Rhythm & Roots Announces Effort To Assist Local Food Bank

BRISTOL, Tenn. – The Rhythm & Roots Reunion music festival has a new promotion designed to assist a local food bank.
Throughout June, the festival will donate $5 for every $40 weekend pass sold online to Second Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Tennessee, festival executive director Leah Ross said during a news conference this morning.
In addition, anyone who donates five cans of non-perishable food in June, at the time they purchase a weekend ticket, will receive a $5 discount, Ross said. The festival will also donate $5 from each weekend ticket sold, if the buyer doesn’t donate food.
Festival officials plan to attend a number of events during June to accept donations and sell tickets.
“This couldn’t come at a better time,” said Rhonda Chafin, executive director of Second Harvest. “Our need is greater now than it has ever been and summer is a time when children are out of school and can’t take advantage of free breakfast and lunch at school.”
For more information about the food bank’s work and the festival, read Saturday’s Bristol Herald Courier.