NASHVILLE |SET TO PERFORM AT
THE ROCK TO ROLL CHARITY EVENT
IN SAN FRANCISCO ON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2009
The fourth annual ROCK TO ROLL charity event spearheaded by SideOneDummy Co-Founder Joe Sib is happening this year at Slim’s in San Francisco, CA on Thursday December 3, 2009. The event will directly benefit the non-profit organization UCP WHEELS FOR HUMANITY. Headlining the event this year is NOFX. The night will also feature performance s from WAX, DEAD TO ME and NATHEN MAXWELL & THE ORIGINAL BUNNY GANG.
It is estimated that more than 100 million children and adults worldwide need wheelchairs and do not have them either due to lack of access, lack of money, or both. Their lack of mobility stems from accidents, birth defects, war injuries, debilitating diseases, aging, natural disasters and land mines. To address this need, UCP WHEELS FOR HUMANITY begins with volunteers collecting over 230,000 pounds of discarded wheelchairs and wheelchair parts each year from around the U.S. Since a wheelchair in a developing country is an unimaginable luxury, Therapeutic seating specialists then deliver and individually fit the wheelchairs to disadvantaged children and adults free of charge. Since 1996, UCP WHEELS FOR HUMANITY has helped over 44,000 children and adults living in the poorest of conditions, in developing countries such as Zimbabwe, Vietnam, Ukraine, Mexico, Mongolia, and many others.
Last year, the ROCK TO ROLL benefit concert at The Key Club in Hollywood, CA raised $38,000 for UCP WHEELS FOR HUMANITY. Combined Rock To Roll fund raising efforts have raised over $87,000 since the annual event began in 2006. The average wheelchair costs $150 to refurbish, which means ROCK TO ROLL has directly improved the lives of roughly 580 individuals in need. This is the first year the event will take place in San Francisco. Tickets go on sale Saturday, November 7. They are available in person at Slim's (333 11th St.) & Great American Music Hall (859 O'Farrell St.) box offices, online at www.slimstickets.com, or charge by phone at (888) 233-0449 & via fax (downloadable fax form available online at www.slims-sf.com).
NOFX released their 12th studio album Coaster earlier this year on singer Fat Mike’s own Fat Wreck Chords label. Rock To Roll founder Joe Sib fronts recently re-formed 90’s punk band Wax; this will bring the band full-circle as Slim’s was host to the band’s last show before disbanding in 1996. Wax recently played the Riot Fest in Chicago and opened for Weezer in Hollywood. DEAD TO ME will release their second full-length album entitled African Elephants via Fat Wreck Chords on November 9. NATHEN MAXWELL & THE ORIGINAL BUNNY GANG, the side project of Flogging Molly bassist Nathen Maxwell, released White Rabbit on Side One Dummy Records in August of 2009.
For More Information on the bands:
www.nofxofficialwebsite.com
www.myspace.com/waxtheband
www.myspace.com/deadtomesf
www.nathenmaxwell.com
To volunteer, support, and learn more about UCP Wheels, go to their website at www.ucpwfh.org
FOR MORE INFO:
Joe Sib
SideOneDummy Records
Ph: 323-790-0990 ext: 224
Fx: 323-790-0988
1944 N. Cahuenga Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90068
www.sideonedummy.com
joe@sideonedummy.com
Shazila Mohammed, shazila@msopr.com
Chelsi Schriver, cschriver@msopr.com
MSO
Ph: 818.380.0400
Fx: 818.380.0430
www.msopr.com
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