GuitarPLYR
04-28-2006, 12:44 PM
How cool is this?!!!
Dave Matthews Band Donates $1.5 million For New Orleans
Dave Matthews Band has issued a challenge to other artists, donating $1.5 million dollars to the New Orleans Habitat Musicians’ Village, in what is being described as a ‘challenge grant’.
The Village is associated with Habitat for Humanity International, an organisation dedicated to removing poverty housing. Since 1976, Habitat has built more than 200,000 homes in nearly 100 countries.
The New Orleans project seeks to build more than 300 homes in the devastated city’s Upper Ninth Ward. New Orleans musician Harry Connick Jnr said, “Dave Matthews Band represents the kind of leadership it will take to bring back New Orleans. Music is the essence of New Orleans and we adamantly refuse to surrender it to the wind and water. And now fellow musicians like Dave Matthews Band and others are helping us make sure that doesn't happen.”
The money was raised after the band organised a benefit concert in Denver, which also featured The Neville Brothers and John Butler Trio. “We want to thank the Denver community for making this grant possible,” said Dave Matthews Band. “Many people donated their time and resources to keep costs to a minimum so we could maximise the donation. The recovery in New Orleans is moving very slowly. This is our way to get the word out that there is more work to do, and ask people to step up to the challenge and make a donation to help.”
Dave Matthews Band Donates $1.5 million For New Orleans
Dave Matthews Band has issued a challenge to other artists, donating $1.5 million dollars to the New Orleans Habitat Musicians’ Village, in what is being described as a ‘challenge grant’.
The Village is associated with Habitat for Humanity International, an organisation dedicated to removing poverty housing. Since 1976, Habitat has built more than 200,000 homes in nearly 100 countries.
The New Orleans project seeks to build more than 300 homes in the devastated city’s Upper Ninth Ward. New Orleans musician Harry Connick Jnr said, “Dave Matthews Band represents the kind of leadership it will take to bring back New Orleans. Music is the essence of New Orleans and we adamantly refuse to surrender it to the wind and water. And now fellow musicians like Dave Matthews Band and others are helping us make sure that doesn't happen.”
The money was raised after the band organised a benefit concert in Denver, which also featured The Neville Brothers and John Butler Trio. “We want to thank the Denver community for making this grant possible,” said Dave Matthews Band. “Many people donated their time and resources to keep costs to a minimum so we could maximise the donation. The recovery in New Orleans is moving very slowly. This is our way to get the word out that there is more work to do, and ask people to step up to the challenge and make a donation to help.”