11 Year Old Raises Money for No Kid Hungry

11 year old Devon Hirsch gives back to children in need via his charitable project, Giving Grub. Here is his story.

My name is Devon Hirsch, and I'm an 11 year old from Cumming, GA (near Atlanta). I'm in 6th grade at Piney Grove middle school. In my school, over 30% of the kids get free or reduced cost meals because they are dealing with a major money issue. This past Summer I got to thinking...what happens to these kids? How do they eat breakfast and lunch if the schools are not there to provide it? That why I started googling No Kid Hungry. After reading about their Summer programs, and the work that Share out Strength does to promote the #NoKidHungry campaign, I talked with my dad about helping me to create a project that could effect this in a good way. That's when I came up with Giving Grub. I am looking to help in 3 ways:

1) raise awareness via Facebook and twitter (and other social media) so that everyone has more information on these programs. Did you know that Summer meals are provided all over the country, but very few eligible children take advantage of this?

2) raise money for NoKidHungry through donations and sales of my wristbands (see below)

3) collecting food for local food banks though "stock the shelves" days at supermarkets and my school (This is still in the planning stages)

My website is up and running at www.givinggrub.org and donations can be made from there. If someone donates and then contacts me with their address, I can send them wristbands.

Some notable celebrities are already supporting me and I look forward to gaining more support as we go.

By the way, my first goal was 100 followers and $1000 raised...we did that in less than 3 weeks. Right now, my goal is 250 followers (currently at 179) and $2500 raised (current at $1170). I will keep moving these goals as they are met, and I will taking a trip to Washington DC in April 2015 to meet with Share Our Strength and talk about GIVING GRUB.

Photo Recap: Dead End Drivers Live at Higher Ground Festival 2014

Thank you to our friends at Colorado Music Buzz - Here are the Dead End Drivers performing live at this year's Higher Ground Festival. Enjoy!!

The Stars Shine Brightly for Dale LePage

When New England music is mentioned, you will hear the name Dale LePage, the vocal styling’s of Dale LePage, whom happens to be one of New England’s top male vocalists and most sought after performers today.

At the young age of 17, Dale LePage set out for “the City” and growing up in the small town of Templeton, he arrived in Worcester, with nothing but the clothes on his back and a dream of music. To this starry-eyed kid, this was as good as it gets, alone in a city and living out of his car. Dale continued to live in his car, in empty lots, until he finally landed a job as a bus boy at a local nightclub. Although he wasn’t exactly living the dream, the nightclub provided him a little financial stability and countless hours of music. As Fate would have it, one night while singing to himself in the kitchen, of this nightclub Dale was recognized by the owner of the nightclub and was offered to take the stage with the band. From this point on Dale Lepage has been climbing the proverbial ladder stopping abruptly in 1985 being stricken with crippling stage freight and panic attacks, then after 25 years of being off the stage he is back with a vengeance garnering in the past 5 years countless accolades and award in the music industry. Today, Dale is the major vocals for the Jazz band Dale LePage and the Manhattans.

Dale has been extremely fortunate to be accompanied by majorly talented musicians, such as the winner of the Guitar Legend Award, Mr. Joe D’Angelo, pianist Bobby Gadoury, versatile percussionist Thomas Spears, bassist Geoffrey Oehling, Saxophonist Jim Russo, and his back-up singers, the Dalettes, Denise Cascione and Christine Rap. With the assistance of these great people by his side, Dale has been blessed to be a 3 time winner of “Entertainer of the Year” for Massachusetts, Boston’s “Entertainer of the Year” nominee and Best Jazz Male Vocalist – New England Music Award, nominee if that wasn’t enough you can add nominated 5 times for Best Male Jazz Vocalist for Pulse Music Awards, and has been invited to headline the Boston Association of Cabaret Artists American Songbook – Jazz and Swing.

Dale has received heart felt accolades from not only venue coordinators such as Lisa Condit, from the Hanover Theatre, as being “a great performer,” but, also radio broadcasters from WBZ reporter, Jordan Rich, who quotes Dale as having “pizzazz” and Vincent Lombardi from WICN Radio naming Dale as “a wonderful new jazz voice.” Not to mention, countless talk show hosts boasting about their audiences “are begging for more” after Dale’s performances. Not to mention, Dale LePage and the Manhattans have had 6 sold-out shows at the famous Nicks Nightclub, where the major motion picture “American Hustler“ was used as one of their main locations.

If this has anyone intrigued, as it should, you have a chance to finally treat your ears to a sweet melody of original material written personally by Dale, who was mentored by guitar legend Joe D’Angelo. At his CD Release Party on Thursday, September 4th, 2014, at 6 pm. At the Beechwood Hotel in Worcester
This will be Dale’s 4th CD which features an original track entitled “Long Way Home,” which is a tribute to his father Donald Charles LePage, Sr. In memory of this wonderful man, a portion of the CD sales proceeds will be donated to the Veterans, Inc.
Also, if anyone is interested in attending any of Dale LePage and the Manhattans other performances, feel free to visit his page at www.dalelepage.com. There is a complete list of performances and contact information, if you are interested in booking future gigs. But, be forewarned, Dale is already booked well into 2015.

Alexa Whilloughby
J.B. PR

Featured Show: Brian Player’s Acoustic Cafe

Brian Player’s Acoustic Cafe is a Radio Show broadcast around 15 times a week on internet and FM Radio Stations.
It features emerging artists from the world of Acoustic, Folk, Jazz and Rock music.
The show states it is where “Emerging Artists feature alongside Established Performers”.
The show attracts some 3000 listeners on a weekly basis and has a “Play again” feature through Mixcloud.

Brian started in Radio well over twenty years ago in his local hospital radio station in Surrey England.
However, career matters and other diversions took him away from the decks for a long period until taking an early retirement provided him the time to return to his love of radio.
His first show was on the then new internet station Radio Basingstoke. The format then developed into the show as we know it today.
That was just two years ago and in that time the show has gained popularity and is now syndicated to seven radio stations, one of which is in Canada.

A more recent feature of the show has been the periodic “Live” shows. Here artists are interviewed and then perform in front of a small audience, the whole thing is recorded and turned into a two hour “Special” for the stations that carry the show.
These live events are held in a local arts centre and attract artists from all over the UK and one well known New York Rocker ( Marla Mase) included an appearance in her European tour.
Brian would like the show to reach an even wider audience and is always keen to hear from Radio Stations that might like to feature the show that is supplied completely free of charge.

He would also of course like to hear from the Acoustic Musicians that make the show such a success and can be reached via his web site http://brianplayermusic.wordpress.com/

Get Heard on TWIN RADIO-Relaunching NOW!

Our friends at TWIN RADIO are relaunching the station and have come out with some new packages for artists!!!

Here's the new promo packages for artists starting with the new launch, choose to ignore this if you want, but it's strictly about business from here on out:

1 week- $25, includes features on all our shows, a Twitter shout out once a day, and a mention on our Facebook Fan Page once a day

2 weeks- $50, includes 2 features on our shows daily, 2 Twitter mentions daily, 2 Facebook Fan Page mentions daily

1 month - $100, includes 2 spins per show, 4 Twitter shout outs a day, 4 Facebook Fan Page mentions as we introduce the new "Featured Artist of the Month" which will also include links to your SoundCloud, reverbnation etc on our brand new website also

Our network is now officially over 1,000,000+ strong so we can get you noticed by the right people.

Artists are required to submit a picture along with your song in mp3 format with a small bio to be used for promotion to twinradiosyndicate@gmail.com

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Monster Track Supergroup Receives Glowing Review from timesleader.com

ALBUM REVIEW: Supergroup records two volumes of monster tracks

July 02. 2014 1:27AM
By Mark Uricheck Weekender Correspondent

One of the most prolific musicians in Northeast Pennsylvania strikes again. This time, Bret Alexander is out to have a little fun, with a project described on the band’s Facebook page as “a throwback to a time in life when music was pure and potent,” in Monster Track Supergroup. Comprised of, well, some “monster” AM radio nuggets of the 1960s and ‘70s, the band’s two EPs, “Vol. I” and Vol. II,” bristle with a decidedly analog coziness and unhurried lack of pretention with a meaty production value.

Coming off as the best-sounding basement tapes you’ve ever heard, the music is undeniably uninhibited and just short of reckless, without coming off as sloppy or superficial. The band, featuring Alexander on lead guitar, vocalist Jeff Pittinger of White Witch, ex-Breaking Benjamin drummer Jeremy Hummel, and live add-ons with guitarist Tony Harlan, Jimmy Lovcik on bass, and keyboardist Freeman White, is a cut above your average covers act. From the just slightly tongue-in-cheek reading of Cat Stevens’ “Wild World” on “Vol. I,” showcasing Alexander’s trembling acoustic delicacy, to the stiff upper lip passion on Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Have You Ever Seen the Rain?” on the same volume, the assembled musicians keep one hand in kid gloves and another in a bag of jam session-like immediacy in regards to the selected material.

One of the more interesting covers is Paul Revere and The Raiders’ “Indian Reservation (Cherokee Nation)” on “Vol. II,” with a variety of percussive tricks performed with chameleon-like showmanship via Hummel, the song seguing from moody candor reflecting the plight in the original lyrics to an almost primeval Deep Purple metal chug meets Alice Cooper’s “Welcome to My Nightmare” rock theatrics – too good to be missed. Badfinger’s “Day After Day” is pure daydreamy melancholy, replete with Alexander’s soothing slide guitar passages and a spot-on Vegas-like smoothness in Pittinger’s delivery.

A defining moment is the original song, “Adrienne,” on “Vol. II.” The high-velocity melodic inflection akin to disc one of The Badlees’ swan song double release, “Epiphones and Empty Rooms,” is rife with hard rock bluster, spirited pop punk with a catchier-than-a-cold chorus in, “Adrienne, sometimes I do things you don’t understand,” and a full-on rock star harmony guitar solo from Alexander – the effect is larger than life and will undoubtedly be a blast live.

An excitable detour resulting in a radio gold detox for some of NEPA’s hardest-working musicians, Monster Track Supergroup is nothing less than smiles all around.

Monster Track Supergroup ‘Volumes I and II’ Rating: W W W W W

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