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Simple Plan Donates $10,000 To Help Fort McMurray Fire Victims

Simple Plan Donates $10,000 To Help Fort McMurray Fire Victims Canadian rock band Simple Plan is stepping up to help those displaced by the wildfires raging in and around Fort McMurray, Alberta, by donating $10,000 to the Canadian Red Cross' Alberta Fire Appeal and encouraging its fans to contribute as well. Donations to the Canadian Red Cross Alberta…

Smooth-Faced Simple Plan Get Limited Edition Kiehl's Cream For Charity

Smooth-Faced Simple Plan Get Limited Edition Kiehl's Cream For Charity Simple Plan (sans drummer) perform acoustically at a private concert for Kiehl's ticket winners, 2014 — photo credit: George Pimentel. Facial moisturizer isn’t a typical fundraising item for an all-male rock band, but Montreal’s Simple Plan gladly teamed with cosmetic company…

Billy Talent To Co-Design T-shirt For Bluenotes Kids Help Phone Campaign

Billy Talent To Co-Design T-shirt For Bluenotes Kids Help Phone Campaign Toronto rock act Billy Talent is next in line to create a graphic t-shirt for Bluenotes clothing retailer to benefit Kids Help Phone. The shirt is due in stores and online the first week of October. “We sent some ideas to them and we’re going to collaborate,” guitarist Ian D’Sa told…

Simple Plan Accept Humanitarian Award, Release Fan-Felt Video

Simple Plan Accept Humanitarian Award, Release Fan-Felt Video Chuck Comeau; Evenko's Nick Farkas; Coalition Management's Eric Lawrence; Pierre Bouvier holding the Allan Slaight Humanitarian Spirit Award; Sébastien Lefebvre; Jeff Stinco (missing from pic, David Desrosiers) — photo credit: Luther Mallory"Simple Plan have taken a leadership role not only by…

Simple Plan's Humanitarian Legacy

Simple Plan's Humanitarian Legacy (L to R) Simple Plan's Sébastien Lefebvre, Pierre Bouvier and Chuck Comeau visit a fan at a hospital in Montreal.At what age will you think about your legacy? For drummer Chuck Comeau of multi-platinum-selling pop-punkers Simple Plan, it started at 26. That’s how old he was when he and his bandmates — frontman Pierre…

Simple Plan Book Another Charity Venture

Simple Plan Book Another Charity Venture Simple Plan (photo credit: Sim Klugerman)There is not a lot pop-rock band Simple Plan does these days that doesn’t involve charity from its latest involvement in Kids Help Phone’s True Colors anti-bullying campaign to last week’s benefit luncheon for The Simple Plan Foundation. Now, the Montreal five-piece — and…

Bluenotes Release Anti-Bullying T-Shirt With Simple Plan, Hedley & More

Bluenotes Release Anti-Bullying T-Shirt With Simple Plan, Hedley & More Canadian denim retailer Bluenotes will be selling a $10 fundraising t-shirt for Kids Help Phone, as of Monday (Nov. 19). Emblazoned on the back are the words “Artists against loneliness, hate, bullying, anger, suffering” and the names of the Canadian musicians involved in the anti…

Simple Plan Hopes Humanitarian Award Will Make A Big Impact

Simple Plan Hopes Humanitarian Award Will Make A Big Impact Simple Plan performs acoustically at MAA benefit lunch — Photo credit: Steven Campbell and Adrian Diaz. Montreal pop-rock band Simple Plan, whose eponymous Foundation has made substantial donations over the past seven years to various child and youth related causes, will be honoured with the…

Simple Plan Designs Limited Edition Tees For Kids Help Phone

Simple Plan Designs Limited Edition Tees For Kids Help Phone Earlier this year, Simple Plan sold a limited-edition T-Shirt benefitting The Red Cross’ Japanese earthquake and tsunami relief efforts, and as 2011 draws to a close, the pop-rock band has co-designed another T-shirt with clothing retailer Bluenotes with the proceeds going to Kids Help Phone.…

Coldplay's "Fix You" Re-Cut In Asia By Simple Plan, These Kids Wear Crowns & More

Coldplay's "Fix You" Re-Cut In Asia By Simple Plan, These Kids Wear Crowns & More Canada's These Kids Wear Crowns in a Singapore's Ocean Butterflies Studio record their part of Coldplay's More than 40 artists from all over the world, including Canada’s Simple Plan, These Kids Wear Crowns and Saidah Baba Talibah, cut a charity single of…

Glee Does Good On New Global TV Show

Glee Does Good On New Global TV Show Canada Sings judges — Photo credit: Handout Insight/Global / (L to R) Rob Van Winkle, a.k.a. Vanilla Ice; Jann Arden, Simple Plan's Pierre BouvierThe winner of a new Global Television series will donate $10,000 to the charity of their choice and the runner-up $2000 to their charity.  In Canada Sings, workplace glee…

Pop-Rock Band Simple Plan Selling "Help Japan" T-Shirts For Red Cross Relief Efforts

Pop-Rock Band Simple Plan Selling "Help Japan" T-Shirts For Red Cross Relief Efforts Montreal pop-rock band Simple Plan, whose album sales have topped 7 million copies worldwide, has created a limited-edited T-shirt with all proceeds going to the Red Cross for the Japan earthquake/ Asia Pacific tsunami relief efforts. The band also donated $10,…

Young Artists For Haiti’s “Wavin’ Flag” Single Still No. 1 Download

Young Artists For Haiti’s “Wavin’ Flag” Single Still No. 1 Download Young Artists For Haiti, the Canadian collective of 50+ musicians which covered K’naan’s “Wavin’ Flag” to raise money for the victims of January’s devastating earthquake, remains at No. 1 on the SoundScan Hot Digital Songs chart for the fourth week in a row and has sold 80,000 downloads…