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Yellow Bird Project

6 May

I really admire musicians who are not only excellent at what they do (make music) but also use their status and influence to promote worthy causes. The Yellow Bird Project is selling tshirts either designed or inspired by various bands and donating the proceeds of those sales to a charity of the band’s chosing. The charities supported include; Amnesty International, World Wildlife Fund and the Elliot Smith Memorial Fund. For those of you who are concerned about sweat shops, fear not! The designs are printed on American Apparel shirts. All the designs are great but the following are my favourites.

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Bon Iver for Interval House

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Rilo Kiley for the Elliot Smith Memorial Fund

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Elvis Perking for the World Wildlife Fund

To make the whole project even more incredible, they have a theme song written and performed by The Tallest Man On Earth. It is called ‘A Field of Birds’ and you can download it for free here.

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