Posted By: C. Harrison
MUSIC BRINGS LIFE TO HOLD “CODE RED CONCERT” AND BLOOD DRIVES TO PROMOTE BLOOD AWARENESS IN NEW YORK CITY
Urban non-profit initiative announces its 2015 program to obtain blood donations from diverse populations
New York, NY…..Music Brings Life Inc., a non-profit blood awareness organization, is taking an innovative approach to ensuring a stable community blood supply within New York City’s minority communities. The Brooklyn-based organization will hold a free concert and Summer blood drives to educate people in the Black, Latino and Caribbean communities about the importance of donating blood.
The CODE RED Blood Awareness Concert will be held on Friday, May 15, from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. at St Francis de Sales School (260 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11225). This free concert will promote Music Brings Life’s three Summer blood drives, which will be held inside Brooklyn Borough Hall (209 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201) on Wednesday, June 10, Wednesday, July1, and Wednesday August 5. Performers at the CODE RED concert will include dancehall and reggae superstar Serani as well as Music Brings Life President and Founder Keenan “Special” Bristol, who will perform his original song, “Superman 1, 2, 3 Away,” in keeping with the organization’s slogan of “Heroes Donate Blood.”
“In order to make people want to donate blood, we first need to get their attention, ” said Bristol. “As a performer, I try to accomplish this through music.”
“When one unit of blood is donated, it gets broken into components that can be used to help as many as three patients,” explained Bristol. “You are a hero when you donate blood because you are helping save lives.”
The first 200 people who come out to donate at Music Brings Life’s three Summer blood drives will receive a free ticket to the 5 Alarm Blaze Music Brings Life Blood Awareness Concert on Labor Day Weekend. That concert will feature live performances of the hottest Caribbean music artists on the scene.
Over the past four years, Music Brings life has held several “blood awareness concerts” in Brooklyn that doubled as blood drives. To date, the organization has raised over 3,000 pints of blood for the Black, Latino and Caribbean communities in New York City.
Music Brings Life’s partners in 2015 are Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams, the American Red Cross and Sickle Cell Thalassemia Patients Network.
For more information about the CODE RED concert and blood drives, visit www.musicbringslife.org
Founded in 2009, Music Brings Life Inc., is a 501 (c) (3) not-for- profit organization that educates young people in the Black, Latino, and Caribbean communities about the importance of donating blood.
