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Woodstick Sponsors and Supporters
Woodstick 2007 would not be possible without our sponsors and supporters.
You can support Woodstick 2007 as an organization with a donation, as a business with advertising dollars or in-kind contributions, or as an invidiual with donations and volunteer hours.
In our efforts to raise millions of dollars for hearing regeneration through the research of the Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center at the University of Washington we are seeking all sizes of donations. For Woodstick 2007 we will need thousands of man-hours. Volunteers are urgently needed.
Woodstick Sponsors
Celebrations from the Heart - Celebrations from the Heart is a collaborative effort of Don Burkheimer and a team of extremely talented professionals. Don previously worked for Miramar Productions where he was part of a team that earned 7 Grammy nominations and 5 Platinum rated music videos, working with artists David Lanz, Tangerine Dream, Jan Hammer, Thomas Dolby and Carlos Santana. Don then helped start an independent music video production company Touchstar Productions with Emmy Award winning cinematographer Jan Nickman. Working with world renowned author Dr. Bernie Segal and others, they produced music and nature videos to enhance one's state of well-being. Don is an avid drummer and photographer.
- Comcast - Comcast is a proud sponsor of Woodstick 2007. They have graciously provided us with a marketing package, which includes an interview on the Tony Ventrella Local Edition program AND they are providing us with a producer who will give us a program length program of Woodstick 2007 for On-Demand viewing. Long-time disc jockey and on-air personality Rick Oldenburg will be our on-screen host to provide interviews with participants, volunteers, and celebrity drummers. Thank you, Comcast.
CK Financial - Fee based certified Financial Planning specializing in helping high net worth invidividuals and business owners.
Network Tacoma - Network Tacoma offers transitional housing and supportive services for Pierce County's Homeless Families with Children since 1991. "One Family at a Time" is both a motto and a program title we use to provide case management of homeless families and their children to families that have been working to end the cycle of poverty and despair in their lives. In that capacity we are always glad to partner with local organizations, citizens and churches to gather resources of all types to help remove the obstacles that are in our program participant's path to success. In that, we are always seeking Donations, Volunteers, and Community Partnerships to help make a difference, "one family at a time."
We are proud partners with Tacoma Goodwill (Goodwill International) in a program called : "Wheels To Work". "Wheels to Work" is a Low Income Car Ownership program designed to keep working families employed through the sale of affordable and reliable transportation. A Majority of working people in our area live outside the available range of public transportation, or work schedules that make affordable transportation difficult on a fixed budget. Wheels To Work provides an opportunity for qualified applicants to purchase a car though a no money down, low rate, low risk loan designed to meet their income levels. Financial literacy, safe driving, and preventative maintenance classes are part of our overall program that helps families stay functioning when they are a car problem away from unemployment and even homelessness. "Wheels to Work" is an exciting new program open to all qualified Pierce County Residents, and is looking to expand its growing list of community partners and clients willing to donate time, mechanical ability, capitol resources, auto parts, vehicles, and knowledge needed to keep our clients in the wheels that get them to work.
Donn Bennett Drum Studio - As the northwest’s largest independent drum retailer, Donn Bennett Drum Studio has been working with drummers, from the beginning student to the touring pro, since 1977. Buying, selling and trading, the shop specializes in new, used and vintage drums, and also offers specialty classes and private instruction. Featuring a celebrity drum museum you won’t find anywhere else, and boasting a staff of knowledgeable and courteous drum gurus, Donn Bennett Drum Studio puts the drummer first!
Deaf Digest - Deaf Digest is home of the weekly ezine containing products and information on hearing loss and restoration.
- Seeking Drum Instruction, Drum Lessons, Drum Resources?
If you are a drum shop, drummer, drum instructor or have a Web site related to drumming, we are compling a list of drummers, drum teachers, drum instructors, drum shops, professional drummers, drum videos, drumming Web sites and more. Let us know if you are interested in being listed, too. Drum on, drumlesson.us!
- Check out Drum! Magazine for Drum News, Forums, Media Reviews, Top Stories and More.
Drum! Magazine is a sponsor of our Drum Raffle. This special day of the event raffle will five some lucky winner a chance to have their drumming photograph published in Drum! Magazine. This is truly one of those "priceless" values.
- For Featured Drummers as well as news and events . . . and education, check out Modern Drummer Magazine.
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The Drummer's Directory - Website Sponsor - The Drummer's Directory has 947 listings for drummers, making it a hub of drummer knowledge.
- Drum Radio features famous drummers world-wide.
Emerald Queen Hotel and Casino - The Emerald Queen Hotel and Casino is located one mile from Port of Tacoma and four miles from both the Glass Museum and downtown Tacoma. The hotel allows you to escape the chaos and business of the city yet still be connected. The Emerald Queen Hotel and Casino offers 24-hour front desk, complimentary weekday newspapers, business services, laundry facilities, complimentary parking, safety deposit boxes and complimentary airport transportation. The hotel also features over 17,000 square feet of banquet and meeting space fully equipped with audiovisual equipment and high-speed Internet access. A catering/event staff is available to make your special occasion a memorable one. Guests can enjoy a meal in the Tidehaven Restaurant and Lounge that serves American cuisine for breakfast and Asian cuisine for lunch and dinner. Room service is available.
All 138 guest rooms offer coffee makers, two-line phones, in-room movies, work desks, in-room safes, cable/satellite TV in addition to complimentary newspapers, high-speed Internet access, and free local calls. The rooms also feature full baths, and separate vanities with granite countertops. The Emerald Queen Hotel and Casino takes pride in providing personalized service, which make this hotel the best choice.
The Emerald Queen Hotel and Casino is our official hotel of Woodstick 2007!
- LOUIEFEST is your opportunity to get out there and make some noise, kick some musical tires and make new friends, and even if you haven't played live before, you can help make music history as we ALL play 'LOUIE LOUIE' in unison. WHAT A SOUND THAT'S GOING TO BE !!! In fact it's a sound that's only been heard a couple of times before, at our previous LouieFest music festivals. And this year it's going to be bigger, louder, and a complete, total, happening, music ever!
"It doesn't matter if you play twelve strings, six strings, four strings or one. When you hear 'Louie Louie' playing, you just got to dance."
There will be an attempt to set a Guinness World record of the most guitars playing "Louie Louie" the international (we say galactic . . . ) anthem of Rock 'n' Roll, together: bands, solo performers, electric guitar players, electric bass players, acoustic guitar players, homemade players, participate in our attempt to set a new Guinness World Record.
- Craviotto Drums
- Ludwig Drums
- Mapex Drums
- Sonor Drums
- Gretsch Drums
- Latin Percussion Drums
- Gibraltar Hardware
- Remo Drum Products
- HTS Audio
- Promark Drumming Accessories
- Vic Firth - The World's Largest Manufacturer of Drumsticks and Mallets
- Sabian Cymbals
- Evans Drum Heads
Hard of Hearing Hall of Fame - This website is a celebration of achievement for those with hearing loss. Visit and make your own suggestions and find out more about hearing loss prevention as well.
- Radio station KINK in Portland: streaming audio live online from Portland, Oregon. Download podcasts of artist interviews, streaming video, concerts in Portland. Listen on air and online to Les Sarnoff and Rebecca Webb, Dave Scott, Sheila Hamilton, BA, Bob Ancheta. This is a CBS radio station.
- Radio station KGON in Portland plays classic rock.
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- Radio station KMPS in Seattle/Tacoma: Our Official Sister Radio Station.
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- Radio station KZOK in Seattle/Tacoma: Our Official Radio Station.
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- Jazzbones is one of the best nightclubs in the Greater Tacoma Area. You can hear great local talent as well as top professional muscians as they tour the Northwest. From Reggae Funk to Blues you'll find talented performers at Jazzbones. Check out their website for special promotion nights and their monthly calendar of events. Sign up for their newsletter to find out the latest information on local and traveling artists. You can make reservations online for tickets as well as dinner reservations. The food is top drawer and the talent is exceptional. Stop in and enjoy Jazzbones.
Mack's Ear Care - Since 1962, McKeon Products, Inc. has led the retail ear care industry with its original and #1-selling Mack's® Pillow Soft® silicone earplugs. Today McKeon manufactures a full range of moldable and pre-molded silicone and foam earplugs for a variety of uses. The Mack's® line of products also includes a sleep mask, ear drying aids, lens wipes and earwax removal drops. Mack's Ear Care is supplying our earplugs for Woodstick 2007!
PNW Video Productions - They say that Don Doman may not know everything about video production for business, but he did write the book. Producing a First-class Video for Your Business is a bible for anyone considering having a video produced for distrubution or internet use.
One of the prizes for the Main Raffle will be two nights accommodations at the Queen of the Vallen Inn Bed & Breakfast in La Conner, Washington. The Queen of the Valley Inn Bed and Breakfast is ideally located for exploring both the quaint village of La Conner and the adjacent miles of Skagit Valley farmland. The valley is world-famous for its spectacular displays of flowers (daffodils, tulips, irises and many more) in the spring. Summer offers the bounty of the area's produce, as well as plenty of sunshine for sailing and kayaking. Fall brings the changing colors of nature, apple harvests, corn-mazes and sincere pumpkin patches. Winter is an excellent time to enjoy bird-watching, including bald eagles, snow geese, trumpeter swans and raptors.
Susan K. Walters - Susan has been a resident of Washington State for over 37 years. She has worked in non-profit fundraising for 18 years. The last six years she has worked as an independent consultant focusing on special event coordination and grant writing. She has worked for non-profits in the arena of education and social services.
Music has always been a big part of her life. Her husband has played in and out of bands for the past 35 years, his love for the blues has driven his recent founding of the The Walter Guy Band, a Portland based blues band. Her oldest son, Keaton plays the drums and will be a participant at Woodstick ‘07, and her youngest son Kyler is just learning to play the guitar.
Susan has witnessed first hand the effects of hearing loss with her older brother Darrell who spent 6 years in the Air Force. He worked in a security capacity leading pilots to their planes. This left him with 60% hearing loss. Mrs. Walters is excited to support this very worthy project.
Another of our prizes for the Main Raffle is two nights at the Tayberry Victorian Cottage. The Tayberry is the perfect retreat for Northwest visitors. Centrally located - day trips are convenient to every attraction; from Seattle to Mt. St Helens, Mt Rainier in the Cascade Mountains to Pacific Coast Beaches. Warm, comfortable accommodations, delightful decoration, quiet, peaceful surroundings and the most competitive of rates make this the perfect weekend getaway or vacation headquarters. In this charming Victorian, with claw foot tubs, wrap around porch, fabulous hot tub and tin-ceilinged kitchen, guests from around the world have enjoyed and returned again for privacy, warm hospitality, delicious breakfasts and wonderful memories. Deluxe accommodations, rich in charm and amenities, at competitive rates = an affordable luxury you will want to return to.
The Tacoma Weekly - How do you find out what’s happening in your community? Pick up a copy of one of Pierce County Community Newspaper Group’s (PCCNG) community newspapers: Tacoma Weekly, Fife Free Press or Milton-Edgewood Signal. Our philosophy is to cover local news and events tailored to the communities we serve. While other newspapers often stretch out their coverage over a wide geographic area, we choose to focus on specific cities. PCCNG, a locally owned and operated newspaper organization, has been the proud publisher of its flagship newspaper Tacoma Weekly for 20 years. Over the past two decades, Tacoma Weekly has developed a solid reputation as a reliable source of information for Tacoma. Our emphasis is on events that impact the lives of our readers – action taken by local governments, how local high school sports teams are faring, what’s happening on local stages and where to go when readers have free time to enjoy. PCCNG also publishes two newspapers serving suburbs of Tacoma. The Fife Free Press covers news from the city of Fife, Fife School District and local businesses. The Milton-Edgewood Signal serves the cities of Milton and Edgewood, covering news from both city governments as well as local school and business news.
Ted Brown Music - Ted Brown opened the doors to his new music store, Ted Brown Music, his primary product was pianos. The obvious supplement to this was sheet music. Band Instruments came in next to support the product line and make a well rounded music store. During the mid 40's, in the midst of WWII, all metal was diverted to the war effort so band instruments were not even made. Needing to get things to sell, Ted called on his many friends and contacts in the business world. While he couldn't get musical instruments, he could get things like model planes and watches. This was enough to keep people coming in so that when inventory became available, customers shopped first with him. The business grew by adding televisions, home stereo systems and records.
We were there from the start of rock and roll, with Elvis, Buddy Holly and all the rest. Ted's son, Warren, came to work full time in 1958. He recalled that one of his favorite window displays was where he put out a single color TV set and filled the window of the downtown store with colored balloons. It looked as if the television was floating and it was a spectacular way to introduce the new color sets! It was only a few short years later that Warren took over full time as President of the company. The 1970's saw a change away from televisions and stereos to better focus on the school music needs. This was the advent of the Educational Services Program. The 1980's saw closure to the sale of acoustic pianos but reintroduced electronics and Pro Audio. We now had sound systems and lighting to fill the needs of the school/church market. In the late 80's two of the Brown's daughters, Stephanie and Whitney, joined the company. Stephanie ran the Richland Store and Whitney was at our Evergreen Plaza Store. The three continued to work as a team out of the new store on Tacoma Mall Blvd. On July 1st 2004, Warren announced that Whitney Brown-Grisaffi will succeed him as company President. Stephanie Brown-Howe has been named Vice-President. As you can see, Ted Brown Music has seen a lot of changes over the last 76 years. What has stayed the same is the family's dedication to the music community and helping people enjoy music.
Woodstick Supporters
Clover Park Rotary Club - The Clover Park Rotary page focuses primarily on the great things we do in the local community since Rotary International does such a great job of talking about the world projects. From its inception the club has enjoyed a great fellowship attitude and participated in numerous community activities. Some fellowship activities included a dine-around program, halloween costume parties and children's Christmas parties. Adopting Southgate Elementary School has been the club's brightest achievement. Initially club members helped the school's staff with funds for equipment. This grew into a program of personal visits to classrooms and culminated with a program giving all youngsters in a sixth grade class virtually a full scholarship to a college or tech school if they qualified. To fund the program the members conducted annual rose sales, an invitational dinner, raffles, golf tourney and other fund raisers.
Rotarians for Hearing Regeneration - Rotarians for Hearing Regeneration; A Rotarian Action Group formerly know as The International Fellowship of Rotarians Affected by Hearing Loss (IFRAHL), sponsored by Clover Park Rotary Club, has received Rotary International approval as an Action Group. RFHR's purpose is to unite Rotarians around the world to create more awareness of the problems associated with the loss of hearing. These problems impact the individuals and their families as well as our society with both economic and personal loss. The Action Group will also promote interest in research and the funding of the Hearing Regeneration Initiative at the Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center at the University of Washington.
Rotary Club of Tacoma #8 - The Rotary Club of Tacoma #8 was organized early in 1910 after insurance agent Harry Pelletier attended a meeting of Seattle Rotary #4. With the Seattle club's assistance, the first meeting of the Tacoma chapter was held on January 29, 1910. The club was incorporated on February 2, 1910 and the new Tacoma chapter became the 8th club in the world of Rotary International. Seventy members were listed in the club's roster in 1910. Today, the membership has grown to more than 400 members who are part of a diverse group of professional leaders working to address various community and international service needs and to promote peace and understanding throughout the world. Our members are our most important asset. They are the force that allows Rotary to carry out its many humanitarian efforts and achieve its mission.
Tacoma Area Coalition of Individuals with Disabilities - The Tacoma Area Coalition for Individuals with Disabilities (TACID) was formed in 1980 of four disability organizations representing the Deaf, blind, multiple sclerosis and physical disabilities. Two of these organizations are still active and involved. TACID incorporated as a 501(c)(3) non profit corporation by the end of 1980. The TACID Center was built under Referendum 37. Through this initiative the voters of Washington approved $25 million in general state obligation bonds for facilities to train, rehabilitate and care for handicapped persons. In TACID's case the Referendum agreement enabled a new, fully accessible community center to be built at a cost of $1 million on the grounds of Tacoma Community College, South 19th Street, Tacoma. This fully accessible facility opened in 1984. Over the years since then the range of support groups, disability programs and other activities has grown.
Tacoma Exchange Club -The Exchange Club of Tacoma is a non-profit, service organization. The club provides hands-on opportunity for community volunteers and also assists other worthwhile programs with grants. Weekly meetings are generally held each Thursday morning. The meetings start at 7:00 a.m. and usually have a community speaker as a program. The meetings are lively and enjoyable. There is virtually no ceremony. The meetings are over by 8:00 a.m. or shortly thereafter. Guests are always welcome. We meet at Alterra Villas on Union Park, 2010 So. Union Avenue. Come and join us for breakfast!
Woodstick 2007
P.O. Box 881037
Steilacoom, WA 98388
(253) 759-6639
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