POTSDAM — A rock and roll festival featuring six bands is planned for Sunday, July 31 from 1-8 p.m. at Windy Point Stables, 215 Outer Sissonville Rd., to raise money for Ukraine.

The Rock the Call Benefit Concert for Ukraine is the first in the Sunday Funday, Songs at the Stables series of concerts, and is organized by the band Divided Roads, Sheehan family and Windy Point Stables, and The Purple Hat Foundation.

Marcus Alvarez and company will provide sound production expertise for the event.

Admission is free, but as this is a benefit concert, donations are encouraged and appreciated.

Schedule of Bands:

1-2 p.m. Another Roadside Attraction

2:15-3:15 p.m. Sweet Revenge

3:30-4:30 p.m. The Recov’ry

4:45-5:45 p.m. Forged From The Ashes

6-7 p.m. Jeremy Bar-Illan

7:15-8 p.m. Divided Roads

This is an all-age family event, and a great opportunity to enjoy family, friends, and music in a beautiful riverside setting. Food and drinks will be available on site.

Rosie’s Hawg Dogs and Hoof & Horn will sell food, and The Stables will provide drinks.

Jeremy Bar-Illan is a well-regarded NYC-based guitarist-singer-songwriter-producer. In 2009, he founded, and still serves as Director, of the Purple Hat Foundation, a non-profit organization of musicians who perform for a variety of benefit concerts, said a press release.

Following a chance meeting with Andy Deon in NYC, and as result of their friendship, Divided Roads was invited to play a Rock the Call benefit in NYC in 2019.

In 2022, the band was again invited to play at the August 6 Rock the Call benefit, the first to be held since the COVID pandemic, but had to decline the invitation due to a scheduling conflict with a previously agreed upon benefit in the north country.

As a result, Divided Roads decided to present their own Rock the Call benefit concert on July 31, and Mr. Bar-Illan graciously offered his services in support of the band’s efforts.