Goose steps up with fundraisers for Brown victims
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The Connecticut band performed simply minutes from Brown on the evening of the capturing. Now their public sale to profit Brown college students has already raised $16K in 24 hours.
On Saturday evening in Windfall, a placing dichotomy of pleasure and terror: Inside Amica Mutual Pavilion, Connecticut jam band Goose was performing “Goosemas,” their annual vacation present. Exterior the venue, a metropolis terrified.
Some two miles away, a mass capturing at Brown College left two useless, 9 injured, a metropolis in panic, a campus on lockdown, a manhunt in a pandemonium of strobing lights.
On Thursday afternoon — simply hours earlier than the six-day manhunt would lastly finish in Salem, New Hampshire — Goose introduced each a merchandise fundraiser and a weekend-long public sale working by means of 6 p.m. Sunday evening. All proceeds from each go to the Brown group and victims.
“We’re deeply saddened by the occasions that occurred at Brown College this previous weekend,” they said in an e-mail and on social media. “Our hearts are with the victims and their households, the Brown College college students, and the larger Windfall group that so graciously welcomed us into their residence.”
As of this writing, the Goose & Western Solar Basis Public sale for Brown College College students has raised some $16,000 in lower than 24 hours.
The web public sale, that includes “a number of one-of-a-kind objects from the weekend” — signed Goosemas setlists from each nights, the carnival-barker-like stage posters (“The Man who belonged to the Moon!”) — will profit the Brown College Scholar Emergency Fund, which “supplies quick monetary help to college students impacted by disaster, displacement, or sudden loss,” per the band’s assertion.
“These funds assist cowl important wants corresponding to housing, meals, journey, and different pressing bills — making certain college students can stay protected, supported, and targeted on their schooling throughout a troublesome time,” they said.
You may bid till 6 p.m. Sunday. Followers can even make a straight donation by way of the positioning.
In the meantime, a separate fundraiser. They’re additionally promoting a particular “Love Brown” variation of their live performance tee “together with a restricted quantity of leftover occasion merchandise from the weekend.” All proceeds “from all merchandise gross sales will profit the GoFundMes established to assist the victims and their households,” the band states.
The “Goosemas Crystal Ball Tee” ($40) exhibits a smattering of iconography that matches the evening’s Eighteen Nineties madcap carnival vibe — an enormous high, clown face, take a look at your energy sport, a juggling monkey — with “Love!” “Brown!” popping up within the left nook close to a circus performer.
Many on social media appreciated the gesture:
“I used to be shocked they nonetheless had the present however I used to be kinda glad. Was questioning should you guys would make an announcement. Thanks for considering of us!!!”
“Thanks for doing this … Since Saturday, it has continued to sink within the gravity of what was taking place so near us … whereas we had been having the time of our lives, there have been so many individuals scared and terrified.”
“Thanks guys for doing this. My spouse and I had been on the present whereas our Brown pupil son was in one of many school rooms. This implies lots to us!”
You too can donate to the funds immediately right here. Learn extra on the chaos of Goosemas, each good and dangerous, right here. And extra methods to donate right here.
Lauren Daley is a contract tradition author. She could be reached at [email protected]. She tweets @laurendaley1, and Instagrams at @laurendaley1. Learn extra tales on Fb right here.
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