“Free the Midwives,” a musical benefit for the Alabama Birth Coalition, an organization working to increase access to out-of-hospital maternity care for Alabama women, will take place at Bottletree Café, Sun., July 12, at 4 p.m. The performers are Vulture Whale, 13ghosts, Duquette Johnston, John Jeremiah Sullivan and Kate Taylor. Doors open at 3 p.m. Admission is $10. For information, call (205) 873-1332 or go to www.alabamabirthcoalition.com. The benefit kicks off PushSummit 2009, a national midwifery conference being held at the Highland Conference Center in Birmingham July 12-15. For more information about the conference, go to www.thebigpushformidwives.org
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