Impact Awards- New Orleans Musicians Relief Fund is Community Building

We're bonafide for a second time!  Vote for NOMRF as a MySpace Impact Awards finalist (click badge for Impact site), because the $10,000 grant will make a difference to displaced musicians.

You can vote every day, and it would be cool if you did. Thank you in advance for helping make this happen for New Orleans.

Amp Auction and New Orleans Concert and MySpace Awards Oh My! (Now With More Little Steven)

(Sylvio Says VOTE)

MySpace "Community Building" Impact Award Voting is through Friday and the winner will be announced soon after, we hope, the suspense is killing us. With help from volunteer graphic designers, publicists, video producers, REM, Dr John, Little Steven, Kenny Wayne Shepard and Ian Hunter plus all the amazing local musicians on the ReDefine 8/29 Download, the New Orleans Musicians Relief Fund is feeling outnumbered but optimistic.

You too can help by casting a vote at the Myspace Impact Awards official site: http://www.myspace.com/impactawards.

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You can vote once a day, so keep visiting the site until the deadline on Friday. Each vote counts, and it's a simple way to show support.

We're also still rolling out "The ReDefine 8/29 Download Platform" recently given a 4 star review by Rolling Stone Magazine which features seventeen songs by Dr. John, Ian Hunter, The Kaiser Chiefs, Johnny Sansone, Edwin McCain and Maia Sharp, Backyard Tire Fire, Craig Klein, Chicago Farmer, Susan Cowsill, James Andrews, The Rev. Goat Carson, the dB's, John Rankin, Beatin Path, Bryan Lee, Spencer Bohren and Joe Topping. As many of the above artists as we can get will be performing their songs at The Carrolton Station Download Celebration on Friday. Featuring special guests. Come be one of them.

And starting today, Headstrong Amps is auctioning a retro style hand-built amp signed by Dr. John, Kenny Wayne Shepard, Little Steven, Mike Mills and Ian Hunter. This piece of rock and roll history will be auctioned until 8:29 pm on August 29. Get your respective bidding finger and voting fingers ready.

Huge Extension - MySpace Impact Award Finals Now Open to the 24th, So Vote Often!!!!

MySpace has just extended its Community Building Impact Awards voting to Aug. 24 at midnight due to technical difficulties the first two days. That could make all the difference. The New Orleans Musicians Relief Fund is at 3,000 friends and is LA group is 100,000 so it's your classic long shot.

Vote Early, Vote Often for New Orleans Musicians Relief Fund

We're in the final three! You can vote daily from now though Friday for the New Orleans Musicians Relief Fund in the MySpace Impact Awards, Community Building category. Reposting this badge and the blurb on MySpace would be a great help. The other two finalists have hundreds of thousands of myspace friends so NOMRF is a long shot but hopeful.

Individuals have helped keep this grass roots Fund alive for almost two years, and that has helped displaced New Orleans musicians.

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