PRESS RELEASE - February 7, 2014 Rick Epting Foundation for the Arts Presents Lydia Pense & Cold Blood At Mt. Vernon’s Historic Lincoln Theatre Saturday March 29, 2014 at 7:30pm Lydia Pense & Cold Blood debuted when the Fillmore was at its peak as one of the nation's musical Meccas. Owner Bill Graham was so impressed with Lydia's voice and the sound of the band that he immediately signed Cold Blood to his new record label. During the span of six original late-60's, early-70's albums, Lydia Pense and Cold Blood helped, along with Tower Of Power, forge their own specific brand of funk/soul and R&B which came to be known as East Bay Grease. That music still holds up today, proving that great music is timeless and will continue to inspire generations to come. Opening for Cold Blood will be local R&B singer The Margaret Wilder Band in their Lincoln Theatre debut. Margaret is a musical sensation and performer with an original fire. The word from LA is that she is “a young Bonnie Raitt meets Marcia Ball,” and this is one musician who actually lives up to the Hollywood buzz. From headlining festivals and playing premier clubs to opening for such heavy hitters as John Lee Hooker Jr., Margaret Wilder has enthralled audiences in the Northwest and Canada. This is a fund-raising event by the Rick Epting Foundation for the Arts to support their mission to keep the arts alive in Skagit Valley. Please come out and support the arts and enjoy a high energy show of funk and R&B done by one of the original East Bay power bands from the Summer of Love in the late 60's and a local R&B songwriter. Rick Epting Foundation for the Arts http://rickeptingfoundation.org/ For tickets visit the Lincoln Theatre's website at http://www.lincolntheatre.org/. .