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The Honorable Will Wynn, Austin Mayor, announces October 2, 2007, as 2nd HAAM
Benefit Day with support of (l to r):
Donna Butler, director of marketing, The Hyatt Regency Lost Pines
Resort & Spa, Bastrop; Ashton Cumberbatch, VP industry & governmental
relations, Seton Family of Hospitals; Dick Moeller, CEO, St. David’s
Community Health Foundation; Edward Safady, Austin-area chairman,
Prosperity Bank, and secretary of HAAM Board of Directors; country
singer-songwriter Jessie Lee Miller, HAAM member-musician; and Lorin
Jameson, Sony Online Entertainment
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For Immediate Release
Sept. 24, 2007
AUSTIN HONORS & SERVES CREATORS OF ITS LIVE MUSIC
WITH 2ND ANNUAL HAAM BENEFIT DAY
ON OCTOBER 2
Beneficiary Provides Access to Healthcare for City’s Working, Uninsured Musicians
Austin, TX — Austin is the self-proclaimed “Live Music Capital of the World,” yet many professional musicians are self-employed and most have no access to increasingly expensive health insurance. Without insurance, they can't afford preventive health, mental health or dental care and must juggle several day jobs to survive and continue to play for appreciative audiences their music from punk to mariachi and classical to folk. Health Alliance for Austin Musicians (HAAM) works to make sure musicians can receive the care they need.
On Tuesday, October 2, more than 175 Austin-area businesses will show their support for the talented musicians who make the city and its culture so rich when those businesses participate in the 2nd HAAM BENEFIT DAY — raising vital funds for current and future HAAM member-musicians.
That day, large and small businesses — ranging from the world’s leading natural and organic foods supermarket, Whole Foods Market, to local bakery Sweetish Hill and from law firms like Jackson Walker LLP to Antone’s Records — will donate 5% of the day’s proceeds or make a cash donation.
More than 80 musical acts, most with members who belong to HAAM, will perform at businesses throughout the city and on stages set up on closed streets to increase sales and remind shoppers who is being helped through their purchases. Lists of businesses taking part and live music performances will be available at www.myhaam.org.
In addition, Austin’s ME Television (Central Texas channel 15 & digital 577) will conduct an all-day telethon featuring music by HAAM members throughout. Individuals who wish to contribute can call in to the telethon at 512.608.4060; donate to special HAAM donation boxes at select Thundercloud Subs locations, Time Warner north and south, and Waterloo Records & Videos; or go online to www.myhaam.org.
With Charity Partners of Austin’s commitment to match donations with a grant as much as $10,000, it means the power of even one dollar given during HAAM BENEFIT DAY will double.
Because 65 percent more area businesses will participate this year, HAAM BENEFIT DAY Committee members, who represent the strong bond between the business and music communities, anticipate raising more than $100,000 from businesses alone. Austin Mayor Will Wynn sees it as a win-win situation, calling live music “a very, very important economic engine for our town.”
Health Alliance for Austin Musicians was founded in April 2005 when the Seton Family of Hospitals and St. David’s Community Health Foundation joined forces with The SIMS Foundation to provide medical, dental, and mental health care to the city’s hard-working, low-income musicians. More than 900 musicians, most 35 and younger, have become members.
For more information and membership applications and to make a donation, visit www.myhaam.org or www.HealthAllianceForAustinMusicians.org or call 512.322.5177.
Contacts: Jill McGuckin, McGuckin Entertainment PR, 512.217.9404; jill@mcguckinpr.com
Carolyn Schwarz, director of services, Health Alliance for Austin Musicians, 512.324.8976; cschwarz@healthallianceforaustinmusicians.org
Pam Crowther, Seton Family of Hospitals, 512.324-3170, pcrowther@seton.org
Kim Koster, St. David’s Community Health Foundation Leadership, 512.879.6612; kim@sdchf.org
Sandy Bruce, SIMS Foundation, 512.472.1008; sbruce@simsfoundation.org
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