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Simple Plan Foundation Has Raised Half A Million For Youth Charities
Simple Plan Foundation Has Raised Half A Million For Youth Charities Simple Plan performs acoustically at MAA benefit lunch / Photo credit: Steven Campbell and Adrian Diaz.Many people get behind causes and charities and musicians are often asked to become spokespeople, "ambassadors" or simply perform at a fundraising event when they reach even a modicum…
Fefe Dobson Calls Domestic Abuse A Silent Cry
Fefe Dobson Calls Domestic Abuse A Silent Cry Fefe Dobson has performed at benefit concerts in support of women’s shelters before and the thought has never left her to one day start her own. The 26-year-old Toronto pop singer has quite a following. The video for her song “Stuttering” has close to four million views on YouTube and “Ghost” two-and-a-half…
Rapper Hopes Autobiographical Song About Sexual Assault, Gun Violence Helps Others
Rapper Hopes Autobiographical Song About Sexual Assault, Gun Violence Helps Others Canadian rapper and recent Juno nominee Eternia has just revealed her innermost secrets through her new song and video, “To The Future,” in support of Kids Help Phone (1-800-668-6868). The song is from her latest album, At Last, on Brooklyn, NY indie label Fatbeats. “It basically tells my personal experiences…
Down With Webster Down For A Cause
Down With Webster Down For A Cause Down With Webster: Tyler Armes, second from leftToronto’s Down With Webster has reached a point where the gold-selling band will start looking for a cause to put its name behind. The seven-piece funky hip hop outfit has already done charity work for War Child Canada and appeared on Free The Children’s We Day event. “…
Sammy Hagar Gives 100 Percent of Profits From Restaurant Chain To Community
Sammy Hagar Gives 100 Percent of Profits From Restaurant Chain To Community After Sammy Hagar sold 80 percent of his Cabo Wabo Tequila business in 2007 to Gruppo Campari for $80 million, the rock singer and his wife started The Hagar Family Foundation, a private non-profit which eliminates much of the red tape that can hamper funds getting quickly to the…
Nikki Sixx Inspires Homeless Youth To Make Music, Take Photos And Become Flacks
Nikki Sixx Inspires Homeless Youth To Make Music, Take Photos And Become Flacks Nikki Sixx’s kids, the product of his generous Running Wild In The Night music program at Covenant House California which serves more than 10,000 homeless youth a year, are making more of the program than even the Mötley Crüe and Sixx: A.M. bassist imagined. In May 2008, Sixx donated $250,000 to the Los Angeles and…
Glee Star Matthew Morrison Wants Legacy of Performing Arts High Schools
Glee Star Matthew Morrison Wants Legacy of Performing Arts High Schools Matthew MorrisonGlee’s leading man Matthew Morrison is now officially juggling two time-consuming careers, one playing high school teacher Will Schuester on the hit musical-comedy television series about a glee club; the other as a recording artist with an album due May 10; the single…
Hannah Georgas Calls Juvenile Diabetes Most important Thing On Her Agenda
Hannah Georgas Calls Juvenile Diabetes Most important Thing On Her Agenda Photo credit: Vanessa HeinsVancouver singer-songwriter Hannah Georgas, and 2011 new artist Juno Award nominee, is hoping to do more with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation once she has more time. Her father passed away in 2009 from the disease. Proceeds from her 2009 EP, The…
Like Oasis, Beady Eye Continues Support of Teenage Cancer Trust
Like Oasis, Beady Eye Continues Support of Teenage Cancer Trust Beady Eye, the new band from former Oasis members, including frontman Liam Gallagher, is continuing its support of a charity that helps young people fight cancer. “We’re behind the Teenage Cancer Trust in the U.K.,” guitarist Andy Bell, who joined Oasis as the bassist in 1999, tells Samaritanmag. “All the band is,” adds Gallagher…
Nicole Atkins Is Involved with Causes Near and Far
Nicole Atkins Is Involved with Causes Near and Far Nicole AtkinsNicole Atkins doesn’t have any sociopolitical songs on her forthcoming album, Mondo Amore — it’s all about her failed relationship — but on the side, when she’s not writing or performing, she gets involved with some causes close to her heart, one near; one far. At home, in her native New…
Shad and Dallas Green Choose Skate4Cancer For EP Proceeds
Shad and Dallas Green Choose Skate4Cancer For EP Proceeds Dallas Green and ShadRapper Shad and singer Dallas Green of Alexisonfire and City and Colour have selected Rob Dyer’s Skate4Cancer charity as the recipient of all profits from the sale of their new collaboration, Shad & Dallas:Two Songs. "I'm inspired by the integrity and compassion that…
INXS' Fortune and Pengilly: Pet Owners Need To Qualify
INXS' Fortune and Pengilly: Pet Owners Need To Qualify INXS singer JD Fortune and guitarist/saxophonist Kirk PengillyKirk Pengilly have some strong views on who should be able to own a pet. “I reckon you should do a driving-style license and go through a rigorous frickin’ psychiatric everything to own an animal; same with a baby because there are so…
INXS Member Promotes Eye Health After Glaucoma Scare
INXS Member Promotes Eye Health After Glaucoma Scare Kirk PengillyKirk Pengill, the bespectacled guitarist/saxophonist of Australian rock group INXS, has been involved with numerous charities over the decades from Greenpeace to Amnesty International. None, however, is more dear to him than The Eye Foundation for which he's an ambassador. “I almost lost…