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Location: Houston, Texas
Posted:
Wed Sep 27, 2006 10:33 am
Sonoma Mountain Entertainment artist Melanie Dekker is launching her new CD Revealed in the U.S. aboard the USS Hornet during this year’s TroopFest held in Alameda, California on September 30, 2006. Melanie will be on the roster with an impressive list of recording artists who will perform on the aircraft carrier museum hangar deck for 3,000 servicemen, their families and the public who are expected to attend the five-hour benefit concert and festival sponsored by the American Red Cross, Operation: Care and Comfort, which raises funds to send care packages to US Troops abroad.
Melanie Dekker with her label, Zabit Records, have pledged $1 for each copy of Revealed sold exclusively through CD Baby for the first one million records sold. CD Baby, an international record distributor headquartered in Portland, Oregon, through President and Founder Derek Sivers, is also matching $1 for a total of $2 million pledged to the cause. Proceeds will go to selected foundations to benefit wounded soldiers and their families.
Joined: 12 Aug 2003 Posts: 1694
Location: Houston, Texas
Posted:
Wed Sep 27, 2006 10:47 am
Melanie Dekker, a Canadian singer/songwriter and international performer, worked with world-renowned producer David Kershenbaum to produce Revealed, that will officially be released September 29, on Zabit Records, a division of Sonoma Mountain Entertainment.
The album includes the single "Fall in/Wounded Soldier", which was written by Melanie on her self-sponsored trip from Vancouver, Canada to the Hamptons in New York where she played at a benefit for The National Wounded Soldier Foundation.
Melanie Dekker will perform during Troopfest’s five-hour benefit rock concert on the hangar deck of the USS Hornet with other musicians and artists including Greg Kihn, Grammy-winning recording artist Tony Lindsay, Chris Jackson of FM 98.5 KFOX, the Cocktail Monkeys, and Doghouse Riley.
Admission includes a BBQ lunch, aircraft carrier tours, sponsorship tables, drill team and color guard competitions and a raffle featuring a Grand Prize 12-day cruise for two from Holland America Line and other raffle prizes including an American-made Fender Stratocaster guitar signed by classic rock artists including Greg Kihn, Steve Miller, George Thorogood, Joe Satriani, and others.
Tickets are $25 for adults, $15 for teens aged 12-17, $7 for kids aged 5-11, children ages 4 and under are free. Military admission is available for $10 with valid military I.D. Tickets may be purchased at the USS Hornet Museum or at Streetlight Records, at 980 South Bascom Avenue, San Jose, Customer Service Realty, 2155 South Bascom Avenue, San Jose, Santa Clara Valley Chapter of the American Red Cross, 2731 North First Street, San Jose or online at Troopfest.org.
Fro more information on Troopfest 2006, contact Julie DeMaria at Operation: Care and Comfort at (408)373-8635.
