BlueRidgeNow.com
Sep 17, 2007
Chrissie Hynde Sings at Ohio
Benefit
The Associated
Press
AKRON, Ohio Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees
Chrissie Hynde and Jerry Lee Lewis performed at a concert to benefit a local
theater and celebrate the upcoming opening of Hynde's vegetarian
restaurant.
Hynde, an Akron native and the lead singer of The Pretenders,
presided over a weekend-long celebration of VegiTerranean, her eatery that will
feature a blend of Mediterranean and vegetarian cuisine when it opens here in
October.
The events started with a Friday night acoustic performance,
continued Saturday afternoon with the restaurant's ribbon-cutting ceremony and
ended Saturday night with the concert.
Hynde handed out bean salsa and
other hors d'oeuvres from a silver platter at the ribbon-cutting
ceremony.
"Save animals and stop all of the violence," she told those
gathered at the ceremony.
Proceeds from the concert benefited the Akron
Civic Theatre. Hynde lives in England and will partner with Dan Duplain, owner
of Fedeli restaurant in downtown Canton, to operate the eatery.