Phish, String Cheese Incident, Yonder Mountain String Band, Leftover Salmon and Big Heat Todd and the Monsters raise $300,000 for firefighters and victims.
Saturday night’s epic benefit for the victims that suffered from the Fourmile Canyon Fire — and the firefighters that fought it — west of Boulder Colorado in September, is a perfect example of how activism can snowball. The Fourmile Canyon Revival, originally slated to be held at the relatively small Boulder Theater, kept growing because more and more bands wanted to help out. And when all four members of the band Phish, who were slated to begin a three-night run Colorado run, said they would also like to be involved, the event had to be moved to the 6,500-seat 1st Bank Center in nearby Broomfield, Colorado — and it sold out in under an hour.
But it wasn’t just the artists (and the fans who bought tickets at $60 a pop) who were donating time and money to the effort. The venue covered costs associated with producing a show of this size including event producers, security staff, backstage services, production elements such as sound and lights, artwork and printing for event t-shirts and posters that will raise additional funds.
In addition to the $300,000 raised from ticket sales, several thousand more dollars was raised by the army of volunteers collecting donations outside the venue before the show.
“The idea is to fill the gap where insurance and government won’t make people whole,” Conrad Lattes of the Boulder Mountain Fire Relief Fund told the Boulder Daily Camera.
Many of the homes destroyed in the fire were underinsured, as was the fire equipment lost in the blaze.
Sixty percent of the donations to the Mountain Fire Fund will be donated to the Boulder Mountain Fire Relief Fund, established to provide support to individuals, families, fire departments and community organizations severely impacted by the fire, twenty percent will be given to the Foothills United Way and twenty percent to the Volunteer Connection.
You can still Donate to the Mountain Fire Fund or text your pledges to 303-720-7292.
Big Time Musicians Raise Big Time Money at Fourmile Canyon Fire Benefit
Phish, String Cheese Incident, Yonder Mountain String Band, Leftover Salmon and Big Heat Todd and the Monsters raise $300,000 for firefighters and victims.
Saturday night’s epic benefit for the victims that suffered from the Fourmile Canyon Fire — and the firefighters that fought it — west of Boulder Colorado in September, is a perfect example of how activism can snowball. The Fourmile Canyon Revival, originally slated to be held at the relatively small Boulder Theater, kept growing because more and more bands wanted to help out. And when all four members of the band Phish, who were slated to begin a three-night run Colorado run, said they would also like to be involved, the event had to be moved to the 6,500-seat 1st Bank Center in nearby Broomfield, Colorado — and it sold out in under an hour.
But it wasn’t just the artists (and the fans who bought tickets at $60 a pop) who were donating time and money to the effort. The venue covered costs associated with producing a show of this size including event producers, security staff, backstage services, production elements such as sound and lights, artwork and printing for event t-shirts and posters that will raise additional funds.
In addition to the $300,000 raised from ticket sales, several thousand more dollars was raised by the army of volunteers collecting donations outside the venue before the show.
“The idea is to fill the gap where insurance and government won’t make people whole,” Conrad Lattes of the Boulder Mountain Fire Relief Fund told the Boulder Daily Camera.
Many of the homes destroyed in the fire were underinsured, as was the fire equipment lost in the blaze.
Sixty percent of the donations to the Mountain Fire Fund will be donated to the Boulder Mountain Fire Relief Fund, established to provide support to individuals, families, fire departments and community organizations severely impacted by the fire, twenty percent will be given to the Foothills United Way and twenty percent to the Volunteer Connection.
You can still Donate to the Mountain Fire Fund or text your pledges to 303-720-7292.
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