Before Angelina Jordan's first ever, and historic, Las Vegas concert performance on Feb. 29, 2024, a few Angels* hoped to donate some tickets. Goals of the donations were to 1) Inspire / create new angels - as we feel there is no better way to do this than to experience Angelina performing LIVE. 2) Knowing that a sell-out was unlikely, to fill some seats. 3) Generate additional awareness about the concert.
We discovered a wonderful non-profit organization, Veterans Ticket Foundation (www.vettix.org), whose primary mission is to honor members of the military, veterans, first responders, and their families, by connecting them to donated tickets to events such as concerts. We decided to donate tickets via Vettix.
The Veterans Ticket Foundation informed us that they reach more than 78,000 veterans & active military in the Las Vegas area. They said that a lottery system would be used to distribute the tickets, which, important to us, meant that many of those veterans and active members in the area likely became aware of Angelina’s concert.
In addition to the goals above, we greatly appreciate the Foundation’s mission and so felt a final goal was met, that of honoring veterans and active military, for their service and sacrifices.
One wonderful aspect of Vettix is that they encourage ticket recipients to provide photos of themselves at the event, indicate when they served (or if still active), and especially to give feedback about the event they attended. The photos and information of those who did provide such feedback is included in the video.
And, as noted at the end of the video, we say:
THANK YOU - TO ALL THE HEROES - THOSE WHO HAVE SERVED, OR ARE CURRENTLY SERVING - IN THE MILITARY, AND FIRST RESPONDERS.
Finally, a shout-out and thank you to James Thiel, for his terrific editing of Angelina’s Las Vegas performance of Hero, and for approving its use in this tribute/thanks to veterans and those in active military service
*Angel donors were: Steve Ackerman, Ki Leung, David Pastorello, Douglas Switzer
16 сен 2024