olmv.jpg Robin Strasser and other OLTL cast members will sign "One Life Many Voices," CDs on Wednesday, March 8th at 7 pm at Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle in NYC. Some from the cast will perform. If you don't know, the CD was produced by Strasser, who got her castmates to create the CD to raise funds to help disaster relief efforts in areas impacted by Hurricane Katrina.

100% of net proceeds will go to hurricane relief.

Date: Wednesday, March 8th
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle
1972 Broadway@66th St
New York City

To listen to a sampling of the CD click on the icon:



Edited to add list of participants as of 3/03 (subject to change):
List of confirmed performers:
Tika Sumpter
Matt Metzger
Kassie DePaiva
Kathy Brier

List of confirmed attendees (to sign autographs, etc):
Nathaniel Marston
Robin Strasser
Dan Gauthier
Erika Slezak

olmv.jpg 3/2/06--The One Life, Many Voices Hotline - 212 604-4000- has been updated with Kassie Depaiva. OLMV was produced by Strasser to raise money for Hurricane Katrina victims.

olmv.jpg A new section has been added to the site with pictures from the February, 2006 visit to New Orleans by ABC at the Fun in the Sun event. Most of the pictures are of homes and other places that were destroyed or are in state of disrepair. Take a look.Pics from Louisiana and Mississippi visit There is also a request to contact radio stations about the CD to get it play on the radio.

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RSRocks (Christy) went to see OLTL stars at Barnes and Noble on March 8. Read her recap Christy's recap

To see pictures go to the Wireimage site (not many of Robin) OLMV Barnes and Noble pics

Update on 3/13
olmv.jpg Check out the media page. There are pics from recent events.

And remember the cause too. Spread the word about the CD! (Click)

Update on 3/14

olmv.jpg To view television coverage of OLMV, including diva.jpg recent 3/8 appearance on Soap Talk, go to this topic in the multimedia forum:

Multimedia Forum--RS

Ladyday, a member of Robin's "TeamPromo" for the olmv.jpg project posted this on the abc.com OLTL board:

Nathaniel Marston (Michael), Bree Williamson (Tess/Jess), and Matt Metzger(Duke) are going to be promoting the One Life, Many Voices CD on various MTV Radio shows nationwide Thursday April 20th, 9-11 am.

Below is a list of the stations we have so far. THANKS to Jannette at MTV Radio!!!! And thanks to Nathaniel for making the initial contact and helping to coordinate this.

I am so excited about this.....national coverage, whoo hoo!

Keep checking the One Life, Many Voices website's media page: OLMV media page for more updates, links to the radio stations (many do online streaming), and for interview clips to be put up after the fact.

Please everyone, help us spread the word. Pass this on to all your email groups and post it on all the other boards you go to. Thanks!

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Here is a list of the stations on the tour so far:

WBHT
Jenn & AJ
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, PA

WSPK
The Woodman
Poughkeepsie, NY

WWMX
Jojo & Reagan
Baltimore, MD

XHTO
Juicy & Big Al
El Paso, TX

KQID
Ron & Riley
Alexandria, LA

Remember, even if you don't live in the area, many do online streaming

Robin Strasser Builds a House w/Habitat for Humanity this Friday


LADIES’ HOME JOURNAL TEAMS UP WITH THE HILTON FAMILY OF HOTELS AND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY TO HELP REBUILD SLIDELL, LOUISIANA

Magazine Brings Advertisers to New Orleans to Celebrate Jazzfest, Give Back to Gulf Coast;

Grammy-nominee Marcia Ball to Play Private Concert for Volunteers;

Star of ABC’s One Life to Live to Help With Build

April 27, 2006, NEW YORK—Ladies’ Home Journal today announced its relationship with both the Hilton Family of Hotels and Habitat for Humanity to build homes in the Hurricane Katrina-ravaged town of Slidell, Louisiana. The build, which will take place Friday, May 5 during the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, will bring together over 100 of the magazine’s advertising clients and staff, as well as Hilton Family employees and executives from the region.

One Life to Live star Robin Strasser (“Dorian Lord”) will participate in the build. Marcia Ball, the Grammy-nominated “Queen of Boogie Piano,” will entertain guests after the build at a private dinner hosted by Ladies’ Home Journal at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside. Ms. Ball will perform on the Hilton Harmony Piano – a priceless piece of music memorabilia signed by more than 75 artists and musicians including Bruce Springsteen and Stevie Wonder. The piano is currently on a year-long eight-city U.S. tour to collect more signatures and will be on display at the hotel during the month of May. For every signature collected, Hilton is donating $1,000 to the GRAMMY Foundation® in support of music education.

“Ladies’ Home Journal celebrates home and family, so it is a perfect fit for us to team up with the Hilton Family of Hotels and Habitat to provide much-needed housing,” said Publisher Julie Pinkwater. “We are all thrilled not only to contribute to the Gulf Coast economy by attending Jazzfest with our clients, but more importantly to help in the rebirth of Slidell.”


The partnership between Ladies’ Home Journal and Habitat for Humanity, which began in 2003, encourages readers to help people in their communities by volunteering or donating to Habitat. According to Editor in Chief Diane Salvatore, the magazine plans to revisit Slidell in-book as Habitat achieves its goal of building 100 homes there this year.

Nancy Wood, Executive Director, East St. Tammany Habitat for Humanity, said, “Ladies’ Home Journal is an amazing outlet to spread the message of Habitat. This partnership will encourage people to reach across social and economic divides to help our citizens most in need of simple, decent housing.”

“We are thrilled to work with Ladies’ Home Journal to build homes for Habitat for Humanity because it aligns perfectly with the Hilton Family core philosophy – ‘be hospitable™’ – which is filling the earth with the light and warmth of hospitality,” said Mary Beth Parks, vice president of marketing, Hilton Family of Hotels. “This relationship allows us to give back to a community that endured a tremendous loss due to the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina, and will help families rebuild their lives.”


About Ladies’ Home Journal

Founded in December 1883, Ladies' Home Journal magazine has been inspiring, informing and entertaining women for 120 years. Published monthly by Meredith Corporation (www.meredith.com), Ladies’ Home Journal has a circulation of 4.1 million and a readership of 14.8 million. The magazine’s interactive online companion, www.lhj.com, has 1.8 million unique visitors and 20 million page views each month.


About Habitat for Humanity International

Habitat for Humanity International, based in Americus, Ga., is an ecumenical Christian ministry that welcomes to its work all people dedicated to the cause of eliminating poverty housing. Since 1976, Habitat has built more than 200,000 houses in nearly 100 countries, providing simple, decent and affordable shelter for more than one million people. For more information, visit Habitat for Humanity link

About Hilton Family of Hotels Hilton Hotels Corporation (NYSE:HLT) is the leading global hospitality company, with nearly 2,700 hotels and 475,000 rooms in more than 80 countries, with 150,000 team members worldwide. More than 2,300 hotels are owned, managed or franchised in North America, with a portfolio of some of the best known and highly regarded hotel brands including Hilton®, Conrad®, Doubletree®, Embassy Suites Hotels®, Hampton Inn®, Hampton Inn & Suites®, Hilton Garden Inn®, Hilton Grand Vacations Club®, Homewood Suites by Hilton® and The Waldorf=Astoria Collection™. Outside of North America, the company operates 262 hotels branded Hilton, 131 hotels under the mid-market Scandic brand and five all-inclusive resorts under the Coral by Hilton brand. For more information about our company, please visit www.hiltonfamily.com.

This is so wonderful!

I went on two habitats both in Arkansas. It's just a wonderful experience. But of course Robin is helping out in the NO area. Way cool!


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She's not just helping out with the build - this is money raised from the One Life, Many Voices CD that is being donated.

ROCK ON, DIVA!!!
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Even Better :)

Like I said wonderful!

I believe Robin mentioned a figure around $43,000 as having been raised for use toward the Hurrican Katrina cause. I think that's awesome and it was slow going there for awhile with the sales. I do know that she is trying to encourage people to write talk shows like Ellen so as to nationally publicize the cause and reach an even larger audience. Anybody interested in further details should click HERE

Thanks for posting this Christy!

dorian77.jpg She is a class act. You go Robin!
VIVA LA DIVA!!

Update on 5/8
Click below and scroll for picture of Robin building Habitat home.....

Robin in Slidell, LA

Thanks for posting this Cheryl!

olmv.jpg FViewer is a poster on the ABC.com board who attended Girl's Night Out. The poster says Robin mentioned "she has had a problem trying to get the "One Life Many Voices" CD exposure on any talk show. She wants that venue because it reaches such a vast demographic."

FViewer started a thread on the GMA board that addresses this issue. Please take a moment and keep the thread active by posting there:

OLMV thread @ GMA board

*GMA Host Robin Roberts is from the Gulf Coast area.

Robin announced Tuesday on her hotline.jpg that she is reinvigorating her efforts toward olmv.jpg , particularly after New Orleans was hit again with another hurricane. Amid warnings that Hurricane Gustav, which crashed ashore on Monday, would be the "mother of all storms", two million people were evacuated from the state. In early analysis, the hurricane caused negligible flooding and nothing like the devastation by Katrina three years ago. Nonetheless, eight people died in the US as a result of Gustav, while Katrina claimed at least 1,800 lives.

"We've got to keep helping our friends right here in the United States of America," Robin told callers on her Hotline. She said that the OLMV Foundation has become a 501 C3 non-profit classification, which relates to tax exemption status. So far, $90,000 has been raised through a deal with Barnes & Noble, Robin's own financial backing, and with money from CD sales. The fulfillment house Robin previously dealt with has gone out of business. Consequently, Robin says that she will take personal responsibility for shipping and handling the orders.

The CDs are on sale for $10.00 each. To get the CD and enclosed portraits by Michael Easton (John McBain, OLTL), make your check payable to The One Life Many Voices Foundation and send it with an enclosed self-addressed envelop with enough postage on it for the CD (Robin thinks it's around $1.50, but she is researching it). Your order request, with the sase, should go to:





Shortly after Katrina, Robin thought of something creative. She spoke to her castmates about using their collective talents on a CD that she would later produce called, "One Life Many Voices." A not-for-profit foundation was established to allow for an independent fundraising effort with 100% of net proceeds going directly to aid 2005 Hurricane Disaster Relief. Click here here: olmv.jpg to listen to a sampling of the songs but remember to send your orders to Robin at the OLTL studio.

UPDATE:
As she indicated earlier this week on her hotline.jpg , ROBIN has taken down her olmv.jpg website.

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Hope you are all enjoying a festive season. For any of you who purchased the OLMV CD, or made a contribution to the foundation, here's a glimpse of how your money is helping young music students in New Orleans.