Ways for musicians to give to charity.

Here at Rave On we're all about giving back, in fact, we feel it's a responsibility that we have to our community, be it local or global. For that reason most of our artists are hooked up in some way to one charity or another, through cd sales or live events etc.

For Haiti specifically, we have artists who have donated tracks to Paste Magazine's Campaign (see last post below), some who are donating partial proceeds for merch sales and some who are raising money at gigs - and today I received this email from CD Baby -

"Starting on Monday, January 25th and continuing for two weeks, we will donate $1 of our cut from every CD sale through our website, and $1 from every download sale over $8.99 on our site, to the American Red Cross and to Mercy Corps, a Portland-based relief organization with a large presence in Haiti. "

So here are two great ways to give and you don't have to do much, but let people know that maybe now is a really good time to buy your CD and/or point people to Paste where they can get some downloads of great music in exchange for their donation.

We all have a responsibility to take care of each other out there - and you don't have to be U2 to help out with your music - just use your voice.

I know it must seem like someone always wants something, And I understand compassion fatigue, but these are super easy ways to help out and be involved.