Musicares Foundation, Inc.

 Santa Monica     California

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A partnership has been formed by the GRAMMY Foundation and MusiCares with the Starkey Hearing Foundation. Starkey Hearing Foundation's team, led by founder William Austin, joined us for GRAMMY Career Day on Feb. 7 at the University of Southern California. They donated approximately 300 hearing instruments (with a retail value of more than $900,000) to an estimated 150 Los Angeles-area children experiencing hearing loss. Starkey Hearing Foundation will also support MusiCares by providing hearing tests, screenings and information at health fairs and clinics around the country.
On May 6, 2007, nearly 300 jazz musicians who make up the rich scene of local jazz music in Seattle gathered on the steps of Seattle City Hall for a historic photograph. The photo, taken by Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Daniel Sheehan, replicates the now famous "A Great Day in Harlem" shot in 1958 of many of New York's finest jazz musicians that went on to become an important historical artifact in the history of jazz music. The results of the Seattle photo, "A Great Day in Seattle," are now available in the form of limited-edition posters sold for $20 each at www.agreatdayinseattle.com. The posters, along with 20 original framed prints signed by all of the artists in the photo and signed and numbered by Sheehan, are being sold for $2,500 each, with all proceeds going to MusiCares.
MusiCares and the MusiCares MAP Fund have produced a compelling new series of informational videos with artists. These short pieces cover a variety of topics — from addiction and the challenges of getting sober to life on the road and the benefits of sobriety — and offer intimate portraits of successful music people dealing with their own recovery or that of their band members. The videos feature Bob Forrest, Dave Kushner, Ozzy Osbourne, and Slash, as well as manager Bill Siddons. In addition, the page features Alice In Chains' Jerry Cantrell and Sean Kinney with Metallica's James Hetfield and Robert Trujillo performing "Them Bones" at the 2006 MusiCares MAP Fund Benefit Concert.