Donate to Diamond Cuts Project

Alternatively, you can mail us a check at: Hungry For Music 2020 Pennsylvania Ave, NW No 384 Washington, D.C. 20006

Just like before, all donations will receive a code for a free music download!
Please follow through on your pledges, and please help us raise the last $1,500 so that we can create and release the new album! Thank you!

Free Download With Code! David Kitchen – Genuine Phenomenon (Stephen Strasburg song) Chuck Brodsky – Letter to Harry Jud Caswell – The Amazing Gary Mays Ronny Elliott – 24 to 80 (Willie Mays Song) Peter Cooper – Opening Day * You receive a code when you donate to the Diamond Cuts Project. CLICK HERE if you have a code! *

NEWS RELEASE
SEPT. 12, 2011

Washington-based Hungry for Music, a nonprofit that donates musical instruments to underserved children, has launched a campaign to raise funds for the 12th installment of its popular “Diamond Cuts” collection of baseball songs. This volume, with a nod to Yankees Hall of Fame catcher Yogi Berra, will be entitled “It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over.”

Donate to Diamond Cuts Project

Alternatively, you can mail us a check at: Hungry For Music 2020 Pennsylvania Ave, NW No 384 Washington, D.C. 20006

The fundraiser will allow Hungry for Music to replicate and promote its popular “Diamond Cuts” series. One-hundred percent of the proceeds goes toward the purchase of new musical instruments. More than 5,000 instruments have been delivered to children and community groups across the United States and abroad since Hungry for Music was founded in 1994. Some incentives for donating will include downloads of select songs from the upcoming release, including David Kitchen’s “Phenomenon,” an ode to Washington Nationals pitcher Stephen Strasburg. Incentives increase with the size of the pledge, and will include CDs, tickets to a 2012 George Winston concert, and VIP membership to the Baseball Hall of Fame (which includes tour).

Supporters also can participate by voting on the final song selected (among three songs) for the “It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over” starting lineup.

Vote For Your Favorite Songs Here
Last year, Hungry for Music donated more than 500 musical instruments, a record. Recipients in 2011 have included the Junior Appalachian Musicians, the Intonation Workshop in Chicago, Roots of Music and Trumpets Not Guns in New Orleans, Bridges Across Borders in Mexico, and public school music programs in Austin, Texas, and Tucson, Ariz. In the Washington area, donations have gone to the Nannie J. Lee Recreation Center in Alexandria, Takoma Park Elementary School, the Homeless Children’s Playtime Project in the District of Columbia, and to scores of individuals.

“We are committed to showing that music is a truly unique force capable of bringing people from diverse backgrounds and cultures together,” said Jeff Campbell, the charity’s founder and director. “By donating something as small as a flute or a trumpet (or a cash donation of any amount), you will be helping us improve lives through the healing power of music.”

Since 1997, almost 300 baseball songs have been released on the “Diamond Cuts” series, described by The New York Times as “a who’s who of baseball songs.” In addition to pianist George Winston, who has composed a song for each release, artists Bruce Springsteen, Garrison Keillor and Paul Simon have contributed, as well as a who’s-who of Washington Area Music Association award winners. “Diamond Cuts” has been featured on National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition” and Bob Edwards’ XM Radio show. Campbell’s idea was to produce and release CDs to help fund the upstart organization and to create unique music projects that would promote the organization’s mission and outreach and involve various musicians and music communities.

Hungry for Music’s other CDs have themes of Christmas, Chanukkah and angels, as well as artist tributes.

“It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over” will feature more than 25 songs celebrating the national pastime. In addition to “Phenomenon,” songs available via download to all Diamond Cuts supporters are “Letter to Harry,” by Chuck Brodsky (another every “Diamond Cuts” artist known for his baseball story songs); “Opening Day,” by Peter Cooper; the Willie Mays song “24 to 80,” by Ronny Elliott; and “The Amazin’ Gary Mays,” by Jud Caswell (lyrics by Erik Balkey) The songs competing via votes for a spot on the new Diamond Cuts CD are “I Married a Cubs Fan,”
by Michael “Supe” Granda; “Mickey Mantle,” by A.J. Gundell (lyrics by Len Handler); and “Play Ball!”, by Annie Wenz, with Bill “Spaceman” Lee.

The sampler will feature some of the highlights from the previous 11 collections and will be distributed to all major and minor league ballparks, as well as select college teams.

Supporters of the Diamond Cuts Project also can keep up to date on Facebook.

Donation | Item Donated
$20 cowbell/percussion
$75 acoustic guitar
$100 violin
$150 electric guitar
$200 electric bass

Join Hungry for Music and Sister Cities in supporting Morazan, E

cowbell/percussion $20.00 acoustic guitar $75.00 violin $100.00 electric guitar $150.00 electric bass $200.00

Hungry for Music and Montgomery County Sister Cities have joined to provide musical instruments for the youth of Morazan, El Salvador – the first sister city in a county program that hopes to expand to cities throughout the world. With the help of Hungry for Music, a Takoma Park-based charity that donates musical instruments to underserved children, the mission is to raise $2,500 to purchase instruments through a vendor in El Salvador and support a city youth development program and boost the local economy. The fundraising drive, which began July 1, will run through July 25.

“Montgomery County’s Sister Cities program will help to enrich our community by building relationships around the world to promote cultural, educational and economic development opportunities,” County Executive Ike Leggett said.

During a 2010 trip to Morazan, a Montgomery County Sister Cities delegation toured a newly built House of Culture community center in Perquin. The city’s mayor asked the delegation for musical instruments to create an out-of-school music program. The delegation later decided this request was one they would fulfill first. Delegation member Bruce Adams, director of the county’s Office of Community Partnerships and founder of the Bethesda Big Train baseball team, had worked with Hungry for Music founder and director Jeff Campbell and turned to him that charity, which has donated more than 5,000 instruments to youth across the United States and abroad. In this case, the instruments will be purchased in El Salvador, working with businesses there to supply and transport them.

You can support the campaign by buying a raffle ticket for a First Act electric guitar (valued at $2,000) at Bethesda Big Train games or Strathmore Summer Concert Series shows. Donations also can be made online at www.hungryformusic.org.

Here’s is what a typical donation could buy for Perquin’s House of Culture: $20, cowbell/percussion; $75, acoustic guitar; $100, violin; $150, electric guitar, $200 electric bass, $200.

During the last week in July, Leggett, former U.S. Rep. Connie Morella, Delegate Ana Sol Gutierrez and County Council member George Leventhal are leading a 65-person delegation to return to Morazan, a rural department (the equivalent of a state) in eastern El Salvador, formalize the Sister City relationship.(Is this correct?? A check for musical instruments will be presented at that time.

The independent, nonprofit Montgomery County Sister Cities Inc., chaired by former Town of Chevy Chase mayor Bill Hudnut, was established to connect the county to the world by encouraging and fostering friendship, partnership and mutual cooperation through educational, cultural, social, economic, humanitarian and charitable exchanges. The organization’s objectives include encouraging the people of Montgomery County and those of similar communities in other nations to acquire information about each other and to understand one another as individuals, as members of their community, as citizens of their country, and as part of the family of nations. It also hopes to foster a continuing relationship of mutual concern between Montgomery County residents and the people of similar communities in other nations. The Sister Cities group also plans to participate as an organization in the fostering and publicizing of local, state and national programs of international cooperation.

Tickets are $15 advance, $20 at door

Who? Lucky Dub & Elikeh
What? World Dance Party!
Why? benefit Hungry for Music
When? Friday, June 24, 2011, 9 pm til midnight
Where? Torpedo Factory, Old Town Alexandria, VA
How Much? $15 advance, $20 door

World Dance Party

Advance Tickets $15.00

www.elikeh.com
www.luckydub.com

The Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria, Va., and Hungry for Music team up to help young musicians in need with a rocking reggae/Afro-pop World Music Dance Party. The show features two of the Washington area’s favorite festival bands, Elikeh and Lucky Dub, making rare appearances in Alexandria. There will be a cash bar, along with light snacks.

Led by the Togo-born Serge “Massama” Dogo, Elikeh performs its own brand of Afro-pop and -funk. Dogo covers lead vocals and guitar, and his accompanists play guitar, bass, drums, two saxes, trumpet and percussion. The style is a combination of the 70′s Afro-funk and traditional African rhythms. Last year, Elikeh earned Wammies’ World Music nominations for top duo/group, vocalist (Dogo), recording (“Adje! Adje!”) and instrumentalist (Megan Nortrup, on saxophone).

Lucky Dub plays the feel-good and danceable music that stems from reggae, blending in elements of funk, pop, jazz, and world music. Their result is a little like Sublime, but their fresh sound comes from the melting-pot blend of musicians from California, D.C., the Caribbean, West Africa and Russia. The band’s nine core members, led by Gordon Daniels on vocals, guitar and melodica and John Baker on bass, include players on drums, congas, saxophone, trumpet, trombone and keyboards. Since forming in 2008, Lucky Dub has earned Wammies recognition in reggae, and three songs off their debut album “Mindset,” released in April, have won Mid-Atlantic Song Competition and WAMA songwriting awards.

How Much?
Advance: $12 adult/$7 child
At Door: $15 adult/$10 child

http://www.grandsonsJR.com

Children’s Music Concert Ticket(s)

Adult $12.00 Child $7.00

Tickets will not be mailed. Please pick up at door. Thank you!

Workshop + Concert $50.00 Just the Concert (Advance Tickets) $15.00

Tickets will not be mailed.
Please pick up at door.

An original folk/blues troubadour, California-based Peter Case, makes a rare D.C.-area appearance with a concert and songwriting workshop Sunday, March 20, at the Takoma Park City Auditorium. The show, which will benefit the Hungry for Music charity, starts at 7 p.m., and the workshop will run from 4 to 6 p.m.

The workshop fee is $40 or $50 for both the workshop at show. Tickets are available at www.hungryformusic.org or by calling 240-582-6193.

Case’s former bands continue to enjoy rediscovery by rock’s new generations, but it his solo career that his proven to be most enduring, earning him accolades and die-hard fans. His most recent release was last year’s “Wig!” Recorded after open-heart surgery in 2009, the collection of songs is full of electric blues and folk rock — a statement of joy and thanks for good friends and a good life.

For the past 10 years, Case has taught Songwriters Sliderule, a weekly series of workshops at McCabe’s Guitar Studio in Santa Monica, Calif., and at points around the world. In this special edition workshop, Case delves into songs of the Beatles, Bob Dylan and Robert Johnson to see what truths can be gleaned from these masters’ works. He has a way of conveying information about songwriting in a thoroughly encouraging, friendly and sometimes humorous environment, inspiring beginners and experts alike.

Peter Case Concert Ticket(s) | Workshop

Advance Tickets (Just Ticket) $15.00 Advance Ticket + Workshop $50.00

Hungry For Crawfish Boil

What? 16th Hungry for Crawfish Boil (crawfish, corn, potatoes, bread, & beverages)

When? Saturday, May 14, 12 pm – 5 pm

Where? Ft. Hunt Park, Alexandria, VA (off GW Parkway)

Why? Good times and to benefit Hungry for Music

Who? The Grandson’s & Lucky Dub

How Much? $35.00 – what a deal!

Tickets will not be mailed. Please pick up at door. Thank you!

Old Town Alexandria, VA – The Torpedo Factory Art Center and Hungry for Music team up to help young musicians in need with a good old fashioned Louisiana Dance Party, sure to make you happy as a clam in mud! Proceeds from ticket sales will benefit Hungry for Music, a Washington, D.C.-based charity that helps get instruments into the hands of young musicians in need. Musical instrument donations will also be accepted at the door.

LIVE MUSIC BY TWO BANDS
Washington, D.C.-based Squeeze Bayou plays traditional Cajun and zydeco dance music from Southwestern Louisiana. The band specializes in two steps and waltzes, but the music reflects a blend of many styles including country music,

blues and Creole. Most of its material comes from traditional sources and the vocals are sung in Cajun French.

The Junkyard Saints is a Baltimore-based seven-piece band with full horn section performing its own brand of New Orleans-style party music, blending funk, swing, Latin and R&B, with a splash of zydeco. Junkyard Saints has played at some of the most notable venues and festivals in the country including the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, and Fort Lauderdale’s Cajun Crawfish and Riverwalk Blues festivals.

CAJUN DANCE LESSONS
Dance instructors Ben Pagac and Debbie Shaw will be on hand to provide free lessons in the art of swing, cajun and zydeco foot stompin’. The popular dance instructors regularly offer zydeco dance lessons throughout the Washington, D.C. area.

MARDI GRAS GOODIES AND REFRESHMENTS
Guests will enjoy King Cake and there will be Mardi Gras beads for all in celebration of the upcoming Fat Tuesday festivities. Drinks will be plentiful at the cash bar, along with light snacks.

Buddy Holly Ticket(s)

Advance Tickets $15.00 Night of Event (door) $20.00

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