Something Wicked Music Festival Launches Charitable Programs
Totalling Over 165K to Aid Hurricane Harvey Recovery Efforts
Houston, Texas October 23, 2017— As Texas recovers from one of the most powerful storms to hit the state in decades, Houston’s Halloween music festival, Something Wicked Music Festival, has announced a large-scale charitable initiative totalling over $165,000 to aid recovery efforts. The 6th annual music festival is promoted by Disco Donnie Presents and is held yearly at Sam Houston Race Park, which was spared from the impact of the hurricane. The festival will be held Saturday Oct. 28 and Sunday Oct. 29th and the line up includes artists such as Above & Beyond, Marshmello, Tiësto, Zeds Dead, RL Grime, along with dozens more national and international artists.
The Something Wicked charitable initiative engages the Salvation Army, Houston Food Bank and Habitat for Humanity to receive donations with support from promoter Disco Donnie Presents and all of the artists, including significant donations from headliners Above & Beyond, Tiësto and Marshmello. The initiative involves the following components:
- $95,000 artist donation program to benefit the Houston Food Bank.
- Disco Donnie Presentsto match fan gifts during ticketing checkout to benefit theSalvation Army up to $25,000 USD (club or festival events): https://www.discodonniepresents.com/events
- $25,000 donation to theSalvation Armyfrom a Sept 16 benefit concert at Spire, featuring Jauz and Ghastly
- $15,000 donation toThe Houston Food Bankfrom The Houston Strong benefit concert on Sept 29 in partnership with Kayzo, also featuring Breathe Carolina and Must Die
- $5,000 donation toHabitat for Humanity.
- Fan food drive at the festival gates to benefit theSalvation Army.
- Skilled festival staff labor donations toHabitat for Humanity the week of the festival.
““Harvey was a devastating storm, and our hearts and minds go out to the millions affected, including the thousands of our fans in Texas along with their families. Many fans asked if we would continue with the event after the storm, and we realized what this event meant to them,” said Disco Donnie Presents CEO Donnie Estopinal. “We know these charities excel at swiftly putting relief donations to work in the areas they’re needed most and our fans are the heart of the festival. It is in times of need that we discover the full impact of the electronic music fan community.”
The safety of Disco Donnie Presents fans is the company’s top priority. The festival’s promoter hosts more than 500 events throughout Texas annually. In addition to the Something Wicked charitable initiative, Disco Donnie Presents has focused on charitable initiatives to aid those affected by Hurricane Irma. Matching gifts are also available through Disco Donnie Presents ticketing platform to assist in Hurricane Irma and Maria relief efforts. On September 13, Disco Donnie Presents CEO, Donnie Estopinal personally funded and organized multiple boats that delivered relief supplies to the British Virgin Islands.
For more information, please contact:
SiouxZ SVP of UG Strategies Media
PR For Something Wicked Music Festival
Phone: 917.328.1593
About Disco Donnie Presents
Disco Donnie Presents is an award-winning, recognized leader in electronic dance music event production company, founded by veteran promoter James “Disco” Donnie Estopinal. Since the company’s inception in 1994, DDP has produced over 8,000 live events, arena shows, and outdoor festivals in over 100 markets around the world, including the US, Mexico, Canada and Latin America. DDP, both on its own and through partnership, develops innovative and strategic business opportunities in live entertainment. In 2017, Disco become part of LIVESTYLE Entertainment. The current LIVESTYLE portfolio includes Disco Donnie Presents, React, Life in Color, ID&T (Tomorrowland, Sensation), Beatport.com, Electric Zoo, Stereosonic, and more.
About SWF
Founded by Disco Donnie Presents and now in its seventh year, Something Wicked Festival is a two-day event that features over 50+ international DJs and artists from around the globe performing at Sam Houston Race Park, which was not impacted by Hurricane Harvey. This year, DDP announced a most wicked line up and a new theme: The Asylum, featuring two days of spine-tingling performances from today’s most sinister selectors. Our all-star lineup of international producers includes legendary headliners and emerging talents like Marshmello, Above & Beyond, Tiësto, RL Grime and Zeds Dead, Claude Von Stroke, REZZ, Tchami, Graves, K?D, Buku casting spells on the dancefloor. Explore every crevice of The Asylum starting with massive vibrations in the Shadowlands, where our headlining sets will unfold to a booming bass crypt, and the mesmerizing nature of Mystic Meadows. Haunting production design and special effects will guide you thru the spooky exploration of sound. This Hallow’s Eve, DDP welcomes all to dance on the dark side at Something Wicked.
Houston Food Bank
Houston Food Bank is a private non-profit organization founded in 1982 Houston, Texas and is a certified member of Feeding America, the nation’s food bank network. The Houston Food Bank is America’s largest food bank in distribution to its network of nearly 600 hunger relief charities in 18 southeast Texas counties. Named top charity in Texas by Charity Navigator for financial performance and accountability, the Food Bank provides 74 million nutritious meals to food pantries, soup kitchens, senior centers and other agencies, feeding 137,000 people each week. The organization plans to grow to provide 100 million nutritious meals annually by 2018.
Habitat for Humanity
Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI), generally referred to as Habitat for Humanity or simply Habitat, is an international, non-governmental, and nonprofit organization, which was founded in 1976 by Millard and Linda Fuller. The international operational headquarters are located in Americus, Georgia, United States, with the administrative headquarters located in Atlanta. Habitat relies on volunteer labor in order to construct simple and affordable homes with its partner families, as well as to build community and civil society in the areas in which it works. On Nov. 6, 2013, Habitat celebrated its 800,000th house built, rehabilitated and repaired. The milestone was marked as Habitat announced that — for the first time in the organization’s history — more than 100,000 families had been served in a single fiscal year.
Salvation Army
The Salvation Army, established in London in 1865, has been supporting those in need without discrimination for more than 135 years in the U.S. More than 25 million Americans receive assistance from The Salvation Army each year through a range of social services: food for the hungry, relief for disaster victims, assistance for the disabled, outreach to the elderly and ill, clothing and shelter to the homeless, and opportunities for underprivileged children. The Salvation Army tracks the level of need across the country with the Human Needs Index (HumanNeedsIndex.org). The Salvation Army has served survivors of every major national disaster since 1900. The Salvation Army does not place an administrative fee on disaster donations. During emergency disasters, 100 percent of designated gifts are used to support specific relief efforts.
