Two time Artist of the Week and Rock for Hunger Fest 1 & 2 performing artist, Cori Yarckin stops in at the Endagon Innovations offices to interview with Rock for Hunger.
Check out her interview as she talks about her upcoming records and final show before she heads to California.
Monster and Back Booth are putting on the first Annual Monster Battle of the Bands at Back Booth this year, and have made Rock for Hunger the official beneficiary charity of the event. This event is going to be amazing! They have many great sponsors including Rock for Hunger Fest supporters: Budweiser, Monster, Orlando Weekly and Park Ave CD’s, as well as Gibson, Enemy Ink, and PCX Media. They are giving out a ton of guitars and $500 to each semi-final winner, and $3,000 cash to the finals winner!!!
Check out their website and sign-up for this amazing event. And take a look at the many great prizes they are going to be offering. The battle begins at the end of January and the finals will be held in June. Please send an e-mail to Chris if you have any questions: chris@rockforhunger.org.
G-Ro aka Greg Rollett
(www.myspace.com/grobreakn)
Laura Reed & Deep Pocket
(www.myspace.com/laurareedmusic)
This Monday the finally four nominees for the 2008 Rock for Hunger Artist of the Year will be announced!!! Before we get there we have one more artist that has reached the Top 10 2008 Artists that Rock for Hunger! It is our newest Rock for Hunger Fest committee member and Volunteer Coordinator, Emily Sessoms. From day she filled in on a very though role of being the volunteer coordinator with all the volunteers already recruited. Not only did she do an awesome job with handling all the volunteers, but Emily has also raised money from a ton of ticket sales, and played at both our 2nd Annual Night of Music 4 Peace at Ten Thousand Villages and at Rock for Hunger Fest 3. Emily is an individual who is truly passionate in using her music to change people’s lives. Now she is off planning her own festival to benefit many different charities, and if she is still in town has stepped up to the plate to be the Volunteer Coordinator for Rock for Hunger Fest 4 next year. Emily truly lives up to the quote from Bono “Music can CHANGE the WORLD, because Music can CHANGE PEOPOLE.”
Our first out of town band has entered the 2008 Rock for Hunger Top 10 Artists of the Year. There is nobody more deserving than Passafire to be here. Passafire has been excited about the cause since the day they accepted the show offer to be part of Rock for Hunger Fest 3. They are a very talented Reggae/Rock band out of Savannah, GA. I always say that if Incubus became a reggae band they would be Passafire. They are part of Law Records started by Pepper, which also features Orlando’s The Supervillains. A month before the show we had the pleasure of meeting Passafire and their super cool tour Manager Adam. G-Ro interviewed them for Rock for Hunger, and they were very passionate about the cause and spreading the message of reggae, empowering people all over the world. They put on a fantastic set at Rock for Hunger Fest. We are excited to have this amazing band part of the Rock for Hunger Family, and part of the Top 10 Artists of 2008. I hope Passafire will stop back by at a Rock for Hunger show in 2009.
We are getting closer each day to finding out who the final four candidates for the Rock for Hunger 2008 Artist of the Year. Coming in at #8 is Rock for Hunger Fest 2 & 3 performing artist Social Ghost. This band has been supportive of our mission for close to two years now. Social Ghost was kind enough to open the Festival this year brining in extra people and allowing the iRock for Hunger Battle of the Bands winner, Black Ship Sky, to take their spot. This is a band that is truly dedicated to the cause and not in it for them. They are planning a massive album release for the New Year! Be sure to keep checking their myspace for when it’s going to be released. Hopefully they will pack out House of Blues or Hard Rock Live this year. This is a band that is going to do big things and represent Orlando proud in 2009! Keep up the great work!
The Rock for Hunger 2008 Artist of the Year Top 10 Countdown continues. Coming at #9 is one of Rock for Hunger's newest Family Members: BLACK SHIP SKY!!! We are very proud to have met such passionate and talented individuals such as Kris Kahn and the entire Black Ship Sky gang. Black Ship Sky is the winner of the inaugural iRock for Hunger Battle of the Bands 2008. They dominated the competition in the first round, and come out with a close victory over another RFH favorite, Johnny Plastic & the Rubber Band in the finals. In their two shows they have raised over 6-15 Gallon Tots of Food, and over $1,200 in funds for the organization. Thanks for their efforts we have made a new partner with TJ Max. We are so very proud to have Black Ship Sky part of the Rock for Hunger family. Thank you guys for everything you do!
Christmas is here! And of course we are having a Christmas party for the Homeless at Lake Eola in Orlando on Monday December 22nd. We need Volunteers for this excellent Christmas Volunteer opportunity. This will be held at our weekly Monday Night Food sharing location across from our meeting point on the corner of Cathcart and Robinson. This will be a MOVIE NIGHT in the park. Come join us as we break bread with our friends at Lake Eola, pass out clothes, give out Christmas cards, and presents for everyone. We will also announce the winner of the 2008 Rock for Hunger Artist of the Year Award. We also need your help to make this event happen. We need to raise $500 to help make this event happen (pays for permits, and other expenses). Below is our donation tracker. Just click on ChipIn! to donate. Thank you!
The 2008 Rock for Hunger Artist of the Year Top 10 Countdown has begun!!! We are very proud that Union Made has made the Top 10 of 2008 that Rock for Hunger. Not to take anything away from this amazing band, whenever mentioning Union Made, I have to give a huge shout out to their singer and Rock for Hunger Board of Director, Drew Petrone. He has been a real blessing to us since day one. An individual who has been very passionate about the cause from the first event we have ever done, and has given so much to help make our mission and work possible. It was a great pleasure to add this amazing individual to our Board of Directors this year. He is going to be heading our Creative team, and will be part of the “Talk 4 Hunger” committee. We will have more info on “Talk 4 Hunger” very soon, or check out the official website for more info http://www.rockforhunger.org/.
Union Made is an amazing funk/rock band out of Orlando, FL who reminds me of old school Red Hot Chili Peppers. Way back from the “True Men Don’t Kill Coyotes” days. Some really good old school funk with fun drinking songs, and they throw in a little bit of in your face punk rock in songs like “Kick in the Face.” Union Made was part of Rock for Hunger Fest 3, and our Rock for Hunger Spring Show 2008. It is a great pleasure to have Union Made be in the Top 10 Artists that Rock for Hunger in 2008.
We are very excited to begin the countdown to find out who the four nominees are for the 2008 Rock for Hunger Artist of the Year!!! For those that don’t remember who won in 2007, it was K-G & the Band who took the first ever Rock for Hunger artist of the year award. Who will be following in his footsteps? The Top 10 Countdown will begin tomorrow as we count them down from #10-#5 and then announce the four nominees for the Rock for Hunger Artist of the Year award on Monday December 15th. Then the winner will be announced at our Rock for Hunger Christmas party on Monday December 22nd at our weekly feed sharing at Lake Eola 6:30pm (that wee we will start earlier, as it will be our Christmas party and movie night. More info coming this week). Here is what’s going on this week in Rock for Hunger:
MONDAY – Food Sharing at Lake Eola (Orlando, FL)
Join us for our longest and strongest running program as we go into week #91 in a row of our weekly Food Sharing at Lake Eola. As always our festivities begin at 6:45pm as we meet on the corner of Robinson and Cathcar Ave. in Downtown Orlando. This is 90 weeks in a row without a break. Why? Because all of you AWESOME volunteers ROCK FOR HUNGER!
MONDAY – Rock for Hunger Artist of the Year Top 10 Countdown
Check out the Blog as the Countdown begins to the Rock for Hunger Artist of the Year. Find who all made the top 10 for this years award.
TUESDAY – Internship Interviews
Internship Interviews begin for our Spring 2009 semester. We have many great interested interns who want to be part of Rock for Hunger. It is not too late to send your resume. Click here for more info.
SATURDAY – Badda Skat & Scholar’s World @ Central Station
Check out Rock for Hunger Fest 3 performing artist Badda Skat at Central Station in Downtown Orlando as he performs with the super talented Scholar’s Word. Show begins at 10pm and cover is $5.
One of the main things that every business or nonprofit organization does when they are launched is create a website. Your website may not be getting any traffic, but it is there in case people are seeking information. Well how will someone ever find that information if you don’t know anything about Search Engine Optimization, how long you should own your domain, web design, or Social Media Marketing?
Rock for Hunger is lucky to have a very talented Board Member who is an expert in Social Media marketing and also the current marketing chair for Orlando nonprofit organization doterati. Through his training and expertise, Rock for Hunger has begun using blogs, you tube videos, twitter, flickr, myspace, facebook, and the list goes on and on. There have are so many creative ways you can use Social Media Marketing on the web to create traffic to you site. Perfect example, if you google search “Thanksgiving Volunteer Orlando” Rock for Hunger is still the 1st and 2nd site that comes up. See below:
To advance the Central Florida interactive marketing, media and technology
community by serving as an association for professional development, education,
community networking and overall inspiration for our digital society.
Is anyone keeping track of who has been celebrated as the "Featured Artist" the most? If anyone is keeping score, I would actually like to know. There is no question that this week's would be in the running, because she has not only had a prominent presence for Rock for Hunger but for the Orlando community as a whole. And now that she has spearheaded her own charity and subsequent events, she has become a force to be reckoned with.
While I can ramble on about how catchy and appealing her songs are, would there be any point? You can refer back to this post to read all about that stuff:
http://blog.rockforhunger.org/2008/01/featured-artist-of-week-cori-yarckin.html
The purpose of this Featured Artist spotlight is to highlight "Rock Pink" - her own organization that she has become so dedicated to. Rock Pink's Mission Statement says:
"To bring music and humanity together center stage to raise breast health awareness and to make the road to recovery as easy as possible for as many as possible whenever possible."
Cori has found a cause that she cares for and taken it into her own hands. She deserves to be commended for that. Coincidentally, you will be able to do that at Rock Pink's Merry Monster Christmas Show at the Cheyenne Saloon this Saturday, December 6th.
For more information about Cori Yarckin, her music, Rock Pink, and this Saturday's event, please refer to the links below.
http://www.myspace.com/coriyarckin
http://www.rockpink.com
-Logan Lenz
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