Primus and Tool members Danny Carey and Justin Chancellor are set to host an intimate profit live performance at The Belasco in Los Angeles on April 17 in assist of the group’s “close friend, film director, screenwriter, and animator Jimmy Hayward, who is currently undergoing cancer treatment,”
Tickets for the profit live performance are on sale now and the present may also embrace some shock particular company.
Hayward has had an intensive profession within the animation business, having notably labored on Pixar movies together with Monsters Inc., Toy Story, and Finding Nemo, alongside directing his personal options resembling Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who!, and Free Bird.
“Every now and again cancer steps into our world and pulverizes the lives of people that are dear to us,” Primus frontman Les Claypool displays in a press assertion.
“Such a thing happened a while back with our good friend Jimmy Hayward. Over the past couple years, Jimmy has undergone many major surgeries to remove and then reconstruct major damage from a cancer that invaded his bones. With a wife and two very young children at hand, Jimmy has shown incredible courage and tenacity in an unbelievably challenging time.”
He continues, “It is at this time that we in Primus and some of Jimmy’s good friends in the music and entertainment world have decided to give a ‘brother a hand,’ and do a live performance in his honor and for the benefit of his family. Please come down and witness a one-time collaborative music event in celebration of our good friend.”
Claypool will proceed to carry out this summer season together with his group Fearless Flying Frog Brigade, who’ve reunited for the primary time in 20 years. Their 41-date Summer of Green tour will kick off in Stateline, Nevada on May seventeenth.
Recently, the band additionally launched their first new music in additional than 5 years, the three-song Conspiranoid EP, which is out now through ATO Records.
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