Fundraiser will benefit musician, chef Albert Kim
by Ryan McDonald Every Friday night for the better part of the previous decade, the Scott Whyte Band could be heard at Sharks Cove, a sports bar and restaurant on Manhattan Beach Boulevard. It’s been a few years since they’ve played as a group, but on Jan. 19, the band will get back together as part of a fundraiser for a worthy cause: the recovery of their bassist, Albert Kim. Kim, a fixture in the South Bay music and restaurant scenes, suffered a brain hemorrhage in February 2022 and spent two months at Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center in Torrance. Many in his condition die before they reach the hospital, yet Kim made a miraculous recovery. But the trauma of the hemorrhage, which involved blood building up inside the cranium and squeezing Kim’s brain against his skull, and a lengthy hospital stay, left Kim in need of significant rehabilitation, and facing towering medical bills. Next week’s fundraiser will take place at the Strand House in downtown Manhattan Beach. Half of the evening’s take at the bar, along with the proceeds from a silent auction, will go toward Kim’s recovery. More than a dozen South Bay musicians will perform, including Jeremy Buck, Dani…
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