The first official taper's section at a Phish show was at Bender Arena on 12/28/93. Although the Bender and Cumberland County Civic Center shows on the run were GA, New Haven and Worcester (NYE) were not, and so tapers had to request tickets through Phish Tickets By Mail for tickets to the section's reserved seats at those shows, as announced in the fall '93 Doniac Schvice.
In celebration of Phish’s four-show New Year's Eve run at Madison Square Garden (Dec 28, 29, 30, & 31), the all-volunteer and fan-run Mockingbird Foundation has announced that it is sending an unsolicited $1,000 Tour Grant to four music education programs nearby:
- P721X Stephen D. McSweeney OTC of Bronx, NY, for microphones (with cables and stands), an electric guitar, and an amp.
- NYCDOE of Far Rockaway, Queens, NY, for bongos, shakers, flutes, props, iPads, costumes, and other instruments
- P10X of Bronx, NY, for adapted instruments for students with fine and gross motor difficulties.
- Robert F Wagner Middle School 167 of New York, NY, for a Fender electric bass, strings, bow, and rosin.
This is the 26th round of unsolicited Tour Grants, an effort that now totals over $268,000, which is 11% of all disbursements made by the foundation. These grants are part of a long-standing effort to help support music education in the local communities that Phish touches. They follow Mockingbird's largest competitive grant round ever, and a total of 66 grants this past summer alone! Mockingbird has now made 661 grants in all 50 states, totaling more than $2.3M.
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