'Friendraiser:' REACH companions with Adamas Leisure for Christmas profit present - Smoky Mountain Information

On Saturday, Dec. 3, the pair hopes to carry folks collectively at Frog Stage Brewing’s occasion area for Jingle Jam, a profit present for REACH that may embrace seven up-and-coming, native acts. 

“Music is simply so common, it brings us all collectively,” stated Schneider. “We’re so loopy divided proper now. One of many issues that music does is it brings us collectively. I really like this city, I really like residing right here. What higher purpose to placed on a present than to probably assist girls, kids and households from dire straits?” 

Jingle Jam will host 12 straight hours of dwell music and communion. Andrew Scotchie & David Earl will open the present from midday to 1 p.m., Appalachian Renegades will observe from 1-2:15 p.m. The night will proceed with performances by Arnold Hill, Jackson Grimm Band, Pink Beds, The Get Proper Band and Abby Bryant & The Echoes. On Friday evening Adamas will host a pre-party at The Scotsman in Waynesville with music from the Tricia Ann Band, the place tickets can be on sale for the following day’s occasion. 

“The chance to see all of those bands collectively in a single place for such a terrific trigger is one thing that’s by no means occurred in Haywood County, ever. And that was the purpose,” stated Schneider.

Tickets for the present value $12 and friends are inspired to return and go as they please, having fun with all downtown Waynesville has to supply through the vacation season. All earnings will profit REACH of Haywood County. Along with ticket gross sales, organizers are searching for native companies and group members to sponsor the occasion at totally different ranges and obtain model visibility in addition to VIP tickets to the occasion. 

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“Since that is the very first 12 months, we have a look at this as what we name a good friend raiser as an alternative of a fundraiser,” stated Freeman. “So we’re going to be there in full power the day of the occasion, get our title on the market, have our info there and let the group know what we do and the providers that we will supply these in disaster and in want.”

REACH is a neighborhood 501(c)(3) nonprofit group that gives help to survivors of home violence, sexual assault and elder abuse. It gives a plethora of providers to the group, together with a 24-hour helpline that connects victims of home violence with entry to providers, emergency shelter for survivors and youngsters displaced from their house, courtroom and authorized help for survivors within the judicial system, counseling for survivors of home abuse and everlasting housing help to assist survivors transition to a protected house. 

Whereas that is the primary Jingle Jam, the companions hope the collaboration will proceed with an annual profit present in years to return. 

“We look ahead to the partnership with Adamas Leisure and Frog Stage Brewing,” stated Freeman. “So we hope that individuals present up and have time. That’s additionally a giant a part of it. Have time and benefit from the music.”

REACH of Haywood County receives over 50% of its funding from the area people, whether or not that be municipalities, the REACH thrift retailer, United Method of Haywood County or native donors and supporters. Federal and state funding make up the smaller half of funding. 

“That’s why this profit is so vital for us,” stated Freeman. “Our final fundraiser for our company, which has all the time been an integral a part of ensuring that we will meet the wants of those that come to us, was in 2019. We weren’t in a position to do any native fundraising through the pandemic.” 

Whereas fundraising alternatives could have stopped through the pandemic, wants for REACH providers solely elevated. The group was pressured to attempt to accommodate elevated want whereas coping with employees limitations attributable to well being pointers. 

“The 2 important will increase that we noticed, primary was a rise for psychological well being providers,” stated Freeman. “We offer particular person counseling for adults and that quantity doubled all through the pandemic and continues to be extraordinarily excessive. Then the opposite was our courtroom employees. They noticed a rise within the want for protecting orders through the time.”

As the tip of the 12 months and the vacation season had been approaching, Schneider had a nagging need to provide again to the group he lives in and cherishes. 

“REACH is what instantly got here to thoughts,” stated Schneider. “They’re a direct hyperlink. When you’ve got a problem or an issue these persons are there. It is a approach that we will all assist folks out, make a direct affect on our group, for the higher.” 

Schneider has spent over 20 years within the music business, first, as a sound engineer on the largest area in South Florida, after which as a manufacturing supervisor for the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra. The names of the numerous musicians and bands that Schneider has put onstage over time — from Madonna, to Ray Charles and Pavarotti — sound just like the lineup of any music freak’s dream competition; inconceivable in breadth and depth. 

Although the thought for Adamas Leisure, a manufacturing firm bringing dwell music to rural Western North Carolina, sprouted over a decade in the past, the corporate bought its begin about three years in the past, simply earlier than the world dove headfirst into the stillness of the pandemic and the shutdown of the dwell music business. 

Whereas these preliminary years have been tough, the manufacturing firm has survived for 2 causes. Initially, it’s a labor of affection. After years spent within the music business, Schneider started constructing homes for a change. Nevertheless it solely took so lengthy earlier than his ardour caught again up with him and he knew he wanted to be bringing folks collectively once more. Second, as a result of it’s a household affair. Schneider’s son is Adamas’s stage supervisor, and his daughter-in-law runs the books.

Schneider’s finest good friend, Adamas co-founder and Smoky Mountain Information Arts & Leisure Editor, Garret Okay. Woodward books the acts. 

“Music is the one factor all of us have in frequent, whether or not it’s songs we like, bands we like, or dwell exhibits we would discover ourselves at,” stated Woodward. “For each individual at a specific present there’s a selected purpose they’re there, and in that second, the frequent denominator being a shared love and keenness for an artist or band. There’s one million explanation why somebody likes a tune or finds themselves at a live performance, however the soothing impact of the music is the shared expertise between everybody current on each side of the microphone.”

“The underside line was, we now have a love for music, we now have a love for the group, it’s so stunning right here and music simply brings all of it collectively,” stated Schneider. “This place exemplifies the innate nature of our love for music, fellowship and our environment.” 

And whereas Schneider appears ahead to each single present Adamas is ready to placed on for the group, this one holds a particular place in his coronary heart. 

“It’s greater than Adamas Leisure,” stated Schneider. “Adamas Leisure is enjoyable. REACH is life or loss of life in some instances.”

Wish to go?

A fundraiser for REACH of Haywood, the inaugural “Jingle Jam” will characteristic a full day of dwell music and fellowship on the model new occasion area at Frog Stage Brewing in Waynesville.

Offered by Adamas Leisure, the occasion will happen from midday to midnight Saturday, Dec. 3, at 40 Commerce Avenue. The occasion will characteristic an array of acclaimed regional acts, together with Abby Bryant & The Echoes (indie/soul), The Get Proper Band (rock/jam), Pink Beds (indie/rock), The Jackson Grimm Band (Americana/people), Arnold Hill (rock), Appalachian Renegades (Americana), and Andrew Scotchie & David Earl (indie/people).

Admission is $12 per individual for “Jingle Jam.” The Fuego meals truck may also be onsite. To buy tickets, you are able to do so the day of the occasion or go to eventbrite.com and search “Jingle Jam Waynesville.” Sponsorships and volunteer positions are additionally presently accessible.

A “Jingle Jam” pre-party can be held with the Tricia Ann Band from 9 p.m. to midnight Friday, Dec. 2, at The Scotsman in Waynesville. The pre-party is free and open to the general public.

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