Summer Concerts to Benefit NeighborImpact Food Bank

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Pacific Northwest musician, Tony Smiley, aka The Loop Ninja, returns to Bend for two free concerts and is helping the local community by hosting a food and fund drive during the shows tobenefit NeighborImpact’s Food Bank. First concert at Les Schwab Amphitheater in Bend on Sunday July 28 at 2:30pm.

Gates open at noon and nonperishable food items and monetary donations will be accepted before and during the show. The second concert will be held on Sunday August 18 from 5-7pm at Sunriver’s SHARC Amphitheater. Currently, the NeighborImpact Food Bank is providing emergency food assistance to approximately 20,000 people in Central Oregon. The Food Bank receives over half its donated food from the local community.

“Food and Fund drives during the summer months are every bit as important as they are around the Holidays,” says NeighborImpact Food Resource Specialist, Sandy Klein.

The songs of Tony Smiley are a tantalizing ride through electro acoustic music that will cause your musical senses to rise. During the experience you can expect original soul bearing songs, improv crowd pleasers and creative cover mixes. As he loops his way through a set he builds the audience’s anticipation by using, keyboards, drum machines, guitars, tambourine, vocals and beat box sounds through Boss Loop pedals. His songs are original, groove-laden works of art. The loop ninja will “completely make you a believer.”

(Andy Summers, guitar player for the Police). “I believe if we all simply take the time to give back to the community both local and abroad, as well as the environment, we can all help to heal and move us all forward into a better world,” says Tony Smiley. “One small act of kindness, like giving a can of food or 1 dollar can and will make a huge difference in another person’s world. We have made the commitment of working with local (food bank) chapters, like NeighborImpact, to join us at as many shows as possible so we can make the art of giving habitual in our lives. Let’s be the change we want to see in the world!”

To learn more about Tony Smiley, visit www.tonysmiley.net. To learn more about NeighborImpact’s FoodBank visit www.neighborimpact.org or e mail Sandy Klein at sandyk@neighborimpact.org

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