Often Awesome The Series

Episode 34 : The Long Goodbye

admin — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:44:51 +0000

Episode 34 : “The Long Goodbye” — Tim and his friends talk about Tim’s decision to not go back to the hospital after his last trip.

Often Awesome The Series is a web series about Tim and Kaylan’s battle with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease). Its a story about love, friends, strength and courage. Join us every month for a new chapter in this amazing adventure.

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October 11, 1979 – August 23, 2011

admin — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 03:51:08 +0000

On Tuesday morning, surrounded by family, friends and caregivers, Tim peacefully passed.

We lost a friend, a husband, a brother, a son, a colleague, a creative genius, a warrior for love and a genuine human being. As much as it saddens us that Tim’s body is no longer on this earth we are content that he chose when to go…not the disease. He is at peace. Pain free. We love you Tim.

Episode 33 : Variety of Awareness

admin — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:42:59 +0000

Episode 33 : “Variety of Awareness” — In 30 days the community hosted three Often Awesome benefit shows in order to help spread awareness and help share Tim’s message of how this is America’s best kept secret disease. Scott Avett of The Avett Brothers intros this episode.

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Episode 32: A Day in the Life

admin — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 18:15:01 +0000

Episode 32: “A Day in the Life” — This episode focuses on the daily routine that Tim lives with. The care that he receives from his wife, friends and nurses. If you ever wanted to know what living with ALS is…this is the one episode to watch.

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Episode 31: From The Heart

admin — Mon, 16 May 2011 15:05:43 +0000

Episode 31 : “From the Heart” — Tim’s friends throw another successful Often Awesome benefit concert featuring 7 bands and screened episode 26 to a full capacity attentive crowd at Greene St Club in Greensboro, North Carolina.

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Episode 30 : King of Pop

admin — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:06:20 +0000

Episode 30 : “King of Pop” — Tim’s passion for Pop music comes alive with his friend Catie Braly in his long awaited album debut of The Popovers. Take a journey through Tim’s musical past and discover what all his friends knew about his musical genius.

Download The Popovers album for free here

Often Awesome The Series is a web series about Tim and Kaylan’s battle with ALS. Its a story about love, friends, strength and courage. Join us every two weeks for a new chapter in this amazing adventure.

For more information about Tim and Kaylan’s fight and to help them please visit : http://oftenawesome.org

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The Often Awesome Benefit: A Year to Remember – Live at Kings Barcade

admin — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 23:36:17 +0000

The Often Awesome Benefit: A Year to Remember

Models for Charity & Often Awesome The Series present The Often Awesome Benefit: A Year to Remember, March 17th, at Kings Barcade in Raleigh. Doors Open at 7:30 p.m. & the show starts at 8:00p.m. Cost $10. Door Proceeds will go to the The Often Awesome Org. Along with six prodigious music sets from a variety of local talent, we will be showcasing an episode from the award winning film retrospective by Often Awesome The Series.

ALL Ages Show!

www.modelsforcharityraleigh.com/

Often Awesome The Series is a web series about local musician Tim Lafollette and his wife Kaylan’s battle with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease). It’s a story about love, friends, strength, and courage. It’s about building a community of friends and family, and creating and spreading awareness through benefit shows, web episodes, and encouraging everyday people to step up and be a part of the Often Awesome Army to help find a cure. OA the series has won Most Outstanding Documentary Web Series LA Web Fest 2010, & was an Official Selection at the 2010 Carrboro Film Festival, & Official Selection at the 2011 LA Web Festival.

Band Lineup for The Often Awesome Benefit: A Year to Remember includes:

Johnny Paul Jason, the songwriting team from Raleigh NC’s The Hanks (1987 – 2008). As with The Hanks some 24 years ago, this band continues what was then the pioneering alt.country / cowpunk sounds that predated the No Depression / Uncle Tupelo / Whiskeytown bandwagon by several years.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Johnny-Paul-Jason/114365968604440

“Reese McHenry has a voice that can rattle chandeliers at 50 paces. Not just with power but with the bluesy depth of Big Mama Thornton, where everything she sings sounds a little, well, dirty.” –Fuse “This is terrifically uninhibited garage rock with currents of blues and stoner metal bubbling beneath the surface.” -Razorcake
http://www.myspace.com/reesemchenry

The Breaks line up works as an uptight four piece: Brunson Hoole on drums, Tray Batson on bass, Steve Carr on guitar and John Ensslin singing. Influences include Tubeway Army, Mott the Hoople.
http://www.myspace.com/thebreaksnorthcarolina

SPIRALFIRE, Sinclair Vernon – the North Carolina native with a voice that can simultaneously melt your heart and peel paint off a jet engine – put together a band of raucous villains wielding rock and roll implements for the sole purpose of destroying pap and returning rock to its rightful, glorious, epic place in popular music.
www.reverbnation.com/spiralfire

Bustello’s sound has recently been described as a blend of Stiff Records power pop and ’60s garage, with ample shades of surf and rockabilly. Members include Ben Clarke, formerly of the highly influential “Metal Flake Mother;” bassist John Plymale, the Indy record producer of Superchunk, Dex Romweber Duo, and The Meat Puppets; & Drummer Jody Maxwell (along with Plymale) a founding member of NC’s “Sex Police” as well as Chapel Hill mainstay “Gumption.”
http://www.bustello.com/

Poster/graphic design by http://www.tadpoledesigns.com/

A BIG thankyou to Riley Miller of SPIRALFIRE for agreeing to be our Master of Ceremonies & Stage Manager.

Episode 29 : We Love Purrrlesque

admin — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:40:09 +0000

Episode 29 : “We Love Purrrlesque” — Purrrlesque, the Burlesque collection of performing artists came together to throw an ALS awareness benefit show at the Triad Upstage Cabaret in Greensboro, NC to raise money for Tim’s quality of life care.

For more information about Tim and Kaylan’s fight and to help them please visit : http://oftenawesome.org

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OFTEN AWESOME BENEFIT CONCERT -Live at Greene Street Club

admin — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 18:51:40 +0000

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Sunday
March 6th

Greene Street Club
113 N. Greene Street
Greensboro, NC, 27401

Often Awesome Benefit Concert featuring…

SPECIAL SURPRISE HEADLINER
Jonas Sees In Color
w/ Decoration Ghost
The Lake Isle
Funny Like A Funeral
The Kitchen Sink Fiasco
Caitlin Watkins

Doors 6:30pm
Show 7:00pm

Learn about Tim LaFollette & the Often Awesome Army by visiting oftenawesome.org

Donations & volunteers appreciated. Please contact:
progressiveshows@gmail.com

Advance: $10.00
Day Of: $10.00
All Ages
(*$2 surcharge for under 21 payable at the door)

Presented by Progressive Music Group

PLEASE INVITE ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS!
WE APPRECIATE YOUR HELP AND EFFORTS.

Lou Gehrig’s Disease (ALS): Progress and Promise in Stem Cell Research

admin — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 12:09:16 +0000