"I've got a light. It keeps on shining in my mind.
Day and night. It just keeps burnin' all the time." -
Sean Costello, No Half Steppin'
Event
Summary: The First Annual
Sean Costello Memorial Fund
for Bipolar Research Benefit Concert
Sunday, March 1, 2009 North Atlanta High Center for the Arts
Performers: LURRIE BELL | THE WOOD BROTHERS | KING JOHNSON FELIX AND THE CATS WITH JON LIEBMAN
and EDDIE TIGNER | SOUL SHAKERS
Commentary:
Eddie Tigner, Felix Reyes, Matt
Wauchope, Terrence Prather, Oliver Wood, Paul Linden
Sean Costello Benefit
Family, friends and fans of the late blues recording
artist Sean Costello, braved the snow Sunday to attend the First Annual
Sean Costello Memorial Fund for Bipolar Research Benefit Concert. The
event, held at Costello's alma matter, the North Atlanta High Center
for the Arts, featured an incredible lineup of blues musicians including
Lurrie Bell, The Wood Brothers, King Johnson, Soul Shakers and Felix
and the Cats with Jon Liebman. In addition to great music, there was
also a live auction.
Costello, a blues recording artist praised as one of
the main torch-bearers of the blues flame for the next generation,
passed away in Atlanta, on Tuesday, April 15th, one day before his
29th birthday.
The man who wrote "I've got a light that keeps on
shining" is doing just that thanks to his music and the work of
the fund started by his mother, Debbie Costello Smith. Smith said the
fund's mission is to apply Sean's celebrity and the love of Sean's
fans and fellow musicians to increase research for treatment of Bipolar
Disorder.
