If you've read any newspapers in the Charleston, WV area recently, you've probably seen some articles about a Rock Band buying Cows.

Well, that would be us.

You see, we've always wanted to be work together with charities to help people out. And the chance to play music while doing so is a great opportunity. But we've also had to deal with the continual struggle that all charitably-minded people deal with: will this really, actually help someone?

We've all given money to people in gas stations asking for a couple of dollars for a bus ticket. And we've all watched them take that money and turn around and buy alcohol.

Throwing money at people doesn't always seem to help. In fact, sometimes it seems to enable people. On the other hand, we all too often use that as an excuse for simply doing nothing at all.

So is there a way we can find to help people that doesn't involve just throwing money at organizations?

Recently, we've been looking for an answer to that question; and we've come up with several charities whose work is oriented towards giving people things that really help them: technology, education, and resources.

The Heifer Project is the one we've chosen to work with for this concert, and we're excited about their concept: instead of giving money or food to poverty-stricken villages and families, they give farm animals and livestock. And these animals can then become a self-renewing resource, supplying food, labor, and clothing to a community.

So on March 9th, when we go onstage at the Charleston Civic Center, we hope to have sold enough tickets to sponsor a cow for The Heifer Project. The organization, which has worked with locations as diverse as Africa and rural West Virginia, will take that cow to somewhere it is needed and valued.

That's what we're doing, and that's why we're buying a cow. We just wanted you to know, and hopefully you'll be as excited about it as we are.

To buy tickets, call 1-888-88-REDDING, or order online at www.ReddingBrothers.com/tickets, or any Ticketmaster location.

-micah