ActiveMusic and Global Green USA Partner to Raise Funds for Green Rebuilding in New Orleans During the 2007 Jazz & Heritage Festival
ActiveMusic and Global Green USA will hold a fundraising event on May 3rd at the club Republic to benefit Global Green USA’s sustainable rebuilding work in New Orleans.
Artists and musicians participating in this year’s New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival will sign instruments donated by GBME – Gibson Baldwin Music Entertainment. The instruments are to be auctioned off on CharityFolks.com during and after the festival. To cap off the day of support for sustainable rebuilding, Republic will extend an invitation to all artists to participate in a special media event in the most beautiful club in the warehouse district of New Orleans that opened its doors after Katrina to help revive the city. Republic will donate revenues from their door Thursday night, from 10 PM – 2 AM to Global Green.
Benefit Concert and awareness campaign for
Foundation for Women
San Diego – Tentative date February 2007
ActiveMusic in partnership with American Express designate first joint charity for event for 2007 – Foundation for Women, a San Diego non profit providing microcredit to impoverished women both locally and globally. Read More
ActiveMusic to produce benefit concert, reception, and related media activities in support of the Foundation for Women’s launch of its one dollar a day for 100 days campaign to engage 10,000 people and raise 1 million dollars.
Benefit Concert and campaign for Global Green
Los Angeles – Dates to be confirmed
ActiveMusic and Global Green are partnering to raise funds and awareness for the “Rebuild New Orleans” project – events will include a benefit concert, an online celebrity auction in collaboration with Charity Folks, and an issue awareness campaign. Read More
ActiveMusic online store launched in time for the holidays
In August ActiveMusic in partnership with Charity Folks organized an online auction for the New Orleans Musicians Clinic with Charity Folks. It raised additional funds for the grassroots clinic by auctioning guitars and posters autographed by Bruce Springsteen and the Seeger Sessions Band, Dave Matthews Band, Keith Urban and Bob Weir. The guitars were donated by Gibson, Alvarez, and Evan’s Music City (Houston, Texas). Read More
In June ActiveMusic and Alan Ames and Associates produced a benefit concert the “Houston Solution for Hurricane Relief” with the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Johnette Napolitano, Carolyn Wonderland hosted by Kinky Friedman and benefiting the New Orleans Musicians Clinic, The Children’s Museum of Houston, and the Houston Society for the Performing Arts music programs. The concert was filmed and recorded for release on HDNet and will be available on CD and DVD with the bulk of proceeds being donated to the non profits involved. Read More
In June 2006, ActiveMusic and SONY-BMG released the long awaited DVD for “Not in our Name” Dead Man Walking – The Concert as part of a special collectors edition combined DVD/CD package with the re-release of the soundtrack from the original motion picture. All of the net proceeds from sales of the DVD/CD through the ActiveMusic online store go to non profits with 85% going directly to the Death Penalty Discourse Center and Murder Victims Families for Human Rights. Royalties from the commcerical sales of the DVD/CD package will also be directed to the benefit of the anti death penalty non profits and artists involved. Read More
In December 2005 - A live concert and artist reception in the Bay Area for Hurricane Katrina Relief hosted by Maria Muldaur and featuring Bonnie Raitt, Roy Rogers, Norton Buffalo, Rambling Jack Elliot, and special guests. The event took place on December 19th 2005 at the Throckmorton Theater in Mill Valley. Proceeds from the live concert and reception benefited the New Orleans Musicians Clinic
In November 2005 - A benefit Golden Circle meet and greet reception featuring Bonnie Raitt, which took place on November 16th 2005 in Oakland, California at the Paramount Theater. Proceeds from the ticket sales and reception went to the Vote Solar Initiative and Rainforest Action Network
Active Music Fundraiser
May 27, 2004
San Francisco Chronicle
by Leah Garchik Fundraising Event Produced by ActiveMusic to Benefit ActiveMusic
"P.S. ActiveMusic's fund-raiser in Mill Valley last week, at which Bonnie Raitt, Roy
Rogers, Dick Bright, Dan Hicks and Norton Buffalo performed, was a chance for some
beneficiaries to return the favor. The organization "partners'' musicians with issues.
Among the grateful speakers at its own fund- raiser was Julia Butterfly Hill, whose
cause has benefited from fund-raisers at which ActiveMusicians performed."
October 27, 2003
Daily News (New York)
by Dakota Smith Media Coverage by ActiveMusic to Benefit Little Kids Rock
"Bringing guitars to public schools is the aim of Little Kids Rock, which is taught in
10 schools across the city. Thanks to recent grants and donations, the program will soon
launch in 40 more schools.
Wish, a 36-year-old former elementary school teacher, started the program
in 1996 in San Francisco after realizing there was a lack of music instruction in
public schools. What programs did exist were limited to teaching kids yawn-inducing
nursery rhymes like "Hot Cross Buns" or classical music, and guitar instruction was
often passed over in favor of teaching more traditional instruments, such as clarinet
or violin.
'Most music programs are teaching the same songs they taught 50 years ago,'
says Wish, who moved to Montclair, N.J., last year to set up Little Kids Rock programs
in New York. 'It's no wonder that kids get bored and give up an instrument.'"
October 23, 2003
San Francisco Chronicle
by Joel Selvin Media Event Produced by ActiveMusic to Benefit Little Kids Rock
"Raitt inveigled her old pal Tom Waits to join her on piano and sing a duet of "Sweet
and Shiny Eyes," a song they knew from touring together a few years back when Jerry
Ford was still president. Former Metallica bassist Jason Newsted, currently playing
with Ozzy Osbourne, picked up his bass, and Norton Buffalo added a little harmonica.
They were all sitting in a circle in the Russian Hill school cafeteria
Tuesday afternoon, swapping songs with the music students, beneficiaries of a program
called Little Kids Rock that brings music instruction to elementary schools in four
states. While TV news, radio reporters and photographers recorded the session,
Little Kids Rock Executive Director David Wish, a former Redwood City second-grade
teacher, led the second-, third-, fourth- and fifth- graders in writing a song,
while the professional rock musicians backed them up."
