It's A Beautiful Surprise" concert series is being produced across the country for the benefit of raising funds for the five humanitarian foundations and in continuing their amazing efforts upon the global stage.
The proceeds will be divided among the American Gold Seal Foundation, Kingdom Train Foundation, Hands InService Foundation, Applied BioPhysics Ministries and the Global Phoenix Foundation. Specifically, these five foundations are working to take food and important supplies into the impoverished areas of Africa where the need is desperately urgent.
The American Gold Seal Foundation will supply a life-saving blended food supplement called Golden Nutrients. These Golden Nutrients are a "whole food" that have been proven to bring people out of stage II starvation as well as improve malnutrition to acceptable levels of health.
Combining the efforts of these five foundations will supply the safe transportation and inroads into the areas where people are desperate for the basic needs in life. Each foundation has a unique contribution to make in helping the people who are suffering from the effects of poverty, famine, war and disease.
When the five foundations arrive with the supplies for these people "It's A Beautiful Surprise" from the people of the world who care about and need to uphold all the members of the human family.
Beautiful Surprise Tour 2007
Throughout history God has challenged mankind to measure up to the abundant graces He has showered upon him. He has supported the life He has created with food, water and shelter and He has entrusted mankind with the great responsibility to maintain the beautiful earth and to care for His living creatures.
This responsibility encompasses our human relations and includes working in harmony with each other to achieve His goals. Some of mankind has fallen short of the challenge and allowed ignorance, greed and lack of understanding to lead them astray. Lands have been ravaged; people have been left destitute from war, poverty and disease.
It is time to step up to the challenge and provide examples of what we can do when we are inspired, not by greed or hate, but by love, empathy and compassion for our fellow man. It is time for the wishing well of hope.
Since one of man's most identifiable affections is for music, which for him transcends borders and national differences, American Gold Seal Foundation and Don Cook Productions are collaborating with four major charitable foundations. The result is a magnificent "It's A Beautiful Surprise" concert series using music to provide the awareness and funding for the respective projects. The most pressing goal at this time is the Africa Food Relief initiative.
A SONG OF HOPE
UK songwriter/artist Nick Barclay's song "It's A Beautiful Surprise," lends itself to the heart and soul of our purpose and provides the theme and title of the concert series.
Just as the song empresses the expectation of hope, the theme offers all who attend an opportunity to be a part of the fulfillment of that hope. Many people in the world are clinging to hope day by day and hundreds die every hour.
Our goal is to take major action in bringing their hope into reality and we shall use music to help pave the way.
I. THE TOUR
Our tour will consist of 6 touring acts and a guest celebrity at every performance. Although the venues will be on average 4200 seat capacity, we propose to perform 30 shows in the major cities of the United States and Canada, and plans are in the works for tours on other continents. This will be a yearly event and we hope it will grow bigger each year. This will provide not only an awareness to the foundation's projects, but also create an opportunity for many deserving artists to break into the lineup, and get their music rightfully heard worldwide.
II. THE CAST
Our US/Canada Tour artists will include a wonderful Elvis & Cher look-alike act who will emcee our shows, followed by Nick Barclay (
http://www.beautifulsurprise.com/beautifulsurprise.htm) performing 4 or 5 of his songs, including "Beautiful Surprise," then the Texas rock band Electric Crush (
http://www.electriccrush.net/) , followed by the unbelievable 14 year old blues sensation Patrick Droney (
http://www.patrickdroney.com ) , a wonderful star in the making, singer/songwriter from the UK Kelly Mueller (
http://www.kellymueller.com/) , and the classic rock band from the UK Carmen Pimps (
http://www.carmenpimps.com) , whose name comes from an entirely different meaning than it appears. The second to the last song will feature Nick Barclay again performing "Beautiful Surprise" with the cast and audience participation. The final number will be Elvis doing "If I could Dream".
III THE FUTURE
We will be designing and implementing new efforts from this project such as t-shirts, merchandise, recordings and performance royalties to provide sustained income for the foundations future projects.
This project is a covenant unto itself and it's time to throw our coins up to a wishing well, and put our efforts together into making our world a better place to live and providing the same for those less fortunate.
IV. ARIE CROWN THEATER
Our first concert will be June 19, 2007 at the Arie Crown Theater in Chicago with a pending guest appearance by Willie Nelson and others. Willie would love to come on the show.
Word-Of-Mouth Marketing Campaign
Preceding the mainstream media advertising campaign, we will launch a grass roots word of mouth campaign. This will pre-sell tickets and create a fertile "under the radar" soil for the growth and spread of local buzz and word of mouth about the concert and the purpose of raising the funds from it.
Our approach is to get to the local community from the bottom with our word of mouth campaign and then get to the over all community from the top with the mainstream media. This will charge the word about the concert and create an atmosphere of ready participation by the targeted audiences.
1. Prior to the mainstream advertising we will contact community organizations such as Christian Churches, other religious organizations, local business organizations such as the Chamber of Commerce, Rotary Clubs, BNI, Kiwani and others.
We will give a presentation to these organizations with a 15 second spot that shows the talent in the concert, the responses from people such as themselves and the people in Africa who so need the food and supplies that the concert proceeds will supply.
We will make it possible for people to pre-purchase a ticket in their organizations.
We will submit articles for the local media, such as newsletters, chamber of commerce newsletters, bulletin boards, and other inside publications.
We will create a luncheon where the captains of industries can purchase a table for a determined price. These tables will seat about 10 people.
We will assign captains to each table and they will be responsible for "selling" the seats or, if they should purchase the table themselves, to invite people to the luncheon.
With the purchase of the table there will be a VIP ticket to the concert for each seat and 5 CDs for the audiences.
At the luncheon we will have a speaker, a walk on celebrity (an NFL sports figure, or a Country Western singer, etc.) to speak a few words and give support for the concert, and an extension of the 15 second spot shown at the other community organizations.
We will find the "local hang outs" and frequent them giving away posters and other print materials about the concert.
Provide material on the concert to local High Schools. Many of the concert performers will be young high school age kids and this audience is particularly powerful in spreading buzz and influencing other family members.
We will have give away items with the logo and brand on it. We will saturate the local area "hot- spots" with these materials.
We will set up an 800 number for people to call and ask questions and if they should choose to make a donation prior to the concert. They can also order other concert products available for purchase.
We will approach corporations for donations and also offer VIP tickets.
Mainstream Media Campaign
American Gold Seal Foundation representatives, and Don Cook Productions representatives will do guest appearances on talk shows such as Opera Winfry, Dr. Phil, Jay Leno, Local Christian shows and others. etc. We will show the extended version of the 15 second spot and perhaps have some of the young artists perform a short version of their performances.
15 second spot commercials on local area TV.
PSA'S on local radio, radio promo of "It's A Beautiful Surprise" with our artist CD play.
The Internet world wide feed to radio shows will play a big part in bringing in donations and selling products on the website.
Greenwood & Hill will be our official fulfillment house.
Local TV spots just prior to the concert.
Advertise in the Sunday paper with a large ad three Sundays prior to the concert. During the week we will run smaller ads.
Large show venues can be televised on local stations and national networks.
Christmas show in Chicago on PBS or national network
We will video the concerts and sell the videos to PBS and others at the end of the season.
PERFORMANCE LINEUP
Emcee / Hosts
Elvis and Cher (Impersonators)
Performers / Talent
Nick Barclay (
http://www.nickbarclay.com)
Electric Crush (
http://www.electriccrush.net)
Patrick Droney (
http://www.patrickdroney.com)
Kelly Mueller (
http://www.kellymueller.com )
Carmen Pimps (
http://www.carmenpimps.com/ )
Special Guest
PRODUCTION & TOUR COMPANIES
Don Cook Productions
Tour Conception, and Pre-production
MotionSonic Entertainment Group
Ad Agency, Print Media, Radio, T.V. and Internet Design
Crop Circle Records
Audio / Video Studios, CD Manufacturing, Record Company
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