Animal Protection Voters kicks off its 2016 fundraising campaign with Howl and Be Heard, two benefit concerts (one in Albuquerque, one in Santa Fe) featuring internationally acclaimed musician Dana Lyons.
WHAT: New Mexico is filled with political animals, and on June 18 and 19, 2016, they will all come together to raise their voices in unison like never before. Animal Protection Voters (APV) presents Howl and Be Heard, two benefit concerts featuring international music sensation Dana Lyons, best known for his dynamic performances and outrageous hit songs “Cows With Guns,” “RV,” and “Ride The Lawn.” A global radio and web hit, “Cows With Guns” was #1 for the year on Dr. Demento, #2 on the Australian Country charts, #1 in Seattle, and spent six months on the Irish Top 40. Media is invited to interview Lyons before the concert via phone or in the studio. Please encourage ticket sales by directing your viewers and listeners to apvnm.org/events.
WHEN: Lyons will perform live during Howl and Be Heard on June 18, 2016, 7:30 p.m. at Outpost Performance Space, and June 19, 2016, 3:00 p.m. at APV’s contemporary Santa Fe office. Tickets to the Albuquerque show are $25 and tickets to the Santa Fe show are $35 through apvnm.org/events. The Santa Fe show will offer light appetizers and a cash beer & wine bar.
WHERE: Outpost Performance Space, 210 Yale Blvd SE, Albuquerque, NM 87106, and APV’s Santa Fe Office at 1111 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, NM 87501.
PRE-PERFORMANCE INTERVIEWS & VISUALS:
- Please feel free to distribute the attached flyer in your print, website, and social media.
- Dana Lyons: Lyons is available for phone interviews at any time before the event and in-studio interviews can be arranged in the week and days leading up to the concert weekend. Please contact Sara Palmer, Communications Director for APV, at 505-908-0622 or sara@apvnm.org to arrange interviews. Please see Lyons’s media kit at http://cowswithguns.com/about-dana/press-kit.
- Jessica Johnson: Johnson, Chief Legislative Officer for APV, is available to discuss APV’s work across the state to create, implement, and monitor humane laws for animals. Please contact Johnson at jessica@apvnm.org or 505-220-6656 for interviews.
- Elisabeth Jennings: Jennings, Executive Director for APV, is available to discuss the impact APV and animal-friendly laws have on people and communities in New Mexico. She can discuss the 14-year history of the organization, including its many successes, such as helping to establish a state-wide ban on cockfighting in 2007.
DANA LYONS BIO
Bringing together a mix of comedy, ballads, and love songs, Dana’s sharp wit and beautiful voice have him performing at concert halls, festivals, conventions, fundraisers, and universities across the US and around the world. Dana’s music style includes a bit of everything; his biggest radio hit, “Cows With Guns,” receives crossover radio play on country, rock, alternative, community, college, and oldies radio stations worldwide. He has nine releases to date, including his latest, The Great Salish Sea, released in March 2014.
Dana has toured in 46 of the 50 American states, around the East Coast of Australia, and across Ireland, England, New Zealand, Mexico, Kazahkstan, and Siberia. Dana performs at festivals ranging from Farm Aid with Willie Nelson and Neil Young to the Harley Davidson Festival in Sturgis, South Dakota, where he shared the stage with Lynyrd Skynyrd, Steppenwolf, Nazareth, and Blue Oyster Cult. His policy of “I’ll play anywhere once” has landed Dana gigs on a tropical island in the Great Barrier reef of Australia, an Irish Pub in Beijing, and the Hanford Nuclear Waste Dump in his home state of Washington.
Two of Dana’s songs have been made into award-winning illustrated books: Cows With Guns, published by Penguin (winner of the Bullitzer Prize), and The Tree, published by Illumination Arts. The Tree was endorsed by Dr. Jane Goodall, has forewords by Pete Seeger and Julia Butterfly Hill, and has won numerous awards.
Read more at: http://cowswithguns.com/about-dana/biography/#sthash.yvbA5sBs.dpuf
ANIMAL PROTECTION VOTERS
Animal Protection Voters, a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization formed in October 2002 in New Mexico, has a mission to:
- Actively promote and support animal-friendly legislation at the local, state, and federal levels;
- Build an effective political voice for animal advocacy in New Mexico; and
- Hold New Mexico’s elected officials accountable on animal issues.
APV works with legislators, non-stop and year-round, to pass laws that will change animals’ lives for the better. And during the legislative session, APV staff are at the state capitol every day, making sure the laws we need actually get passed. We never take the pressure off until the laws are in place and are being enforced.
Read more at: http://www.apvnm.org/about-us/
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
For additional information or to RSVP to cover one or both of the Howl and Be Heard events, please contact Elizabeth Wolf, Chief Development Officer for APV, at elizabeth@apnm.org or 505-933-1123.
