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What? Musical Visions: Live Music & Art Auction – Saugerties, NY
When? Saturday, May 4
Where? OPUS 40, Saugerties, NY opus40.org
Why? Benefit for Hungry for Music; transformed musical instruments by NY-area artists auctioned to raise money to purchase new musical instruments for HfM’s music instrument donation program.
How much? Donations accepted. Also, HfM will be accepting donations of usable musical instruments at the event.
Music? TBA
Food? provided by several local restaurants, bakeries, and chefs.
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PRESS RELEASE

OPUS 40 TO HOST FUNDRAISER FOR HUNGRY FOR MUSIC
Event will feature auction of artworks created from old musical instruments, live music, and food

SAUGERTIES, NY — A fundraiser for Hungry for Music (HFM), a grassroots, not-for-profit organization that provides free musical instruments to underserved children, will take place on Saturday, May 4, at Opus 40 in Saugerties, from TBA pm. The event, “Musical Visions: Live Music Art Auction,” will feature an exhibition and auction of old musical instruments that have been turned into paintings, sculptures, and assemblages by more than 30 area artists; live music by TBA; and food provided by several local restaurants, bakeries, and chefs.

According to Jeff Campbell, director of Hungry for Music, the volunteer-driven organization’s mission is “to get instruments into the hands of kids who are eager to learn but can’t afford to buy their own.” To that end, the organization—which is based in the District of Columbia—collects donated instruments and has bestowed them upon thousands of underprivileged children all over the United States. The group’s programs are supported through memberships, benefit concerts and events, raffles, and the sale of Hungry for Music–produced CDs.

Although most of the donated instruments quickly find homes, some of them “have exhausted their usefulness,” Campbell says, and these are the instruments that have been given to artists to transform into remarkably striking works of art.

Admission to the Opus 30 event is by donation. Attendees are also welcome to bring old, but still functional musical instruments to donate. The artwork will be sold in a silent auction that will take place during the event.

For more information send us a message.

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Grateful for Music Night! Grateful Dead

Tribute presented by Hungry For Music

November 28 Grateful For Music Night–Grateful Dead tribute night!
The non profit organization Hungry For Music presents a whole night of top Washington DC area talent.

Performers include:
Neil Holcomb, Jimbow, Mac Bollman, EGAD, Chris Lee (of Moogatu), Duffy Kane, Gary Halper, Rob Hornfeck, Bob Kepler, Sol Roots, Geoff Batchedlor, Leah Delano, Jamie Daly, Dan Rigby, Aaron Malander

Event also affiliated with Songwriters Association of Washington.

At Hungry for Music, our mission is to get instruments into the hands of kids who are eager to learn but can’t afford to buy their own. We collect a lot of donated instruments. Some are lightly used. Some never have produced a note of music. But many have exhausted their usefulness – as musical instruments.

We get asked frequently, “What do you do with the instruments that don’t work anymore?”
What if they could be used for something else? It turns out they can. In fact, it turns out they can be transformed into remarkably striking art.

We plan to throw a party with great music, food and drink, and show and sell that art to benefit Hungry for Music. The event will be Nov. 8 at the Gibson Guitar VIP Showroom, 709 G Street NW, Suite 400, in Washington, D.C.

We teamed with local artists Ellyn Weiss and Richard Dana, old friends from our days at the Millennium Arts Studio in Southwest D.C., to find artists to transform old musical instruments into works of art.

Some 20-30 artists will participate. They will create artwork that will be sold in a silent auction that will take place during the event.

Who?
DC artists come together to support Hungry for Music with fundraiser art auction & Bluegrass, Blues, & Jazz trios providing entertainment throughout the evening
First Set – Bob Perilla’s Big Hillbilly Bluegrass
Second Set – Rick Franklin & Charles Solomon Blues
Third Set – Bohemian Caverns Jazz Trio

What?
Musical Visions:
Live Music & Art Auction
Bluegrass/Blues/Jazz & Instruments Altered by Artists

When?
Thursday, November 8
7 pm – 11 pm (doors 6:30)

Where?
Gibson Guitar VIP Showroom
709 G Street, Level 400
Washington, DC

Across from National Portrait Gallery
Door to elevator, next to Redline Restaurant

How Much?
Tickets (option to donate more): $30.00
If you donate $75.00 or more you receive HFM Chanukah or Christmas CD, HFM t-shirt, and an opportunity to win a $5,000.00 guitar.

Tickets available at
http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1227109317/?ref=esfbenivtefor001

Questions? email hungryformusic@att.net

Ticket purchase through eventbrite.com here:

http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1227109317/?ref=esfbenivtefor001#

She was the elementary school counselor for Allegany County, N.C. She also is an avid musician – guitar and fiddle – who frequented the fiddle competitions and music festivals of the mountainous area where she lived. Through her job, she knew every kid in the county, and she knew those kids weren’t attending those events.

So one day, she saw the music teacher in one of her schools showing pictures of instruments to his class to teach them about the instruments. She convinced him to let her bring in some instruments the next week and let the children spend 30 seconds playing the instrument of their choice.

The girl was from a musical family – several of its members had formed a string band years ago, before she was born. She made the most of her 30 seconds. “She hunkered over his bass and began to play,” White said. “She pulled these tones out of it nobody had heard before. The class went silent. Then, it erupted in applause.”

That moment changed Helen White’s life. She determined right then she had to bring this music to these kids. It was theirs after all – their heritage, their tradition, their community. She wasn’t so much looking to create master musicians as to introduce them to the music community of relatively healthy role models and maybe, in some cases, reawaken some dormant DNA.

And that’s how Junior Appalachian Musicians – or JAM – was born. What began with one program in one school has grown to 22 programs in three states that serve more than 900 kids – about 60 percent of whom qualify for free and reduced-cost meals in their schools.

And that’s where Hungry For Music comes in. A few times each year, the Hungry For Music van rolls into Galax, Va., in the far southwestern corner of the state, with instruments to donate to JAM. Fender guitars and banjos are the most common donations, but other instruments are donated as well. White has two new groups – one with 65 kids, another with 80 – and they are growing thanks in part to a large donation of instruments by HFM in May.

Now, one of White’s biggest challenges is to keep groups from hoarding instruments. “It’s a big problem, They want to save instruments so they can improve on what they have,” she said. “So we ask if you don’t use an instrument for a year to please return it so we can it into the hands of someone who will.”
Which meshes nicely with the mission of Hungry For Music, which also seeks to get instruments from people who don’t use them anymore into the hands of people who do.

“We’re trying to get these kids into this big surrogate family, this big community where they can hang out,” White said. “Hungry For Music has been great to us. They call and say, ‘Here’s what we have. What do you need?’ It’s been terrific to be associated with them.”

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