GIVE Seattle 2009

GIVESEATTLE.ORG

Seattle coffee roaster Caffe Vita in collaboration with 40+ Seattle artists, businesses and nonprofits will release GIVE, a downloadable music and video compendium to benefit Arts Corps, Seattle's largest nonprofit arts educator, along with Ballard Food Bank, Rainier Valley Food Bank, University District Food Bank and West Seattle Food Bank. A full 100 percent of sales will go directly to GIVE beneficiaries...

 
GIVE is a snapshot of the incredible creativity and diversity that defines Seattle's music community in 2009. Among the musicians who have contributed tracks, nearly all of which are exclusive to GIVE, are artists:

D. Black, Fatal Lucciauno, Champagne Champagne, Mad Rad, Common Market, Fresh Espresso, The Saturday Knights, Fleet Foxes, The Cave Singers, The Moondoggies, Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie, Head Like a Kite, Dutchess and The Duke, Hey Marseilles, Visqueen, The Maldives, Sera Cahoon, Throw Me the Statue, The The Blakes, The Lonely Forest, David Bazan, Joshua Morrison, Fences, The Long Winters, Grand Archives, Arthur & Yu, Pica Beats, J. Tillman,  Kinski, Le Loup, Gabriel Mintz, Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band, Pearly Gate Music, Talbot Tagora, Tea Cozies, and Unnatural Helpers.

The $7 compilation - conceived and initiated by Caffe Vita, which is producing, curating and funding the project - will be available online at www.giveseattle.org, as well as in Caffe Vita shops, Easy Street Records, Sonic Boom Records, University Book Store, The Crocodile, Sorrento Hotel and Neumos.

The full list of partners for GIVE includes: 206 Inc., Barsuk Records, Caffe Vita, CD Forge, City Arts Magazine, Creature, The Crocodile, Easy Street Records, Expanding Brooklyn, Hardly Art, Chase Jarvis, KEXP, Lighthouse Consulting, Robert Mercer, Minuteman Press, Neumos, RFI/CD, SEATTLE CITY OF MUSIC, Sonic Boom Records, The Stranger, Sub Pop, Tap Plastics, Steve Viehmann, Wexley School for Girls and Megan Woo Web Design.

For more information, please visit GIVE online at giveseattle.org