We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked, and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty – Mother Teresa
A link on Facebook from VK Lynne popped up last night, about a new project she is involved in. Where five female musicians will release a cover of the classic ‘Temple Of The Dog – Hunger Strike,’ in honour of World Hunger Day.
Leah Martin-Brown (Evol Walks), VK Lynne (The Spider Accomplice), Alex Nicole Windsor (Shiragirl), Raine Palladino (Shiragirl), and B.B. Kates (The Drained) met through Gritty In Pink, a community to empower women in music.
“We had been wanting to do a collaboration for a while,” Lynne explains, “and here in LA, homelessness and hunger have ballooned in the pandemic. It seemed like a natural fit to use our platform to highlight those issues and, at the same time, raise funds to donate towards the cause.”
The single will be available through all major music services (iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, etc.) and all proceeds will be donated to L.A.’s Union Rescue Mission. (Union Rescue Mission (URM) is one of the largest missions of its kind in America – bringing help and hope to men, women, and children experiencing homelessness in Downtown Los
Angeles.)
I live in one of the worlds major cities London, and on my commute to work, I have noticed the increase in homelessness during the pandemic.
Leah Martin-Brown, currently in Europe working on a new album, sings the late Chris Cornell’s melody, while VK Lynne, co-founder of women’s metal collective Eve’s Apple, handles the parts of Eddie Vedder. Guitar duties are deftly undertaken by Alex Nicole Windsor, who is sponsored by Ernie Ball, while Warped Tour alum Raine
Palladino holds down the beat on the drum throne. B.B. Kates, sponsored by Fender and GHS Strings, rounds out the lineup on bass.
Its also a great rock number:
Fruitless Fact: Domestic violence is a leading cause of homelessness among women. According to the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty (NLCHP), more than 90 percent of homeless women are victims of severe physical or sexual abuse, and escaping that abuse is a leading cause of their homelessness.
