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Help EVERY AVENUE receive health care!

Saturday, March 13th, 2010

You have the opportunity to help Every Avenue with something musicians desperately need: healthcare! ROCK FOR HEALTH is giving you the chance to sponsor your favorite band’s healthcare for one year! Maybe you’ve bought CDs, t-shirts, and traveled far and wide to see them play, but now you can do something unique and personal for Josh, Jimmie, Dave, Dennis, Matt & their road crew!


About RFH:
ROCK FOR HEALTH is a non profit organization that advocates health and preventative care for musicians and their crew members. A population that is better informed about its health care coverage options will be better able to access needed care. RFH will inform musicians on a wide variety of health issues including preventative health services, social, mental and occupational outreach.  Through leadership, communication, and partnerships, RFH is dedicated to the creation of a healthy musical environment in which artists and performers can perform at their peak physical and mental abilities. Without healthy musicians, we will not have music that is created to its highest potential.  Sick artists cannot tour.  RFH wants to make their life and music healthy by helping them address health problems before they escalate into thousands of dollars worth of hospital bills.

Music exists because of the artists creating it. Record labels exist  because of the artists creating that music. The employees of most record labels (everyone from the mail room guys to the CEO) all have health insurance and benefits. Yet – these people all have jobs because of  the artists. The artists see no benefits, no health insurance,  nothing. Musicians are not seen as employees of a record label. They are “temps” – temporary employees – because of the record contract that they sign. They sign their career and lives over to these labels, which help develop it and help it grow. Nine times out of ten, a band will break up or cancel tours due to prevailing health issues.

You’re probably wondering…how can I help?! See the link below, and check out our auction. The winning fan will be improving the lives of an entire band and crew for one year, and in return will receive an absolutely incredible prize pack!

The contest is simple! You will receive one entry to the contest for each $10 donation you give to Every Avenue’s healthcare! ($10 = one entry, $20 = two entries, etc). which covers the band’s monthly healthcare fee for an entire year. Additional proceeds benefit Rock For Health, which is a registered 501c3 non-profit organization.

Every Avenue has catered their own prize pack specific to the winner of their contest.

Prizes Include:
- Two tickets on the band’s guest list for the AP date of the fan’s choosing (excluding dates before 3/24/10).
-A private meet & greet with the band for winner and one friend.
-Signed guitar
-Signed bass drum head
-2 Hoodies
-2 T-shirts
- Both Full-length albums; Picture Perfect and Shh…Just Go With It
-A copy of a rare CD “This Is Why We Don’t Have Nice Things”
-Every Avenue Guitar picks

Rock For Health will include for the winner:
(2) Rock For Health T-shirts
(2) Rock For Health Stickers
(2) Rock For Health Wristbands
(2) Rock For Health Buttons

Click the image below to donate and enter!

Warped 09′ – Half way there!

Sunday, July 26th, 2009

We have officially hit the half way mark of the tour!  This past week we have been to Boston, Virginia Beach, Charlotte, Orlando (home town of our bus mates- There For Tomorrow), West Palm Beach, and finally today we are in St. Petersburg, Fla. We experienced rain on about 3 out of those 6 dates!  The weather has been intense but it has not crippled the spirits of fan or warped worker. In Virginia Beach we saw dust that rivaled the Midwest dust bowl era and in Orlando we felt such heat that melting was inevitable.

This week has brought Rock For Health down to earth. In West Palm Beach I had a girl around the age of 16 or 17 approach the table inquiring about the company. She smiled politely and at the end of my explanation said, “Yeah I know, I kind of did a report on this company in school. I got an A, I just wanted to listen to what you had to say to make sure I didn’t screw up.” In Orlando a boy came to the table asking about what RFH is after seeing numerous shirts on stage throughout the tour.  Taryn, who is awesome and is joining us on the road for the next week, provided him with the information on the company and he replied like many kids do when they visit any merch table, “Ugh, I totally would but I have no more money.” He walked away. Within 5 minutes of his departure he returned and handed us an extremely generous donation!  You know who you are, and we thank you from the bottom of our hearts!

Yesterday in West Palm we started running raffles to win signed Rock For Health merch. Our first band was The Devil Wears Prada! The raffle was extremely successful and the winner was young Brandon. When Taryn and I met him to give him his new signed swag he looked at us with tears in his eyes and thanked us. (*The Devil Wears Prada was unable to do a signing yesterday which was a bummer, but ended up making our contest ultra special for us.) In the coming days we will be doing raffles for merch signed by bands such as The Maine, Hit the Lights, Breathe Carolina, and a few more special surprises…

Stay tuned for more words from the road!

Best,
Amanda

Warped Tour Update Part Deux

Saturday, July 4th, 2009

Happy fourth of July!

Let me start off with an overdue video update from Pomona, CA.  Amanda from Shore Alternative was out with us for a few days!  Be sure to check out her site!  We will be doing a lot of video blogs with them this summer.

Warped Tour has been very kind to us thus far… It’s day 10 already!  Thanks to everyone who has stopped by so far!
Doesn’t our tent look lovely?

Booth - Pomona, CA (more…)

Warped Tour Update Number One!

Sunday, June 28th, 2009

Greetings from There For Tomorrow’s bus!  We are currently en route to Ventura, CA for day 3 of Warped Tour.  Things have been going great so far!  The whole crew is out – me (Kristina), Andi, Diego, Amanda, and Michael (who is also out for Glamour Kills!).

Pre-production day in Pomona was on Thursday.  Got to love it – its summer camp reunion!  Hot, long, and sweaty, but well worth it.

We are riding with There For Tomorrow the whole tour and I couldn’t be more stoked about it!  The guys are so great and hospitable to my whole crew.  I’m currently listening to them have a conversation about why N*Sync is great or just plain terrible.  Got to love it!

Thank you to everyone who stopped at the tent these past two days – current supporters and new!  It’s nice being able to put faces to many of you that I have been talking to.

We’re really excited about the “Sponsor A Band” contest that we are running right now – be sure to check it out!  We will be announcing more bands very shortly.  There For Tomorrow and Versa Emerge are currently up there.  Keep checking back for more updates!

Check out www.shorealternative.com and look out for some new videos that the lovely Amanda Tumulty and I (pictured below) have been filming.

Looking forward to meeting many of you this summer!

Be well –
Kristina

Amanda and Kristina

Get your favorite band healthcare and have the best Warped Tour Ever!

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

You have the opportunity to help your favorite bands with something a musician desperately needs- healthcare. ROCK FOR HEALTH is allowing you the chance to sponsor your favorite band’s healthcare for one year! You’ve bought CDs, t-shirts, and traveled far and wide to see them play, but now you can do something unique and personal for your favorite band!

About RFH: ROCK FOR HEALTH is a non profit organization that advocates health and preventative care for musicians and their crew members. A population that is better informed about its health care coverage options will be better able to access needed care. RFH will inform musicians on a wide variety of health issues including preventative health services, social, mental and occupational outreach.  Through leadership, communication, and partnerships, RFH is dedicated to the creation of a healthy musical environment in which artists and performers can perform at their peak physical and mental abilities. Without healthy musicians, we will not have music that is created to its highest potential.  Sick artists cannot tour.  RFH wants to make their life and music healthy by helping them address health problems before they escalate into thousands of dollars worth of hospital bills. Music exists because of the artists creating it.

Record labels exist  because of the artists creating that music. The employees of record labels (everyone from the mail room guys to the CEO) all have health insurance and benefits. Yet – these people all have jobs because of  the artists. The artists see no benefits, no health insurance,  nothing. Musicians are not seen as employees of a record label. They are “temps” – temporary employees – because of the record contract that they sign. They sign their career and lives over to these labels, which help develop it and help it grow. Nine times out of ten, a band will break up or cancel tours due to prevailing health issues.

You’re probably wondering…how can I help?! See the link below, and check out our auctions. The winning fan will be improving the lives of an entire band and crew for one year, and in return will receive the Warped Tour of a lifetime!

Auctions start at $360, which covers a band’s monthly healthcare fee for an entire year. Each band has catered their own prize pack specific to the winner of their auction.

Prizes range from VIP passes to Warped Tour, watching the band from sidestage, a private meet & greet with the winner and a friend, signed CDs, free clothing and so much more. All of the prize packs include: (2) Rock For Health T-shirts, (2) Rock For Health Stickers, (2) Rock For Health Wristbands, & (2) Rock For Health Buttons. Don’t miss out on the opportunity of the year to show your true appreciation for your favorite band! Click the image below:

-Kristina and Michael