Give Back: Girls Rock! Seattle

Tonight Girls Rock! Seattle will host a "50 Shows in 50 States" fundraiser at The High Dive, featuring performances by Goodness, The Redwood Plan, Eighteen Individual Eyes, and Alicia Dara. The fundraiser is part of a nationwide effort to raise money and awareness for Girls Rock! Seattle and the Girls Rock Camp Alliance (GRCA), an international coalition unifying girls’ rock camps and girls’ music projects around the world. The goal of the fundraiser is to hold 50 shows in 50 states on the same day to benefit the cause.

Girls Rock! Seattle, formed this year, is the newest addition to the GRCA coalition, with a mission to "build positive self-esteem in girls, and encourage creative expression through music." In August, Girls Rock! Seattle held its first annual week-long summer camp for 39 girls, ages 9-16, where the girls received instruction in guitar, bass, drums, and vocals, wrote original songs, formed bands, rehearsed the whole shebang, and performed live at the end of the week at The Vera Project.

Currently Girls Rock! Seattle is entirely managed and supported by volunteers, receiving bookkeeping, PR, and legal support from independent contractors. The program hopes to eventually see enough growth to support a full-time staff and a year-round schedule of programs.

Doors open @ 8:00 p.m. // The High Dive , 513 N 36th St. # G // tickets $10, all proceeds benefit the Girls Rock Camp Alliance and Girls Rock! Seattle