Local live music highlights Union Board's Annual Club Night at Rhino's Youth Center

Live music seems to come with a high price. It is not unheard of for students to spend at least $50 on concert tickets to hear their favorite band. Luckily, IU students have a chance to hear 10 local bands live Thursday night, spend no more than $5 and help feed the hungry.\nUnion Board's Live from Bloomington, a committee that promotes local music and independent artists, is sponsoring Bloomington's 21st Annual Club Night for local music. The annual charity event begins at 8 p.m. Thursday at Rhino's Youth Center, an all-ages venue. In order to benefit Hoosier Hills Food Bank, an organization that collects food to distribute to other agencies, admission is either $5 or $3 with two canned goods. All proceeds will go to benefit the organization. Admission allows participants access to all three venues: Rhino's Youth Center, The Bluebird and Second Story, although participants must be 21 or older to enter The Bluebird and Second Story Nightclub.\n"The whole idea is you can go to three different venues and only pay for one," said Live from Bloomington director Tracy Johnson. "It's almost like a venue crawl for live music. You have the option to see different types of music."\nDifferent bands, all of which are volunteers for the event, will be featured at each venue. At Rhino's Youth Center, bands Husband & Wife, Mobley and Broken Stone will play from 8 to 10:45 p.m. Bluebird will feature the sounds of Muzaic, Trio In Stereo, Stereo Deluxe and Emerson Rose from 10 p.m. to 12:45 a.m. Finally, The Warmth, Lying Dying Liars and 3 Rivers Jackson will be performing from 11 p.m. to 1:45 a.m. at Second Story, according to a press release.\nEven those who are younger than 21 will still be able to listen to bands at Rhino's from 8 to 11 p.m. \n"A lot of people feel excluded because there are two bars," Johnson said. "The thing about Rhino's is it's such a great venue. Since they're not serving alcohol it's almost like if you're really going to go for the music, it's the place you want to be."\nIn addition to the music, Live from Bloomington will be selling Club Night 2006 T-shirts for $8 as well as CDs for $6 featuring many of the artists performing at the event. The money raised from these products will go toward the cause.\nIn previous years, the event has most notably donated thousands of dollars and pounds of food for Hoosier Hills Food Bank, but Johnson said the attendance and amount of food donated has declined in recent years.\n"Over the years, with more organizations and lack of places to get the word out, it's been a little bit more difficult," she said. "It used to be a huge deal. In 1996, we were on the cover of Billboard magazine for the event; 15,000 pounds of food were donated," she said.\nJohnson said she is hoping to see more people show up this year. s just a really great cause. It's about local music as well, but the biggest part of it is that we get to donate money to Hoosier Hills because (hunger) is such a big problem in this area."\nBenefiting the music scene as well as an important local organization, Club Night allows music lovers to come and get a taste of local music.\n"You're bound out of 10 bands playing to find one you really enjoy," Johnson said. "It's $5 at the most to go see 10 bands. If you're going to do something great for the community, you might as well get some culture out of it."\nClub Night is being sponsored by the Jacobs School of Music, IUSTV and local businesses. For more information on Union Board events, visit www.imu.indiana.edu/union_board/index.html.