Melia Clapton & Lisa Climie On Turn Up For Recovery, Working With Sofar Sounds & More
A non-profit born out of Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival, Melia Clapton’s Turn Up For Recovery recently announced a partnership with Sofar Sounds. A company which has arranged secret, intimate pop-up musical events in hundreds of cities around the world, Sofar Sounds is now working with Turn Up For Recovery to raise awareness for the organization and also the problems of addiction which Turn Up For Recovery is working to address on an international basis.
One such event will be taking place on March 5, 2020 in New York City. As with all Sofar events, this New York event will be an intimate one and exclusive sources told The Hype Magazine that it will be taking place at a beautiful apartment in TriBeCa. It will feature sets by three diverse acts with no headliner. Attendees are e-mailed a day before the show with the address of the Sofar; they don’t find out who’s playing until they arrive. The March 5th show in New York is the first U.S. show in the on-going collaborative series between Turn Up For Recovery and Sofar series, with a London, England event set for April 29 and a Los Angeles, California outing already announced for May 2020.
I had the pleasure of speaking with both Melia Clapton and Lisa Climie (an artist manager who works with Clapton on this great cause) by phone one day prior to the New York event about working with Sofar Sounds, future plans for Turn Up For Recovery, and recovery as a whole. Audio of the full March 2020 interview with both Clapton and Climie is embedded below for your listening pleasure.
More on Turn Up For Recovery can be found online at www.turnup4recovery.org, while Sofar Sounds has more information online at its official website, www.sofarsounds.com.
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Darren Paltrowitz Darren Paltrowitz is a New York resident with over 20 years of entertainment industry experience. He began working around the music business as a teenager, interning for the manager of his then-favorite band Superdrag. Since then, he has worked with a wide array of artists including OK Go, They Might Be Giants, Mike Viola, Tracy Bonham, Loudness, Rachael Yamagata, and Amanda Palmer. Darren's writing has appeared in dozens of outlets including the New York Daily News, Inquisitr, The Daily Meal, The Hype Magazine, All Music Guide, Guitar World, TheStreet.com, Businessweek, Chicago Tribune, L.A. Times, and the Jewish Journal. Beyond being "Editor At Large" for The Hype Magazine, Darren is also the host of weekly "Paltrocast With Darren Paltrowitz" series, which airs on dozens on television and digital networks. He has also co-authored 2 published books, 2018's "Pocket Change: Your Happy Money" (Book Web Publishing) and 2019's "Good Advice From Professional Wrestling" (6623 Press), and co-hosts the world's only known podcast about David Lee Roth, "The DLR Cast."
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