About Rock4Cause Productions
Rock4Cause Productions is a musical promotion organization with the goal of raising money for a most noble cause - the Joe Chithalen Memorial Instrument Lending Library (joe's MILL). Combining with our passion for live music with desire to see this worthy cause succeed, we have made it our mission to see that the gift of music is given a chance to thrive in everyone.
But it's not just another show that hands money to joe's MILL. While we are a completely independent from joe's MILL, we're working closely with their staff and board of directors while organizing these events. We want to make this a sustainable event that we can host 4-6 times a year or more to ensure that joe's MILL is constantly stocked with the instruments and accessories that they need to sustain operations.
We also want to raise awareness of the invaluable resource that joe's MILL is. They enrich our community by giving the opportunity to people to be able to learn an instrument. Music is a form of expression that everyone should have the chance to experience if they wish to do so. By lending musical instruments for free to the public like a normal library lends books, give people, particularly children, the opportunity to be able to learn an instrument, when otherwise they might not have had the chance to.
We also want help promote and give much-needed exposure to Kingston-area rock bands by giving them well-promoted, well advertised events to perform at. By teaming up with joe's MILL, we're helping a great cause and we can get more coverage in the local media to help promote not only the show and joe's MILL, but to expose the bands to a much larger audience than they would otherwise be exposed to.
Each show, we want to get a different mix of locals bands in styles ranging from hard blues all the way to (less extreme) metal. We want to try to have a wide a palette of the different sub-genres of rock music as possible to showcase as much of Kingston's local talent as possible.
About joe's MILL
Joe's MILL is located in the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Kingston in the old Roberk Meeks school at 536 Bagot Street. The entrance is around the back at the south end of the building. Their telephone number is 542-3306 ext.28 (voice mailbox ext.62). Anyone can borrow instruments from joe's MILL, all they need is photo I.D. Instruments may be borrowed for up to one month, and can be renewed depending on demand. Their hours of operation are Tuesdau to Friday, 3-7pm and Saturdays, 10am-4pm. Drop in and check them out. Tell them Rock For Cause Productions sent you.