RADIO INDEPENDENCE DAY
GRAND OPENING of TEXAMERICANA

TEXAMERICANA :: Support Public Radio

  • Fourth of July, 2006


    Recording Artists Posse Up to Protect the Voice of Freedom and Support Public Radio
  • Texamericana, a newly formed Texas non-profit corporation, is organized to create funding for non-profit community sponsored radio stations. Fostering musical and cultural diversity, Texamericana brings together people who make music with people who buy music to create funding for non-profit radio stations across the USA. http://texamericana.org.
  • Recording Artists consign CDs and designate between $1 to $5 from the sale of each CD as a donation to the non-profit radio station of the purchasers choice. Purchasers simply designate their favorite non-profit station to receive the donation when placing their order. For instance, when the listeners of KUT (or any public radio station) buy 100 CDs from Texamericana's internet record store and designate KUT in the checkout process, KUT will receive a donation between $100.00 and $500.00.
  • This grassroots effort to create a new source of funding for non-profit community radio stations began in 2005 when Barbara Kooyman recorded UNDERCOVER ~ the songs of Timbuk3 on the 4th of July. $5.00 from the sale of each CD was offered as a donation to the non-profit radio station of the purchaser's choice when ordering from her record label Sparrows Wheel.
  • In 2006, TEXAMERICANA adapted the Sparrows Wheel charitable disbursement model for their non-profit record store. This enables any Recording Artist to help create funding for non-profit radio stations through the simple act of consigning CDs and designating a portion of the sale as a donation therefrom.
  • The Texamericana Social Hour began in May in Austin ,Texas, in order to introduce the Goals and Activities of Texamericana to Recording Artists and music business associates.
  • The Recording Artist and Record Label consignment modules of Texamericana's internet store have recently opened to register Artists and receive consignments.
  • The Grand Opening of Texamericana's internet store is scheduled for July 4th, 2006.
  • Ask not what Radio can do for you, ask what YOU can do for Radio.