Rock-A-Belly Festival Merges Great Food, Great Beer, and Great Music for a Great Cause
Fundraiser aims to expand Food For Thought's fight against childhood hunger to additional Denver schools
DENVER, Oct. 30, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Food For Thought Denver, a local charity providing weekend meals to hungry schoolchildren, today unveiled an all-star lineup of restaurants, breweries and bands scheduled to appear at its annual Rock-A-Belly Festival fundraiser, presented by VISA Nov. 7 at the Tivoli Turnhalle.
Restaurants
Ace Eat Serve, Adelita's, Baur's, Gaetano's, Highland Tap & Burger, Jax, Lena, Work and Class, Little Man Ice Cream, Snooze, Stueben's, Grateful Bread, Limelight Supper Club & Lounge, Vesta Dipping Grill, Reunion Gastropub & Wine Bar, La Patisserie Bakery, Viand.
Breweries/Distilleries
Aspen Brewing Co, Backcountry Brewery, Blank & Booth Distilling Co., Centennial Beer Co, Grimm Brothers Brewhouse, Tivoli Brewing Co, High Hops Brewery, Wynkoop Brewing.
Performers
Live music by Los Straightjackets and their guests, the Hillbilly Hellcats.
KTCL Radio personality Alf Kremer, DJ.
9News anchor Kyle Clark, MC.
Sponsors
VISA, SquareTwo Financial, WhiteWave Foods, Hogan Lovells, IMA, Riveron, Roth Living, The Morrison & Foerster Foundation, OfficeScapes, Oracle, ViaWest, and Smashburger.
"Whether your interest is food, music, or craft brews, the Rock-A-Belly Festival has something for everyone," said Jeane Larkins, co-Chair of the Rock-A-Belly Festival. "What better way to enjoy an evening of culinary arts and entertainment than knowing all proceeds will support a great cause like Food For Thought."
Food For Thought Denver provides provisions for meals to elementary school children and families at four of Denver's low-income schools in order to bridge the hunger gap between meals the kids receive during the week as part of school subsidy program. Proceeds from the Rock-A-Belly Festival will add two additional schools to the four the program currently supports.
"More than 26,000 school children in the Denver Public School System live in food-insecure households," said Bob Bell, co-founder of Food For Thought Denver. "Rock-A-Belly is a major fundraiser for our charity designed to combat this problem and enables us to raise all the funds needed to support our local efforts, now in its fourth year."
About Rock-A-Belly Festival
Nov. 7, 2015
5:00 – 9:00
Tivoli Turnhalle
Rock-A-Belly Festival, presented by VISA, is a local hunger awareness event and fundraiser for Food For Thought Denver featuring food tastings, craft beer, and live music. The event features food tastings from Denver's finest restaurants and craft breweries, with live music from Los Straitjackets and the Hillbilly Hellcats. 9News anchor Kyle Clark is the event's MC. For information and tickets, visit http://www.rockabellydenver.com/.
About Food For Thought
Each Friday, Food For Thought provides students of participating schools with "PowerSacks" filled with enough food to help feed a family of four for the weekend. Over 90% of the students enrolled qualify for free and reduced breakfast and lunch programs, but often come to school hungry on Monday mornings due to a lack of adequate nutritious food over the weekend. For more information about Food For Thought Denver, visit www.foodforthoughtdenver.org.
Contact:
Antony Bruno
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303-771-1342
SOURCE Food For Thought Denver
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