College

An exciting opportunity has presented itself for Strings With Wings on the Gulf Coast. Nothing is official yet, I will keep an update and make an announcement of facebook when I can. :)

So, I am not sure if many of you know or not but I am about to leave for college!! I move in on August 14th and will be attending the University of Southern Mississippi. Go Eagles!!
I hope everyone has had a laid back summer as I know that the school year gets crazy busy for us students as well as the adults.

I have made a twitter account for SWW you can follow us at www.twitter.com/stringsww <-(it would not let me write our whole name so I tried coming up with something that wasnt too confusing, let me know if you have any problems.)

Well I wanted to make sure I posted something before my life got crazy busy again lol. I will try my best to keep up with the blog...bye!

SUCCESS

Our benefit dinner was last night. We had around 20 couples show up, even though we only had half the people show than last year we made $2,000.00 more than we did last year. T

The silent auction this year brought in around $3,000.00 and the dinner brought in $2,000.00. We made a little over $5,000.00.

I just want to thank everyone that came out to support us in this endevor. Its people like you that make dreams come true, thank you!!!

Ticket Info.

As you know our benefit dinner is coming up on April 26th 2009.

Pick-up tickets

We have sent all the tickets out to the following locations:
Hillyer House (Ocean Springs)
Lavish Hair Salon (Down town Biloxi)
Negrotto's Gallery (Biloxi)
Salute Italian Restraunt (Gulfport)

On-line tickets
If the following locations are too far for you. You can email strings.with.wings.info@gmail.com to reserve your tickets for the 'pre-sold' ticket price ($65)

If you are reserving a corperate table, please say so in your e-mail; include the number of persons that will be attending along with their first and last names, if possible.

Address checks to: Strings With Wings

Mail checks to: P.O Box 1252

Biloxi, MS 39532

Benefit Dinner Events

Live music:
Live music will be provided through out the whole evening. We will have talented youth and adults playing all geners of music; from classical quartets to jazz piano. Our host for the evening will be Dr. Timothy James Bergman, Director of the Gulf Coast Symphony Youth Orchestra. http://www.gulfcoastsymphony.net/

Silent Auction:
Due to popular demand, doors will open at 6:00 p.m for our silent auction. The auction will include over 5 painted violins from well known artists across the Gulf Coast as well as many other items.

Four course meal/ Four wine pours:
First course will be served at 7:00 p.m along with your first pour of the evening. The dinner will last to 8:30.

All proceeds will go toward supporting current and future projects of Strings With Wings, inc.

Mexico Summer Trip

With everything going on with the drug cartels on the U.S/Mexico border we are having to post-pone our summer trip down to Saltillo, MX.

However, we are looking at going down maybe sometime during Christmas or this fall of 2009.

At our last meeting we have decided to start a new program called a

Sponsor-a-Musician
This program is when a family or corporation adopts a child in our music program in Mexico. Your monthly payment will go toward his/her private lessons as well as saving money for the child to come to the United States to study violin. We have decided to take the top 5 students who are older than 12 years old. We will host them in homes on the gulf coast.

If you have any questions or if your interested in helping us please leave a comment or e-mail me.

I will keep you updated

Invite

Save the date!!! *April 26, 2009*

Hi,

We are having our benefit dinner April 26th 2009 at Salute Italian restaurant.
Doors will open at 6:00p.m. for Silent Auction followed by first course at 7:00p.m

We are pre-selling tickets,

pre-sold tickets cost $65.00 per person
tickets at the door $75.00 per person
corporate sponsor table up to 10 costs $1,000.00 (inquire for more information)

You can inquire more information at strings.with.wings.info@gmail.com and berriesntoast@gmail.com

We do have an Executive, Advisory and Teen board meeting today. I will keep everyone updated and let you know how everything is coming along.

Have a nice day!!!