Chandelier Peachy: The Chandeliers at The Sony Playstation Theatre in Times Square
We visited with The Recording Academy's Musicares, when Adam Clayton of U2 was honored:
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Mission
MusiCares provides a safety net of critical assistance for music people in times of need. MusiCares' services and resources cover a wide range of financial, medical and personal emergencies, and each case is treated with integrity and confidentiality. MusiCares also focuses the resources and attention of the music industry on human service issues that directly impact the health and welfare of the music community.
We'd encourage you to watch this video under "Featured Videos", which in being shared during the event was a highly moving and effective method of communicating the mission:
About MusiCares®:
· Established in 1989 by The Recording Academy®, MusiCares® is a nonprofit health and human service organization that helps members of the music industry in times of financial, medical, and personal hardship.
· As a leading charity of The Recording Academy, MusiCares provides a support system of innovative programs and services that includes:
· emergency financial assistance.
· workshops, health fairs, and free clinics offering a full spectrum of primary and preventive services by medical professionals on a monthly basis.
· the MusiCares MAP Fund®, which allows access to addiction recovery treatment and sober living resources.
· Safe Harbor Rooms®, weekly addiction support groups, and the MusiCares Sober Touring Network® that provide ongoing recovery support.
· By the end of the fiscal year on July 31, the MusiCares safety net of services will have provided over $5 million to more than 7,000 members of the music industry—the largest number of annual clients and dollars distributed in the charity’s history
· Over the past 10 years, MusiCares has provided close to $10 million dollars in assistance to nearly 3,000 substance abuse clients.
· Across all of its programs and services, MusiCares has served more than 100,000 clients since 1989.
· Since 1989, MusiCares has distributed $48 million to music people in need.
Other musical artists performed prior to U2, who were perfection with Stuck in Moment, Vertigo and I Will Follow. They epitomize true friendship as evidenced over four decades and if we only listened to U2 and nothing else forever, we would not mind being stuck in that eternal moment. Adam's speech was highly touching so scoll up and listen to it again; you will appreciate all U2 music that much more and understand how The Recording Academy and MusiCares is so much more than one night of awards annually; their devotion to the music community is constant and you should participate in their charitable work.
