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Youth with Life-threatening Illnesses Meet Bands on Take Action Tour
Youth with Life-threatening Illnesses Meet Bands on Take Action Tour The members of Memphis May Fire with Taylor, enjoying her dream courtesy of Living The Dream Foundation — photo: LTDF's Instagram.The 13th annual Take Action Tour, headlined by Christian metalcore band Memphis May Fire, has kicked off in the U.S. and hits 19 cities through April 4.…
Robert Downey Jr. Wants To ‘Awesome The Crap Out of You’ For Charity
Robert Downey Jr. Wants To ‘Awesome The Crap Out of You’ For Charity Robert Downey Jr. wants you to donate — photo credit: Omaze.“Hi, honey-bunnies. Quick question: have you had the best night of your life? Ever? On Earth? Yet? Well, you could. With me. For a good cause.” That is how Avengers: Age of Ultron star Robert Downey Jr. begins his YouTube video…
Singer Lights' Own Flavour & All Menchie’s Frozen Yogurt Sold March 11 Benefit MusiCounts
Singer Lights' Own Flavour & All Menchie’s Frozen Yogurt Sold March 11 Benefit MusiCounts For the past month, Juno Award-winning synth-pop singer Lights has had her own Menchie’s Frozen Yogurt, a cookie dough base called Up We Dough, a play on the title of her gold hit single, “Up We Go,” from her latest album, Little Machines. Tomorrow, March…
Country Singer Gord Bamford Gives Away $10,000 Seven Times On Tour
Country Singer Gord Bamford Gives Away $10,000 Seven Times On Tour Kids at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital don paper cowboy hats for singer Gord Bamford's visit, March 6, Toronto — photo credit: Yasmin Soul. While sporting homemade paper cowboy hats, the children at the Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital in Toronto anxiously…
Ex-Mudvayne and Pantera band Hellyeah Wants Blood (For Blood) From Fans
Ex-Mudvayne and Pantera band Hellyeah Wants Blood (For Blood) From Fans Hellyeah singer Chad Grey (hand outstretched) beckons you to give blood — photo credit: Dave Johnson.Hellyeah singer Chad Grey laughs when asked if he plans to give blood after he gets back home after his band’s 23-date North American tour ends March 8 in Atlanta, Ga. The metal group…
It’s Polar Bear Week: All WWF Donations Will Be Matched Up to $130K
It’s Polar Bear Week: All WWF Donations Will Be Matched Up to $130K WWF works to protect the polar bear and its environment — photo courtesy of WWF.The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has declared Feb. 23 to 27 Polar Bear Week in a bid to raise awareness about the arctic animals and their own fundraising for the area. The effort comes in the lead-up to…
George Canyon, Jimmy Rankin and Others Help Tenille Raise $225,000
George Canyon, Jimmy Rankin and Others Help Tenille Raise $225,000 Joining Tenille (front) are Jamie Robinson (guitarist, Jimmy Rankin), Curtis Rempel, Brad Rempel, Adam Gregory, Beverley Mahood, Jimmy Rankin, Patricia Conroy and Kenny Munshaw (pianist, Beverley Mahood) — photo credit: Suzanne Sagmeister. Young country singer Tenille and her musical…
TEDx Talk: Erica Greve Stresses Use of Social Media to Fight Injustice
TEDx Talk: Erica Greve Stresses Use of Social Media to Fight Injustice Erica Greve during her TEDx Talk — photo credit: Bret Simmons.Anti-human trafficking advocate and Unlikely Heroes founder Erica Greve recently gave a TEDx talk at the University of Nevada where she addressed the power of social media to impact injustices worldwide. The impetus for…
Charity Once Used by Bieber’s Family Reaps Funds From His Leafs Love
Charity Once Used by Bieber’s Family Reaps Funds From His Leafs Love Collectively, these four items from Justin Bieber's childhood raised $74,000 for charity — photo credit: Lisa Stanley.An eBay auction of just four of Justin Bieber’s personal belongings from his childhood recently raised $74,000 (CAD) for Stratford House of Blessing in the pop star’s…
Blood Banks Won’t Sanction Women In Horror Month Blood Drive
Blood Banks Won’t Sanction Women In Horror Month Blood Drive Jen and Sylvia Soska on the Give It Up set — photo credit: Bren MacDonald.Horror films and blood go hand-in-hand so mounting a blood drive for the American Red Cross and Canadian Blood Services, or any blood bank worldwide, for that matter, is a no brainer. Jen Soska remembers the first time she…
World Snowman Building Record Broken, Proceeds Benefit Mental Health
World Snowman Building Record Broken, Proceeds Benefit Mental Health 1200 people came out to build snowmen for charity and to break a world record; they succeeded — photo credit: Davey Johnson.Building snowmen is usually considered kids’ stuff, but over 1,200 participants — adults and kids — united on the snowy field at Ottawa’s TD Place Stadium…
Kisses ‘n’ Lipstick Selfies Fun Fast Way To Raise Awareness of HIV
Kisses ‘n’ Lipstick Selfies Fun Fast Way To Raise Awareness of HIV Is your kiss on someone’s list this Valentine’s week, maybe you can spare one or more for Kisses 4 CANFAR. Launched in 2012 by the Canadian Association for AIDS Research (CANFAR), the Kisses 4 CANFAR campaign wants to stamp out the stigma and fear young people attach to discussing HIV and…
Bob Dylan Calls MusiCares a Blessing for 'Red Hot' Billy Lee Riley
Bob Dylan Calls MusiCares a Blessing for 'Red Hot' Billy Lee Riley Bob Dylan with former President Jimmy Carter and Neil Portnow, president/CEO of The Recording Academy — photo courtesy of The Recording Academy®/WireImage, photo by Michael Kovac © 2015. Bob Dylan’s acceptance speech for MusiCares Person of the Year should be required reading…
Cool Stuff & Rare Experiences on eBay for Grammy Awards Charity Auction
Cool Stuff & Rare Experiences on eBay for Grammy Awards Charity Auction Bid on a chance to meet Florida Georgia Line — photo credit: Kristin BarloweWanna Meet Weird Al or Florida Georgia Line or are you content with a photo of the Rolling Stones and some Taylor Swift or Bruce Springsteen vinyl? Music fans looking to take home a piece of musical…
24-Hour Push: Today is Grammy Foundation Giving Day To Keep Music Alive
24-Hour Push: Today is Grammy Foundation Giving Day To Keep Music Alive GRAMMY Camp kids performing at the Launch Party that concluded GRAMMY Camp Los Angeles this summer at the El Rey Theatre. Courtesy of The Recording Academy®/WireImage.com, photo by Mark Sullivan © 2014 With the 57th Grammy Awards taking place this Sunday (Feb. 8), broadcast live from…