{"id":489047,"date":"2019-08-14T08:55:06","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T14:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=871498"},"modified":"2019-08-14T08:55:06","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T14:55:06","slug":"woodsock-charity-concert-to-benefit-homeless-feature-american-idol-contestant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/woodsock-charity-concert-to-benefit-homeless-feature-american-idol-contestant\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Woodsock\u2019 Charity Concert to Benefit Homeless, Feature \u2018American Idol\u2019 Contestant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dennis-lorenzo-woodsock.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">While Woodstock 50 never made it off the ground, the organization <a href=\"http:\/\/knockknockgiveasock.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Knock Knock Give a Sock<\/a> \u2014 which provides socks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/homeless\/\" id=\"auto-tag_homeless\" data-tag=\"homeless\">homeless<\/a> people \u2014 will host a mini-music fest and fundraiser aptly called \u201cWoodsock\u201d on September 15th at Zanger Hall in New York City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The event will feature performances from musicians who are living in homes or homeless shelters, or have previously experienced homelessness. Among them is Dennis Lorenzo, a Philadelphia musician who was homeless for several years but eventually got his music career off the ground and made it to the Top 10 of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/american-idol\/\" id=\"auto-tag_american-idol\" data-tag=\"american-idol\">American Idol<\/a><\/em> during Season 18.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VD9hpbnEG40?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Other performers include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImw5lROfYg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Harry Stewart<\/a>, who has been living in a homeless shelter as he\u2019s pursued music since his release from prison; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mhMOrrJnH8s\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Next Stop<\/a>, a group of subway artists and buskers; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=s3bASW4sMWw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Adri and Oli<\/a>, a duo featuring one artist who overcame cancer and another who previously experienced homelessness. The eclectic Woodsock lineup also features Mexican theatre artist Bianca Marroquin, Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Kate Yeager and the Long Island-based outfit East Love.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Knock Knock Give a Sock is hosting Woodsock in partnership with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.overtherainbowentertainment.com\/lovemusicshelter-about\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Love, Music, Shelter<\/em><\/a>, a feature film about homelessness and music, whose creative team also helped find artists for the event. Tickets for Woodsock are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/woodsock-music-festival-tickets-68030405775\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">on sale<\/a> now.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/woodsock-charity-concert-american-idol-dennis-lorenzo-871498\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Woodstock 50 never made it off the ground, the organization Knock Knock Give a Sock \u2014 which provides socks to homeless people \u2014 will host a mini-music fest and fundraiser aptly called \u201cWoodsock\u201d on September 15th at Zanger Hall in New York City. The event will feature performances from musicians who are living in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-489047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 22:11:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}