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Our friends at Ear Candy are giving away 10 pairs of 3 day passes to the 2010 McDowell Mountain Music Festival which will be at a new location this year (see the Google Map Below). Each Pair of tickets is valued at $200.

The Contest starts today and runs until April 9th.

If you aren’t familiar with the McDowell Mountain Music Festival, it is an annual three day music festival with a wide variety of bands, food, and fun for all. The best aspect of the McDowell Mountain Music Festival is that all the proceeds from the event go directly to local charities. This year, Ear Candy has been marked as one of two recipients of proceeds from this festival. This festival WILL be Ear Candy’s biggest fundraiser this year.

Ear Candy, is a 501(c)(3) approved Non-profit devoted to countering the cutting of arts budgets in the state of Arizona by providing a wide variety of music education in elementary schools. Founded in 2007 by Nate Anderson (below), Ear Candy provides numerous programs to help children get exposed to the world of music.

In the greater Phoenix area many music programs in many school districts have been the victim of school budget cuts. Arts programs seem to always be the first programs to go when this happens.

This is where Ear Candy steps in.

Ear Candy provides not only musical instruments but exposure to the world of music through in-school classes, after school programs and even meeting major musical artists. If you would like to see examples of some of the events Ear Candy puts on check this out. The power of music has the ability to touch many lives as many of you know. However, kids coming up in area schools are not exposed to the many wonderful aspects of music and are at risk from not getting a balanced education.

Since Ear Candy is a non-profit organization, they need donations to be able to impact the most people possible. Via the contest links above and below, you can donate money or instruments to help Ear Candy sustain music programs in schools. They don’t even have to be brand new instruments to be able to be donated. Ear Candy will accept ‘gently used’ instruments as well.

Ear Candy’s goal this year is to impact over 10,000 children in the Phoenix area but they need YOUR help to be able to reach their goal! Please take the time out to help such a wonderful charity if you can!

To enter the contest and for more information about the wonderful things Ear Candy are doing in our community please refer to the link below:

http://www.earcandycharity.org/McDowell-Mountain-Music-Fest.aspx

Here’s some more information on the wonderful work and the impact Ear Candy has in the Community:

Here’s the lineup of artists for this year’s McDowell Mountain Music Festival:

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Our good friends at Ear Candy have teamed up with Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood to provide you with three great ways to help out Ear Candy Productions, an amazing charity in the Greater Phoenix Area, and provide you with the potential to walk away with some EXCELLENT Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood memories.

First off, Ear Candy is auctioning off the ONLY premier seats to the Eric Clapton/Steve Winwood show.  You can bid on these tickets now but keep in mind, the deadline for the auction is Friday, June 26th at 2:00 PM Arizona Time.  The winner will be notified by Ear Candy on how and where to pick up the tickets.

To bid on the tickets just follow this link!

http://www.earcandycharity.org/Charity-Auction.aspx?Id=9

Secondly, on the night of the concert you will have the opportunity to enter a raffle to win Eric Claption/Steve Winwood merchandise inside and outside of the Jobing.com Arena.  Prizes include Exclusive Clapton/Winwood Madison Square Garden Concert DVD’s, Tour T-shirts, Tour Programs, and other cool Clapton/Winwood schwag.  Just look for the Ear Candy booths inside and outside the Jobing.com Arena.

Finally, Ear Candy Volunteers will collecting donated instruments at the Ear Candy booth outside the concert.  For every instrument donated donors will receive an Ear Candy T-shirt, Two Raffle tickets for the contest mentioned in the previous paragraph.  All instrument donations are tax deductible and Tax forms will be available at the Ear Candy Booths.

Don’t miss this opportunity to help out a tremendous charity.  If you need a refresher on what Nate and the great people at Ear Candy are doing for your community, please read this:

http://www.earcandycharity.org/About.aspx

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First off don’t forget to check out our new ‘Things to do to beat the heat’ feature! Some great ideas to get out of the triple digit tempratures!

http://www.azvibe.com/phoenix-entertainment/2009/05/20/fun-things-to-do-to-beat-the-heat/

1) Tickets for Tool’s show at the US Airways Center on July 21st  go on sale Saturday May 30th at 10 AM.  Tickets will be $59.50 and $49.50 and can be purchased at all Live Nation outlets and from Live Nation’s website.

http://www.livenation.com

2) The Phoenix Mercury are playing a preseason game against the Seattle Storm Saturday May 30th at the US Airways Arena.  Tip off is at 7:00 PM.

http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/1E004251FEEE8C99?camefrom=CFC_BUYAT_azvibe&brand=[%3DBRAND%3D]

Don’t forget the Phoenix Mercury Ticket giveaway for this game (Deadline is today at noon!):

http://www.azvibe.com/phoenix-entertainment/2009/05/27/free-ticket-give-away-from-the-phoenix-mercury/

3) Arizona Diamondbacks – Chase Field – That’s right folks! Another
season of Arizona Diamondbacks baseball is underway! Come and see your
Diamondbacks take on some of the best teams in the league and battle
their way to the playoffs! Tickets can be purchased through the Arizona
Diamondbacks website:

http://arizona.diamondbacks.mlb.com/ticketing/index.jsp?c_id=ari

4) Star Swim returns for another summer!!! – After the Phoenix Fire Department pretty much shut them down last summer (500 people in a 50 person capacity pool will do that), the masterminds behind Star Swim are back for another summer. The party has moved to the Wyndham Hotel’s Pool and is sure to be another great classic party. For more information and the bands/artists scheduled to appear please check out the Star Swim website: http://www.starswimphx.com

5) Movies under the Stars – WaterDance Film Festival – Every Friday
Through June at the Westgate City Center in Glendale – 8:00 PM – Free -
See the link below for more information.

http://www.azvibe.com/phoenix-entertainment/2009/04/23/westgate-city-center-hosts-the-first-annual-waterdance-film-festival/

6) Shake! – Every Saturday Night – Rogue Bar – Scottsdale – $5
(approx) If you are a frequent reader of this site you know that one of
the best places to go on a Saturday night is Shake!. Great Music and
fun for a great price!

http://www.azvibe.com/phoenix-entertainment/2008/10/27/review-shake-the-rogue-saturday-october-25th/

7) FUSE – Bar Smith – Friday Nights – $5 – Bar Smith – Downtown Phoenix – 10PM – 2 AM

8) 5th Annual Crush Auction to benefit Cystic Fibrosis  – Check out the amazing Bachelor and Bachelorette  Auction for charity.  For more information, please refer to the following link.

http://www.ravenevents.com/MonthlyEvents/05302009/

9) Salt River Tubing – It’s getting into the triple digits again so
that must mean that it’s that time of year to start floating down the
Salt River.

http://www.saltrivertubing.com/

10) This is the final weekend for the Midnight Movie Mamacita at the Chandler Cinemas.  They are looking for a new location so don’t worry, they’re not going anywhere.  As a Celebration, they are going to have a Disco double feature with the John Travolta Classic ‘Saturday Night Fever’ followed by the Italian rip off ‘The Lonely Destiny of John Travolto’.

Saturday Night Fever will be showing this Friday at 9 PNM and Saturday at 5 and 9 PM.

The Lonely Destiny of John Travolto will be showing this Friday at 11 PM and Saturday at 7 and 11 PM.

They will be giving away free schwag at the 9PM showings on Friday and Saturday night.

http://www.chandlercinemas.com/

11) The Dale Chihuly exhibt at the Desert Botanical Gardens ends its amazing run Sunday at the Desert Botanical Garden.  Don’t miss this chance to see some great art by one of the glass blowing masters.

http://dbg.org/index.php/chihuly

12) Don’t forget the Downtown Phoenix Public Market – Weekly on Wednesdays from 4 to 8 PM and Saturday from 8 AM to Noon.

http://www.foodconnect.org/phoenixmarket/

13) Rock Cold Candy – Music from 5 to 7 PM – The Kierland Commons is hosting a free concert of classic rock music from 74th Street.  Furthermore, Cold Stone in the Kierland Commons is donating 25% of the day’s proceeds to our friends at Ear Candy Productions with MidFirst Bank matching Cold Stone’s Contributions.

Concert Tickets that go on sale this coming week:

- Bonnie Raitt and Taj Mahal – September 24 at 7:30 PM at the Dodge Theater- Tickets go on Sale June 1 at 10 am at all Live Nation Ticket Outlets and from Live Nation’s Website http://www.livenation.com

- Maxwell – June 29th at 7:30 PM at the Dodge Theater- Tickets go on Sale May 30th at 10 am at all Live Nation Ticket Outlets and from Live Nation’s Website http://www.livenation.com

- Tori Amos – July 18th at 8:00 PM at the Dodge Theater- Tickets go on Sale June 1 at 10 am at all Live Nation Ticket Outlets and from Live Nation’s Website http://www.livenation.com

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As you may or may not know, we here at AZ Vibe are huge supporters of Ear Candy and the wonderful work they are doing in the community.  We will take every opportunity we can to help support and get the word out about every event that Ear Candy is putting their name behind!

With this weekend’s Tempe Music Festival the folks at Ear Candy have cooked up a great deal for everyone who donates a new or ‘gently-used’ instrument at the festival.

When the gates of the festival open this Friday at 4:30 PM, bring your new or gently-used instrument and all who make a donation will get to meet Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers from 5:30 to 6:30 Pm.

Everyone who brings an instrument to donate on Saturday will be entered in a drawing for  Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers as well as Tempe Music Festival Prize packages.

All instruments collected at the festival will be re-distributed to children in the community who do not have the opportunity to play or be a part of musical programs.

If you have never heard of Ear Candy and the wonderful work they do in the community you really need to check out their website:

http://www.earcandycharity.org/About.aspx

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Ok by now you’ve probably read about what the amazing folks at Ear Candy Productions are doing over the next couple of months with their Instrument Drive.

If you haven’t, PLEASE read this article before continuing as this is an extremely noble effort that is going on.

On Friday December 5th starting at 6:30 PM the Hard Rock Café in Downtown Phoenix will be hosting the kick-off concert for the Ear Candy Instrument Drive.

The line up for the Show is as follows:

Random Karma
The Preserve
BS (AC/DC Tribute Band)
The ROWYCO All-Stars featuring members of Guns N Roses and Quiet Riot.

In addition, Fender Guitars will be hosting a Rock Band Stage out of the back of a car.

The instrument drive and kick off party is shaping up to be one of those events that will be remembered for many years to come. Don’t miss out on the fun. Tickets are $25 and will sell out!

FYI this is a 21 and over event.

For more information please refer to the Ear Candy Products web page:

http://www.earcandyproductions.org/Event.aspx?Id=10

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Starting December 1, 2008 through the end of January 2009, the wonderful folks at Ear Candy Productions are launching an Instrument Drive.  Ear Candy Productions are asking all residents of Phoenix to donate any new or ‘gently used’ instrument to any one of 30 drop off stations around the greater Phoenix area (a drop off station map can be found here).

The people that benefit from the Instrument Drive is the core foundation that Ear Candy Productions is built on:  making sure children have an opportunity to have their lives enriched through music.  All instruments “will be used to help revive and create music programs in schools, camps and youth organizations near the area they are being collected.”

If you don’t have an instrument to donate, you can still help out Ear Candy Productions by making a donation in numerous ways.

If you have an instrument to donate, please do not pass up the opportunity to give the gift of music this holiday season!

More information and details about where to drop off your instrument can be found here:

http://www.earcandyproductions.org/Instrument-Drive.aspx

To learn more about the wonderful organization that Ear Candy Productions is you have to check out their ‘About’ Page:

http://www.earcandyproductions.org/About.aspx

If you would like to support the wonderful work that Ear Candy Productions does for the community, they offer numerous ways you can support this amazing organization:

http://www.earcandyproductions.org/Support.aspx

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