The fifth annual Gram Parsons tribute/benefit, entitled: “Sleepless Nights,” will take place on Saturday, January 17th at the Great American Music Hall, 859 O’Farrell Street, San Francisco. Proceeds from the benefit will go to the Haight/Ashbury Free Clinic. The line up includes Northern Lights CA (this years headliner featuring ex-memebers of Red Krayola, Beachwood Sparks, Further, Tim Burgess band), Chuck Prophet & Stephanie Finch, The Shore, Sin City All Stars (L.A. Country-Rock session players), Fojimoto, Dave Gleason’s Wasted Days (with special guest Joe Goldmark on Pedal Steel), Bart Davenport, and Eric Shea (show opener).

Eric Shea (Parchman Farm’s lead singer and former lead singer of Mover) organized and founded Sleepless Nights five years ago. “I got the concept for the benefit/tribute by default. I was trying to get a hold of the people who throw the Cosmic American Music Festival at Joshua Tree and never heard back from them, so I just figured I would throw one myself,” explains Shea. Besides paying homage to the late Gram Parsons, the bands participating are helping to support a very worthy cause. “I just thought it would be a good way for musicians to give a little back to an institution that has helped us all,” says Shea.

The Haight/Ashbury Free Clinic was founded by Dr. David E. Smith and began in June 1967. The clinic still continues to provide free, non-judgmental, quality health care to over 50,000 plus patients per year. As always, the clinic is in desperate need of community support, as a result of government funding and grants decreasing while the demand for free, accessible medical service is increasing