TRURO – The Cape Cod Women’s Music Festival, a benefit concert for the Cape Wellness Collaborative, was a joyful and emotional event on Saturday night at the very cool Payomet Performing Arts Center.
It was our first time attending the music festival and also our first time at Payomet. Wow to both.
The festival as well as the Cape Wellness Collaborative are both the creation of local musician Sara Swain.
The Cape Wellness Collaborative is a nonprofit dedicated to helping Cape Codders who are facing cancer to feel better through integrative therapies, nourishing meals, and emotional support services. There are a lot of great nonprofits on the Cape. This is one of the best.
We were in the second last row at Payomet for the concert. There were many great performances and we had planned to put up a mashup with some music from each. But it turns out that trying to videotape from such a distance with our Cape Cod Wave equipment (Canon G9X) was challenging.
Nevertheless we feel compelled to present this short video, featuring parts of two songs, that gives a sense of the poignancy and energy of the concert. Both feature one of our favorite Cape performers, Sarah Burrill.
Burrill, who is a cancer survivor, played her incredibly moving song about finding out one has cancer, called “Rise Above.”
Everyone knows someone who has died of cancer or has cancer, or both. One lyric hit especially hard: “You stare into space, all dazed and confused, well you don’t choose this road, it chooses you.”
While the concert had many poignant and moving moments, including the opening songs by the Monomoy Middle School choir, there was also a lot of high energy music.
Burrill took the lead on the final song of the night, as all the other performers joined her on stage, for a rousing rendition of Patti Smith’s “People Have The Power.”
To learn more about Cape Cod Wellness Collaborative, including how to donate, click here.
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