Wishing for a compilation of the Minneapolis area’s best and brightest bands? Want to help a great cause? I’ve got your jackpot right here.
This year I’m again helping to promote Hope Rocks! Vol. 2 Benefiting Faith’s Lodge, a fundraiser for Faith’s Lodge, a local nonprofit dedicated to helping parents with a seriously ill child or who have lost a child.
Hope Rocks! Volume II is a compilation CD produced by Drew Pearson at 50 Entertainment and includes tracks from some of my favorite local bands, including Solid Gold, Atmosphere, Jeremy Messersmith, The Wars of 1812, A Night in the Box, Dan Rodriguez, Rocket Club and more.
Vol. 2 marks the second annual fundraiser for Faith’s Lodge, and you just couldn’t pick a better reason to buy an album chock full of good music for a good cause.
Check out this tracklist:
- Soul Asylum – Stand Up and Be Strong
- Catchpenny – Can’t Let It Get You Down
- Quietdrive – Deliverance
- Solid Gold – Get Over It
- Owl City – On the Wing
- Jeremy Messersmith – Miracles
- Atmosphere – Yesterday
- Laarks – All the Words You Can’t Say Right
- Ice Palace – Thoughts/Facts
- The Wars of 1812 – Radios Unsigned
- A Night in the Box – Let Me Know
- Halloween, Alaska – The Hollywood Sign
- The Cloud Hymn – Wide
- Haley Bonar – Arms of Harm
- Lynhurst – Exactly
- Dan Rodriguez – Games
- Rocket Club – One More Day
- Keri Noble – Simple Things
CD’s can be purchased at all Twin Cities Target Stores on the Cities 97 endcap and on the Faith’s Lodge web site – www.faithslodge.org/hoperocks – beginning September 27, 2009.
Meanwhile, check out this video Rocket Club posted from their live Studio C recording of “One More Day” they did at Cities 97 on Tuesday. The lyrics were written in memory of Faith Ann Lacek by her dad, and the track is on the compilation. Talk about a poignant, moving, passionate and loving song…
Crying? Me, too. Be sure to watch WCCO at 10 tonight for the emotional story behind the song.
This Saturday there’s a CD Release event fundraiser at Epic with a fashion show, emcees WCCO-TV’s Frank Vascellaro and Amelia Santaniello, live auction and performances by The Bodeans and Keri Noble. Tickets are $150 and can be picked up right here. The event is going to sell out, so act fast if you want to come.
I want to say a special thanks to my friends at British Rock Is Always Top, Borangutan, Above the Fold and Lunch of Champions for helping to promote the album and event. You guys rock.
