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A Christmas Day World Record for Charity
In an urgent appeal to help families in need, Danny Kastner will create personalized Holiday Request Song Videos on YouTube for 100 donors on Christmas Day. The families, nominated by participating Boys and Girls Clubs across the US, will benefit in the New Year through donations on crowdfunding site Indiegogo. Kastner, once known as the Troubadour ...
Jazz Guitarist Pat Metheny Provides Soundtrack For Cancer Support Community Of Philadelphia’s Holiday e-Card
PHILADELPHIA, PA: Pat Metheny, legendary jazz guitarist perhaps best known for his work with the Pat Metheny Group, and 19 GRAMMY awards (with the possibility of a 20th for his recent Unity Band release), has stepped up to help the Cancer Support Community of Philadelphia (CSCP) by providing the music for the organization’s 2012 electronic holiday ...
Global Noize Donates Proceeds to Support Hurricane Sandy Victims
Global Noize the jazz/funk/world/groove band comprised of Jason Miles, DJ Logic, Falu, Jay Rodriguez and Amanda Ruzza are keeping the Global Spirit alive by donating all of the proceeds from their new song “Dreams" to benefit the families and business's devastated by super storm Sandy. Miles states, “There is so much pain, suffering and loss that ...
Disaster relief service at The Paramount in downtown Huntington, Long Island, NY
The Paramount is providing disaster relief services for Hurricane Sandy victims. The Paramount 370 New York Avenue Huntington, NY 11743 631-673-7300 From The Paramount's Adam Ellis: We are set up to collect food for Long Island Cares daily in the box office from 12p-6p We are hosting a blood drive ...
Singer, Actress Cynthia Basinet Petitions The United Nations
Singer, Actress Cynthia Basinet Petitions the United Nations Sixty-seven General Assembly Fourth Committee on behalf of issues facing the Western Sahara. From the UN official site: CYNTHIA BASINET, a singer, actress and humanitarian, said there was a recent trend “spoken aloud and unabated” asking what percentage of care, value and support was owed to the marginalized. ...
Does UX for Good Know What's Best for New Orleans' Musicians?
UX for Good is a project that takes user experience designers into the field to see how their research and solution-generation skills can be put to use in real world settings. In May they assembled a group of designers in New Orleans for a brief fieldwork investigation followed by presentations of possible solutions to address the ...
Music for Lifelong Achievement (MFLA) Annual Drive for Musical Instruments, Donations to Begin October 1
This year's Music for Lifelong Achievement instrument drive will begin Monday, October 1 and continue through Sunday, November 4. MFLA is a not-for-profit organization based at the Sheldon Concert Hall that donates used and new musical instruments to school and community music programs serving disadvantaged young people. MFLA also raises funds for instrument repair and musical ...
Soundexchange and Bandpage Partner to Help Claim $2 Million in Unpaid Royalties
BandPage and SoundExchange have teamed up to distribute $2 million of unclaimed digital performance royalties to a number of music artists and labels. These royalties are being sent out to BandPage artists who have not yet signed up for SoundExchange, and who are missing out on monies from satellite radio, Internet radio, and digital cable TV plays. BandPage ...
Konbit Mizik Harnesses The Universal Power Of Music To Build Community In Haiti
Konbit – n. Creole. The act of the community coming together to achieve a common purpose or goal. Mizik – n. Creole. Music. Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Konbit Mizik, a not-for-profit recording studio currently based in the streets of Port-au-Prince, uses music to build community and grow community leaders through education, workforce development and artistic expression for Haiti’s ...
Jazzspace and the Pittsburgh Legacy
As reported in these pages, I had the pleasure recently of returning to my birthplace of Pittsburgh, PA to moderate panel discussions and participate in a very rewarding commemorative weekend honoring the rich legacy of that city’s African American Musicians’ Union local. The city is rife with jazz history and has produced an incredible number of ...
