I’m involved in a charity event at the Chelsea Hotel this Monday, for The Voice Project, and we could use your support. The funds raised help Ugandan women whose children have been abducted into slavery as child soldiers, by providing them with microfinancing to get them and their families back together and back on their feet.

The event will be a blast, with open bar and DJ sets by JALEEL BUNTON from TV ON THE RADIO and TED GUSHUE, and live episodes being taped with PARTS AND LABOR and JOAN AS POLICE WOMAN, all for the cover chains on voiceproject.org.
 

It’s this Monday. I’d love to see you there!

 Please do me a favor and pass this invitation along!

 
Caroline

The Voice Project Fall Benefit

Monday, November 15, 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm 

Chelsea Hotel
The Chelsea Room
222 West 23rd St.

Price: $45 in advance, $60 at the door

Open Bar

RSVP: http://guestlistapp.com/events/34275

Facebook event page:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=170114513014091

The Voice Project Fall Benefit is our inaugural New York City event. Funds raised go to support Ugandan women whose children have been abducted into slavery as child soldiers, by providing them with microfinancing to get them and their families back together and back on their feet, amid the 23 years of the area’s civil unrest.

There will be and open bar and DJ sets by JALEEL BUNTON from TV ON THE RADIO and TED GUSHUE, and live episodes being taped with PARTS AND LABOR and JOAN AS POLICE WOMAN for the cover chains on voiceproject.org. Please join us on Monday, November 15th from 7pm-10pm as we raise money for this amazing cause.

Supporter $45: The basic online ticket price for the event is $45, so you get a bit of a discount for buying them ahead of time here as they’ll be $60 at the door. Not a bad price for free drinks in this city of ours. Plus you get to hang out with some good people, hear some great music and do some good for the world all at the same time. We’ll be filming episodes with bands for The Voice Project right at the party so if you like you can probably work yourself into a few frames ;) Gonna be an amazing night.

Looking forward to seeing you!

www.voiceproject.org

About The Voice Project:

The Voice Project, a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, was co-founded by Hunter Heaney and Anna Gabriel to support a truly amazing cause inspired by the women of Uganda. These women are using forgiveness songs passed on through the bush to call back their abducted children who were forced to be child soldiers. The Voice Project is using music to spread their message and help with the peace, reconciliation, and rebuilding efforts in Central East Africa through on-the-ground programs: http://voiceproject.org/programs/livelihood-programs.php

The funds raised go to support Ugandan women whose children have been abducted into slavery as child soldiers, by providing them with microfinancing to get them and their families back together and back on their feet, amid the 23 years of the area’s civil unrest.

Artists like Peter Gabriel, Joanna Newsom, Thom Yorke, Billy Bragg, R.E.M.’s Mike Mills, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Dawes,Andrew Bird and Angelique Kidjo have supported The Voice Project by recording a cover of a song by an artist of their choice. That song, supported by corporate sponsorship, is then passed along in either private recordings or events with other artists. It’s symbolic to the songs started by the women in Uganda.

—-

You can read more about the situation in Uganda here:

 http://children.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2008/02/20/uganda-child-soldier-awareness-week/

——

Our summer 2010 event in LA:

 http://la.guestofaguest.com/events/thom-yorke-djs-nightswim-at-tropicana/

Rolling Stone’s recent coverage of The Voice Project’s initiatives:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/17386/119562

Hear It Now: Peter Gabriel’s Exclusive New Track

Gabriel covers Tom Waits to benefit African relief organization

On Peter Gabriel’s new album Scratch My Back, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer reworks songs by Radiohead, David Bowie, Neil Young, Arcade Fire and more artists into orchestral arrangements. Now Gabriel is releasing one additional cover that didn’t wind up on the LP — a solo piano performance of Tom Waits’ “In the Neighborhood” — as part of the Voice Project, a music-based initiative that’s raising awareness and support for the war-torn region of Central East Africa. Gabriel’s daughter Anna is one of the founders of the Voice Project, and his cover is also streaming on the sites of non-profit groups Invisible Children, Oxfam America, Resolve Uganda, WITNESS, and HOPE Campaign.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/17386/119562

To bring awareness to the problems plaguing Northern Uganda, Southern Sudan, Eastern Congo and Central African Republic, the Voice Project has recruited a number of artists to play a game of musical tag. Gary Go started things off by covering Joseph Arthur’s “Chicago,” which was followed by Arthur playing Gabriel’s “Shock the Monkey.” Gabriel opted to try his hand at the Swordfishtrombones track, revealing in a statement, “I’ve wanted to sing Tom Waits’ ‘In the Neighborhood’ for a long time and this was a great opportunity.”

 Adding, “I love the idea that a song can reach people that can’t be touched in any other way,” Gabriel said he’s moved by how messages can spread by one mobile phone to another. “We can start dealing with the world’s problems linking person to person. That is what is powerful about the Voice Project’s original dream.”

Other episodes in the Voice Project have seen R.E.M.’s Mike Mills covering Billy Bragg, Steel Train taking on La Roux, Dawes performing Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes’ “Carries On” and more. Visit the Voice Project site for more information and to watch all the episodes.

—

See you on Monday!