Jam Band Charity
The Phoenix New Times has a nice write-up, subtitled “Deadheads and Phish Fans Focus on Giving.”
LivePhish Supports Mockingbird
BILLBOARD MAGAZINE December 23, 2003 http://www.billboard.com Simon & Garfunkel, Phish Feeling Charitable The recently reunited duo of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel today (Dec. 23) made a joint $1 million donation to the Children’s Health Fund. Half the money...
New music program ready to rock Memphis schools
New music program ready to rock Memphis schools, by Bill Ellis ([email protected]) March 15, 2003; GoMemphis.com (Memphis, TN) Online at http://www.gomemphis.com/mca/local_news/article/0,1426,MCA_437_1813279,00.html Little Kids Rock, a San Francisco-based organization that offers free music instruction and instruments to elementary and middle...
Musician-teacher gets grant for camp
Musician-teacher gets grant for camp, by Steve Sherman February 12, 2002; The Review (Bryn Mawr, PA), p. 4 Wissahickon resident and musician Greg Wright, who’s now in his 40s and has played music professionally since he was in his...
Name your poisson
MUSIC DISH, January 1, 2002, http://musicdish.com/ Phish is a Burlington, Vermont-based guitar, bass, keys, and drum band formed in 1983. Its members met in college in Vermont and since those early days, the quartet has attracted a cult-like following...
Top Seller at HGMN
Top From the Home Grown Music Network’s inaugural 2001 Home Grown Awards, announced 12/14/01: CUSTOMER’S CHOICE – Sharin’ in the Groove: Celebrating the Music of Phish – How appropriate that in a year that saw our country go to...
Westlake gets grant
From the Santa Cruz (CA) Sentinel, 11/4/01, p. A-13, “Westlake gets grant for music program”: The Mockingbird Foundation of Soquel has awarded Westlake Elementary School a $5,000 grant. The grant will help support a new program developed by Westlake...
Burlington Free Press
BURLINGTON (VT) FREE PRESS November 1, 2001 http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/ VYO plays on Phish tribute album It was a night they’ll never forget. When the 83 members of the Vermont Youth Orchestra walked out onto the stage at the Troy Savings...
Phish Fans Help Mentoring Program
“Phish fans help mentoring program”, 8/18/01 Times Union (Albany, NY): The Schenectady Symphony Orchestra will expand its mentoring programs into Shenendehowa High School’s music room after recently receiving a $5,000 boost from the Mockingbird Foundation, an organization founded by...
Ice Praises Sharin’
ICE MAGAZINE, July 2001, http://www.icemagazine.com, “Ice Cubes” The Mockingbird Foundation, the non-profit Phish organization maintained by fans, unleashes a double-disc tribute album for the group on June 26. Entitled Sharing in the Groove, the impressive track list includes “Bouncing...