Hold a Reef Fest concert to celebrate IYOR

Reef Fest is an International Year of the Reef 2008 (IYOR) activity that supports coral reef conservation through organizing concerts and other music venues (much like "Live Aid" type concerts).

Donations derived from entertainment fees collected at concert venues are uploaded directly to a special 501(c)3 non-profit organization (the Reef Fest Fund). Those funds will (at the end of 2008) go to support various coral reef conservation efforts throughout the world. The plan is that significant funds derived from the events will go BACK to the country/region where the funds originated, or where stipulated in the donation upload.

Reef Fest concerts are easy to set up. Major Reef Fest concerts are now being organized for Saturday, March 22, at Tobacco Road, in Miami, Florida, and Saturday, July 5, in Davie, Florida, just before the 11th International Coral Reef Symposium . (If you are going to the Symposium, you may want to go early and catch some great music!) Other clubs local to the South Florida area have already been supporting weekly and monthly events.

Reef Fest is supported by NOAA, White Water to Blue Water, Guy Harvey, Inc., the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, the National Coral Reef Institute, several local Florida clubs, and others.

To learn more about the Reef Fest experience, actually setting up a Reef Fest concert in your area, or helping out in this endeavor, please see the Reef Fest Web site, the musician and club MySpace site, or the Reef Fest Fund site.

For further information, please contact info@reeffest.org.