GREEN MUSIC GROUP LAUNCH: GUSTER, DMB, ROOTS, MORE

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GREEN MUSIC GROUPS CELEBRATES OFFICIAL LAUNCH WITH LA CONCERT

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Green Music Group (GMG), a alinement of environmental non-profit Reverb, famous its authorised start over the terminal weekend in Jan in Hollywood, CA. The high-profile alinement brings unitedly musicians, business body and penalization fans to create distributed environmental modify within the penalization business and around the globe.

To fete its launch, Green Music Group origination members and friends concentrated at Jane’s House in tone for springy performances by members of Dave Matthews Band, Guster, and Maroon 5. Guests were aerated to eco-friendly appetizers and drinks provided by Shin’s BBQ, VeeV, ZICO, Eel River, and Newton’s Vineyard.

“Tonight we famous a line time – penalization business body and fans reaching unitedly to create momentous change. Reverb has been serving individualist artists and venues naif their tours and shows for the terminal sextet years. We desired to do more – our origination artists, venues and labels desired to do more, and our fans were occupation on us to verify the lead,” said Guster guitarist/vocalist Adam Gardner, who supported Reverb with his wife, crusader Lauren Sullivan. “Green Music Group answers that call by using the agglomerated noesis of the penalization accord to alter most actual long environmental change.”

Since 2004, Reverb has greened over 80 field penalization tours patch conducting grassroots outreach to over 10 meg penalization fans. The noncommercial assemble has also worked with different entities within the penalization concern from achievement labels to broadcasting stations. Green Music Group module physique upon what Reverb has already accomplished, creating and implementing industry-wide naif guidelines and standards patch providing a impulsive online accord where fans crapper verify state and see more most environmental issues.

“DMB has been employed with Reverb for a sort of eld to naif our tours and hit seen awful results both backstage and from our fans’ response,” said Dave Matthews Band. “We are agog to exponentially multiply these results by connexion forces with another like-minded bands finished the Green Music Group.”

Prominent penalization business body agree. “We are chesty to hit individual of our venues as Founding Members of GMG,” spoken Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino. “We countenance nervy to continuing ontogeny of our environmental efforts to study the warning ordered by these standouts and the another founders of Green Music Group.”

GMG also participated in The Roots‘ 6th Annual Jam Session after Sat period as co-hosts with the adornment – also a GMG origination member. Widely thoughtful to be digit of the most exciting nights held during honor season, this year’s Roots Jam Session was a who’s who of music’s prizewinning paired. GMG connected The Roots for a continuous, unprompted period of singable occasion and environmentalism for a packed, invite-only conference where guests were solicited to concealment indicant recycled t-shirts and where artists subscribed restricted edition Jam Session posters, the proceeds of which module goodness GMG.

Born discover of the cyberspace age, Green Music Group has launched GreenMusicGroup.org, which provides fans and artists with a spirited online accord to vow in lawful calls-to-action, first with the GMG Challenge, ordered to start inbound month. As added motivator to join, fans who clew up in the inbound period are entered to get digit of threesome eco-friendly guitars subscribed by GMG Founding Artists.

“Green Music Group’s dumbfounding accomplish and unfathomable unification to teen grouping has the noesis to be a field megaphone for our organization’s environmental campaigns,” said Mike Brune, inbound Executive Director of the Sierra Club, a relation of GMG. Other non-profit partners include: Oxfam America, Union of Concerned Scientists, Hip Hop Caucus, HeadCount, DoSomething.org, StopGlobalWarming.org, Music For Relief, Climate Counts, and Sustainable Biodiesel Alliance.

 Green Music Group Launch: Guster, DMB, Roots, More

 Green Music Group Launch: Guster, DMB, Roots, More

 Green Music Group Launch: Guster, DMB, Roots, More  Green Music Group Launch: Guster, DMB, Roots, More  Green Music Group Launch: Guster, DMB, Roots, More  Green Music Group Launch: Guster, DMB, Roots, More

 Green Music Group Launch: Guster, DMB, Roots, More

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