We just launched a charity project called Indie Music for Haiti, which aims to help Haiti through the power of indie music. All donations will be going to Voice of Haiti, which was founded by filmmaker/social activist James M. Felter, and Haitian-American businessman/educator Eddy Remy.

Voice of Haiti funds and promotes environmentally friendly, self-sustaining community development projects in Haiti. They are also a conduit for other organizations, individuals, experts and resources that help meet the needs of community initiatives.

The concept for Indie Music For Haiti works like this:

• You can view videos or audio files submitted to Indie Music for Haiti. If you like a particular band, make a donation on their behalf.
• Bands and Musicians can upload music that they wish to contribute to the project, along with specifying a charity that they wish the proceeds from their online performance to go to. If you are an artists this is a great way to get publicity for your band, while promoting a great cause.

Our friends over at Asparagus Media and ServInt threw a benefit concert in Washington DC to kick the event off last month, and we worked to take everything they filmed that night and build it into a website. The charity concert raised $10,000 for Haiti relief and we’re hoping that the website will help to further those donations.

As an interesting side note, the website is powered by our open source project, MediaCore Video CMS. The homepage automatically updates with the latest videos submitted.

Indie Music for Haiti