There's a broke musician in town who hit the ditch on a treacherous part of B.C.'s highways - everyone's OK but the vehicle is damaged. To get the car fixed Dawn Boudreau's going to do what she does best.
She's going to sing.
When she told her musician friends what happened, many volunteered their own talent for the cause.
Dawn Boudreau & Friends will take to the stage Friday at Art Space, above Books & Co., 1685 Third Avenue from 9 to 11:30 p.m., with all proceeds of the evening going toward the $1,500 bill to get the car fixed.
"I was going to do a show anyway," said Boudreau. "I don't have that kind of extra money. So I hid under my blankets and cried for a half an hour and then I came out from the blankets - what else does a person like me do in this situation? This is what I have. I have music and I have friends who make music."
Max Jones, Jose Delgage-Guevara, Raghu Lokanathan and Isaac Smeele will perform while Jim Brinkman owner of Art Space, donated the venue.
Boudreau's two sons and her cat were with her in the accident but after the muscle soreness went away and the cat calmed down, it's all good, she said.
Even some of her students wanted to perform but it's a cabaret-style setting, later in the evening, so she restricted the performers to her young-adult students.
"When I perform it will be a lot of my originals and a couple of covers - but mostly my new originals and then there's the other performers. I've got two students doing a duet of Love the Way You Lie Part II, the Rihanna-Emenim song, which is really cute because the one girl breaks out the rap. Erika Calleweart and Caitlyn Macaulay will be performing that."
Some of the artists will get together and perform as well as do solo pieces.
"So it's going to be like a big kind of jam session, a schmozzle of different styles and talent, but I think it'll be really fun," said Boudreau. "We hope lots of people come. It's going to be great."
Admission is by donation.
