Healing Time
We are nearing the end of a rough financial year, but I’m sure that each and every one of us still have many reasons to be thankful.
This time of year is about helping others — the food banks at the supermarket, the bellringers with their kettles…. In a time when many people are losing their homes, our artist Josh Charles is helping to rebuild them, and you can too. All you have to do is download a 99¢ song.
Josh is donating his song Healing Time
to help rebuild the homes — and lives — of residents still struggling in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana. In a new and revolutionary partnership with Amazon and Tunecore, 100% of Healing Time
will be donated to the Preservation Resource Center for New Orleans, which helps build green, sustainable homes in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans — among the hardest hit areas.
Josh was mentored by Dr. John, and was in the process of making New Orleans his home when Katrina hit. He was forced to get on one of the last buses to Houston and evacuate. He was scheduled to record the day after Katrina roared through town, claiming lives and flooding homes and businesses. Three months after the storm, Josh returned to find people displaced, heartbroken, and hungry. Troubled by images that will never leave him, he wrote Healing Time
. The song speaks of hope for a better tomorrow.
Our initial goal is to obtain 150,000 downloads by New Year’s Eve, the cost of building one home through the Preservation Resource Center for New Orleans. Please take the time to go to the following link and download Healing Time
. And please post this to your Facebook if you have one, send out a bulletin on Myspace, and email your friends, family and business colleagues. Everyone can afford 99¢, and collectively we can help rebuild New Orleans and put folks back in their homes.
Thank you! Wishing you a warm, safe and happy holiday season.