| About: The Front Lines Tour is not just a musical tour; it is a tour for change and unity. The crew of the Front Lines Tour will be traveling around the nation for seven weeks, engaging with America’s most impoverished and disenfranchised neighborhoods through music, workshops, block parties and other community action. Our group is made up of eight recording artists, two videographers, a photographer, and a journalist. As artists, we believe it is our social responsibility to use art and creativity to share current information, strategies, and support with the people of our nation who are fighting for justice in their lives and their homes. Our group will be partnering with local community organizations at each stop on the tour. We will be supporting the organizations with community service during the days and one of the nights, we will be putting on a concert. Of the money raised at the concerts, 50% will go to the local community organization and 25% will go to a local emerging artist. The remaining 25% will go toward travel expenses for the tour. We decided to organize the tour in this way because we know that as musicians we often go into a community to do a performance and remove money from the community through ticket sales. We wanted to do it differently; we wanted to give back to the communities and there is no better way to do so than by helping to fight on The Front Lines. |
