Shangri-La Entertainment, Tuff Gong Pictures and Milyoni has announced that Academy Award-winning director Kevin Macdonald’s definitive documentary about the legendary musician Bob Marley will be the first U.S. release ever to be made available for streaming on Facebook the same day as its theatrical release, April 20. A portion of the proceeds from the film’s Facebook sales will benefit Save the Children.
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Jack Johnson is releasing a new live album in April, with proceeds to go to charity.
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Two iconic forces that have impacted the past 50 years – the life-saving human rights activism of Nobel Peace Prize-winning Amnesty International and the incomparable artistry of Bob Dylan – are being saluted by 80 musicians who contributed new or previously unreleased recordings to Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International.
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Marley Family matriarch and reggae icon Rita Marley, and her son, Grammy Award winning musician, Ziggy Marley and Rohan Marley have been joined by other members of their family to announce a $100,000 donation to charity:water from 1Love.org, a not-for-profit business created with the Marley Family to create awareness and a sustainable flow of contributions to benefit charitable organizations that empower youth, protect the planet and encourage global peace. charity: water is a non-profit organization bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations.
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Poker legend Annie Duke and Life Rolls On founder, Jesse Billauer, are set to host the 1st Annual “A Night of Poker” on May 7 in Gardena California to benefit Billauer’s Life Rolls On Foundation.
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Willie Nelson and Woody Harrelson will host a very special charity poker tournament later this month.
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Ziggy Marley’s charitable organization, URGE (Unlimited Resources Giving Enlightenment), recently held its biannual health fair at the Cedella Booker Basic School in Nine Mile, Saint Ann, Jamaica – the birthplace of Ziggy’s father, Bob Marley.
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Jack Johnson will once again host the annual Kokua Festival Earth Day weekend in Hawaii in April to benefit charity.
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Singer Katy Perry has joined with Cyndi Lauper, Yoko Ono and hip hop group N.E.R.D. to design T-shirts as part of H&M’s second Fashion Against AIDS collection.
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Ziggy Marley – the son of the late Bob Marley – celebrated his 40th birthday last week by auctioning off the chance to join him in the studio for a day to one lucky fan.
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A major worldwide fashion store and a charity set up by artists and fashion designers have initiated a campaign to help raise money and awareness for HIV/AIDS projects.
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MySpace.com has led a campaign entitled Rock For Darfur — a series of concerts across North America in which the participating big-name bands donate portions of their ticket sales to Oxfam’s relief efforts in Sudan and neighboring Chad. October 21st saw more than 20 concerts unite rock, pop, reggae and country artists for a common cause.
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