Jamnesty: Local bands support Amnesty

Jamnesty

Featuring music by Kevin Finn, Torn Between Words, 4Foot4, Louie and the… Jamnesty

Featuring music by Kevin Finn, Torn Between Words, 4Foot4, Louie and the Humans, The Copyrights and Universatile

Saturday, 7 p.m.

Pitt’s Graduate School of Public Health Auditorium

$2 to $5 contribution or toiletry donation

This weekend, if 24-hour multi-network news coverage of the war in Iraq has you suffering from a different kind of March madness, why not turn off the television, get up and do something both fun and rewarding.

On Saturday, Pitt’s chapter of the world human rights organization Amnesty International is sponsoring Jamnesty, a concert featuring a cavalcade of local musicians performing to help stop the spread of AIDS across the globe.

The bands performing at Jamnesty are Kevin Finn, Torn Between Words, 4Foot4, Louie and the Humans, The Copyrights and Universatile. Admission costs only a monetary contribution of $2 to $5 or a donation of toothpaste, shampoo, or other toiletry items. In other words, all you’ve got to do to get into the show is break open that 10-pack of toothpaste your mom bought you at the grocery warehouse superstore and come on down.

The show begins at 7 p.m. Saturday, and will take place at the Pitt Graduate School of Public Health Auditorium, situated at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Desoto St., just across from the Litchfield Towers.

All proceeds benefit the Pittsburgh AIDS Task Force, so take some time out of your Saturday to enjoy some good music, and have your awareness raised. Oh yeah, there’s free food, too.