At State Radio's two night sellout this weekend at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C., Calling All Crows, the band's service organization, announced their 2010 fundraising campaign to support Sudanese women. In partnership with Oxfam America, State Radio and Calling All Crows have set a goal to raise $100,000 through their Trees, Training, and Donkey Carts initiative. Calling All Crows is asking at least 100 fans to raise $1,000 to provide tree seedlings, vocational skills training and donkey carts to women.
http://bit.ly/djpWsvThis week, Calling All Crows and State Radio are hosting the first ever Alternative Break Tour: Destination New Orleans! Over March 1-7, 2010, nine service-minded State Radio fans are devoting their spring break traveling by tour bus down South, volunteering with members of the band at local non-profits by day and experiencing State Radio LIVE each night! Follow their adventures through photos, video, and blog posts here:
http://bit.ly/bJTIUr· Tuesday, March 2nd - Little Rock/Tulsa: Volunteers will start their day by experiencing a Visitors Program at City Year Little Rock (AmeriCorps), tour the William J. Clinton Presidential Library, and then drive to Tulsa for State Radio's show that night at Cain's.
· Wednesday, , March 3rd - Dallas: Volunteers and band members will serve at the North Texas Food Bank and then hit up State Radio's show at the House of Blue
· Thursday, March 4th - Austin: Volunteers will take part in a team challenge during the day and then join members of State Radio's band and crew as they attend the local screening of Nicholas Kristoff & Sheryl WuDunn's "Half the Sky Live" at Regal Metropolitan 14.
· Friday, March 5th - Austin: Volunteers will be up early, spending their day as test riders on the new CapitolRail extension and then wrap up their Lonstar State experience with State Radio at La Zona Rosa.
· Saturday, March 6th - New Orleans: Volunteers and band members will spend the afternoon in service with the St. Bernard Battered Women's Project, which has become a valuable resource in the Lower 9th Ward following Hurricane Katrina. Both Calling All Crows' Alternative Break Tour and State Radio's "Left Rides Again" Tour wrap up with a show at New Orleans' historic Tipitina's Uptown.
Half The Sky: On Thursday, March 4th, Crows will unite at movie theaters across the U.S. and Canada for a one night event inspired by stories from the New York Times bestseller Half the Sky by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn.
http://bit.ly/9gLfG610,000 hours of community service in 2010. That's the goal for Boston revolution rock trio State Radio's humanitarian organization Calling All Crows. In 2009 the group, with the help of over 600 volunteers, logged 3,000 hours of service and donated $100,000 to Oxfam America's Darfur Stoves Project. So far in 2010, the band and their fans have helped clean a beach in San Diego, sorted donations at a Food Bank in Salt Lake City, helped paint a school in Philly and much more.
Here's "Calling All Crows," a song from State Radio's latest album 'Let It Go,' written for their humanitarian organization:
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For more information, please contact Chris Taillie (ctaillie@shorefire.com) or Diana D'Angelo (ddangelo@shorefire.com) at Shore Fire Media, 718 522 7171.
