All I can say is that we’re wowed by the generosity of the podcast community with respect to The Blubrry Jam To Fight Cystic Fibrosis. We offered a thirty day front page banner rotation here on Blubrry to the first three podcasters who kicked in $150 or more to benefit the Boomer Esiason Foundation Exercise For Life scholarship fund. The community has responded.
Jeff Hinz of the Friday Night Dance Party podcast (and RawVoice), Jamie Davis of the MedicCast podcast and Mignon Fogarty of Grammar Girl and the QDNow network have made these very generous donations.
Blubrry thanks you. The Boomer Esiason Foundation thanks you. And I’m sure that the kids with cystic fibrosis would thank you as well. We will start rotating those banners on our front page very soon.
For those of you interested in getting some visibility along with your donation we still have a pair of spots left in the featured donors section reserved for those who are kind enough to donate $25 or more to the effort. And everyone who donates $10 or more will be recognized on the Blubrry Jam page.
And don’t forget that you can support the effort for as little as $.50 by purchasing DRM-free tracks from Brother Love (including his new single Soccergirl) and HER & Kings County over on the Amie Street website.
Amie Street is a music based social network that makes it really simple for music fans to connect with artists and purchase DRM-free music at fair prices. They also make it dead simple for indie artists to sell their music and connect with fans. This is a match made in heaven since the Amie Street folks are allowing us to preview and sell music from Brother Love and HER & Kings County to support the Blubrry Jam campaign.
Between now and May 15th, 2007 all royalties generated from sales of music downloads for these two artists on Amie Street will go straight to the Boomer Esiason Foundation. That includes Brother Love’s new single Soccergirl. You can sample the Brolo tracks on Amie Street in the very nice player below.
So please head over to check out the fun rock music of Brother Love and the urban country vibe of HER & Kings County. And while you’re over there we’re sure that you’ll discover lots other great music as well.
The baddest duo in podcasting, and New York locals to boot, Keith and the Girl will be providing their irreverent and controversial talents for the Blubrry Jam live event on April 7th.
As I write this Brother Love is doing the KATG live show. It’s gonna be a great show and it’s for truly a great cause. Get your discounted advance tickets at http://blubrryjam.eventbrite.com. You can save a couple of bucks and save yourself from having to dig for cash at the door on the night of the event.
We get some Blubrry love from Brother Love on episode #11.3 of his podcast. He makes the announcement on his new album and the CD release party at the Blubrry Jam For Cystic Fibrosis. You can even catch a few snippets of the new Brolo single titled Soccergirl.
Today we launch our first of hopefully many charitable campaigns within the Blubrry podcast community. The Blubrry Jam To Fight Cystic Fibrosis is a campaign that will benefit the Exercise For Life scholarship fund that provides financial assistance to those living with cystic fibrosis. Cystic fibrosis (CF) is an incurable disease of the the lungs that cuts the life expectancy of those afflicted to just 37 years.
We are teaming up on the campaign with podsafe music artist Brother Love and the Boomer Esiason Foundation. The Boomer Esiason Foundation started the Exercise For Life program after being inspired by Cystic Fibrosis Podcast host Jerry Cahill. Jerry is 50 years and living with CF. Jerry has improved his quality of live and extended his life expectancy by focusing on fitness throughout his life.
The campaign is running from March 15th thru May 15th and includes a live benefit concert in New York City on April 7th. On that night Brother Love will debut his long awaited follow up to Album Of The Year. Attendees of the live event will receive the new Brother Love CD as a gift for supporting the cause.
Everything you need to know about the campaign can be found over at www.blubrryjam.com. In short we’re asking all members of the worldwide podcast community to support the effort via donations and promotion of the campaign. If you’re a Blubrry podcaster, please replace any mentions of Blubrry with a mention of the Blubrry Jam for the length of the campaign. If we all come together we can really make a difference in the lives of those who are financially, physically and emotionally affected by this disease.
A special thanks to Blip.tv for hosting our campaign videos and assisting us with promotion of the campaign.
