Well, I'd find a BARBER to buy it, run it, and let y'all still do your thang in it, how about that?

No, seriously, as a fundraiser I have JUST the thing. It's baesed on something people in lotsa places have done as a nonprofit's major annual fundraiser.

Set it up with all sorts of afvance PR that each of you blues folks are gonna be arrested and thrown in the pokey. (Make up crimes based on blues songs.) The idea is to raise bail money.

You'll need a jail, and a barbershop could make a GREAT jail especially if it has a nice display window. Or it can be a cell made out of closet-rod dowels set up on Main Street (need a permit).

On Jail Day each of you gets publicly arrested by the Sherriff (a cushy job that goes to the highest bidder), and with much fanfare yore ass is hauled away. In the jail of course you play nonstop blues music for the 12 hours of the fundraiser, to pass the time-- that's the concert, and you can sell "jail passes" to folks to be let in, frisked, and escorted to a hard bench seat. Acourse you will need to raffle off some prison-guard jobs too and let them have fun policing the cellblock.

People can be re-arrested multiple times and re-bailed multiple times.

Bail money entitles the contributor to a digital mug shot, and a compilation CD (homemade) of the jailhouse concert.

I want ten percent.

You can also sell the jailhouse grub concession to a partnering nonprofit group, to cook for the inmates as well as all the folks who will surely enjoy coming by to pay a buck or more to gawk and mock the inmates.

And costumes-- you will all need costumes.

~Susan