FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 16, 2008
HEALTH ALLIANCE FOR AUSTIN MUSICIANS
ISSUES CALL FOR ENTRIES
IN CORPORATE BATTLE OF THE BANDS
September 3 Showdown at Antone’s to Preview 3rd HAAM Benefit Day
Austin, TX — Health Alliance for Austin Musicians is offering Austin business professionals who enjoy performing live music on the side an avenue to express their star power with its first Corporate Battle of the Bands, a fundraising contest and concert.
Deadline is Thursday, May 15, 2008, for registering a band in the Corporate Battle of the Bands. Each band must submit a Band Registration Form, a $25 registration fee payable to Austin Community Foundation/HAAM Fund and a music sample (by CD, MySpace link or a sound file to cschwarz@healthallianceforaustinmusicians.org).
To qualify, bands must have no less than three and no more than 10 members, and members must be hobbyists only and residents of the Austin area. Bands can represent any musical genre and perform covers or originals.
Bands chosen for the showdown will be notified by May 31 and will donate an entry fee of $1,000. A panel of celebrity guests will judge the bands 6 p.m. to midnight on Wednesday, September 3, at Antone’s, 213 W. Fifth St., and award special prizes for Best Cover Band, Best Original Band, Fan Favorite and Grand Prize Winner.
The Corporate Battle of the Bands is meant as a preview of the annual day of music and giving back that is scheduled for five weeks later, the city’s 3rd HAAM Benefit Day on Tuesday, October 7. And as a reminder to the entire community to join businesses and individuals on HAAM Benefit Day to support musicians’ health.
“Austin is home not only to over 8,000 working musicians but also thousands more who work by day as lawyers, doctors, firefighters, high-tech employees and more,” says Tim Taylor, second-year chairman of the HAAM Benefit Day Committee.
“The Corporate Battle of the Bands is a perfect opportunity to spotlight the talent of these non-professional musicians and to offer them the opportunity to give back to the professional musicians with whom they share a passion for performance and who contribute so much to the culture and economy of the Live Music Capital of the World,” says Taylor.
With Taylor, a partner in Jackson Walker LLP, on the HAAM Benefit Day Committee, which generated the idea of the Corporate Battle, are members Volney Campbell, HPI Real Estate; Dan Connolly, Comerica Bank; Keith Donahoe, Frost Bank; Scott Flack, Gottesman Company; Lisa Hickey, C3 Presents; David Jabour, Twin Liquors; Daniel Scardino, Jackson Walker LLP; Evan Williams, Edward Joseph Co.; and Diana Zuniga, Investors Alliance.
Band registration form and payment should be mailed to Health Alliance for Austin Musicians/ATTN: Corporate Battle of the Bands, P.O. Box 301496, Austin TX 78703.
For a Band Registration Form and more information, visit www.healthallianceforaustinmusicians.org and www.myhaam.org.
Contacts:
Jill McGuckin, McGuckin Entertainment, 512.217.9404; jill@mcguckinpr.com
Carolyn Schwarz, HAAM executive director, 512.324.8976; cschwarz@healthallianceforaustinmusicians.org
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