White Light Foundation

We are thrilled to announce for Twiddle’s two-night run at Stony Creek Brewery on 8/29-30 we will be supporting Smile Anyway. Smile Anyway is combating the opioid crisis on the Shoreline through education and direct service. In addition to supporting Smile Anyway through merchandise sales and the generosity of Twiddle, GoodWorks Entertainment and Stony Creek Brewery, we are grateful to each of you who come out to the shows as $1 of every ticket ticket will be donated to help fight addiction in Brandford and the surrounding area. Please go to goodworkslive.com to purchase tickets and come visit us when you get there! Love Relentlessly.

In 7 days it will be Tumble Down 2019. We look forward to seeing you there and hope you will help us fight opioid addiction by supporting our fundraising efforts. With Twiddle and our incredible sponsors and Frends, we are thrilled to be supporting 3 amazing local organizations who are all on the front lines of the crisis: Turning Point Center of Chittenden County , Howard Center and the NICU at UVM Children’s Hospital are all working tirelessly to help those in need overcome their addictions and provide the necessary resources to support them throughout recovery.

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We are excited to get our Tumble Down 2019 fundraising started with a limited online drop of our Jumbo Purple Ribbon Frankie sets (Glitter and Regular for $45) and singles (Regular only for $20). Glitter is LE 75 and Regular is LE 250. The drop will take place on the White Light Foundation Facebook page. Purchasing links will be posted at 9:00 PM EST on Monday, July 22. Please, one per customer. We will have additional quantities available at Tumble Down. Thank you Twiddle for helping us us the big guy to the fight. 100% of the net proceeds from the sale will support local Burlington organizations on the front line of the opioid crisis. Love Relentlessly.

We have had a steady flow of frends registering for the Wampahoofus Disc Golf Charity event. We have to take a minute to thank Fiddlehead Brewing Company, Innova Disc and the Outdoor Gear Exchange for being our lead sponsors. We also have support from Pinsanity Designs, and our new sponsors Suspended In The Trees and Disc Golf Vermont. Register soon and come out for this awesome part of Tumble Down weekend while supporting the White Light Foundation. All levels welcome! https://www.facebook.com/events/2309037862525319

Recently the Robert Banks Trio (or all 4 members of Twiddle) visited Orlando’s Bar for an intimate performance that raised $2,700 on behalf of White Light Founation to help local organizations combat the opioid crisis. It is an honor to support the Howard Center and Turning Point of Chittenden with this donation. Special thanks to CashorTrade for selling tickets to the event and to Chris Prinos for helping us break through our $2,500 goal through sales of his event stickers.

Help fund the scholarships at Castleton University by donating to White Light Foundation! Thank you!

As psyched as we are for the upcoming Paramount Theatre shows, it is the impact these shows will make that really has us excited. With Twiddle, we are proud to support Castleton University students by creating two annual scholarships and contributing to a very special existing scholarship.

It is our honor to support The Sam Forrest Scholarship. A dear Frend of the band and inspiration for Ryan’s, Purple Forrest, Sam was taken from the community too early. Her family created the The Sam Forrest scholarship in her name. The scholarship is for students who have reached sophomore status, have financial need and carry a minimum of a 2.5 GPA. We plan to contribute at least $5,000 to extend its funding and Sam’s legacy.

Second, it is our distinct pleasure to create the Bronze Fingers Scholarship. The Bronze Fingers Scholarship will be awarded to students who have reached sophomore status, are music majors, have financial need and are in academic good standing. We plan to contribute at least $7,500 to establish the scholarship and fund it for the next 5 years.

Finally, in honor of Twiddle’s original mascot and Ryan’s Castleton pet, as well as all those in the Twiddle community who not only leave no trace but make the world a better place, the Luvaduck Scholarship will be awarded to students who have reached sophomore status, are in academic good standing and have contributed to their Castleton community in meaningful ways through volunteerism or social action. We plan to contribute at least $7,500 to establish the scholarship and fund it for the next 5 years.

We are grateful to our sponsors, Martin Guitar, Killington Resort and Fiddlehead Brewing Company along with GoodWorks Entertainment, and to everyone who has helped support the White Light Foundation. For those of you unable to attend the show who would like to support the scholarship you can donate to WLF directly through whitelightfoundation.org or purchase a Graduation Frankie Pin from twiddlemusic.com when they drop online after the Rutland shows.

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We are thrilled to announce a very special two-night run of Twiddle at The Paramount Theatre with our good frends GoodWorks Entertainment. These two shows, March 28-29, will not only take us back to where it all started for Twiddle, but establish the White Light Scholarship at Castleton University.

Tickets go on sale Friday January 4 at 12:00 PM EST at http://bit.ly/WLFParamount. A limited number of VIP and discounted 2-night GA tickets will be available.

⚡️VIP Bundles include ⚡️
Ticket to both nights with preferred loge section seating. Event poster. Special Friday pre-show featuring a Q&A with the band and acoustic performance

We are incredibly grateful for the support we’ve received for our first cause based White Light Frankie – a purple ribbon to support opioid crisis organizations. On behalf of Twiddle, we are thrilled to announce the following charities devoted to the opioid crisis will be receiving $500 each. 

Project Safe Point (Collin Rich), Turning Point of Franklin County (Rachel Grenier, Karen Greiner), AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin – ARCW (Ryan Potter), Healing Springs Recovery Community & Outreach Center (Emmalee Kate), Elizabeth House (Aubrie Graves), Save the Michaels of the World (Kat Horton, David Burdzy), NKY Hates Heroin (Lucas Miranda), Warp Corps (Rob Mutert), Turning Point Center of Chittenden County (Wendy Higgins), New Choices Recovery Center (Rachel Ferrer), Smile Anyway (Bernadette Marie), First Step Home (Carrie Ward Shore). The Herren Project (Khey Carlie), Wellspring Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services (@deidre ann), Rebel Recovery FL (John Kane), Team Sharing, Inc (@mary peckham), Cody’s Fresh Start Charity Works (Katie Bovard and Frends), Turning Point Center of Bennington County (Kim Clark). Glenbeigh (Nick Haskin), Howard Center, JFT Recovery & Veterans Support Services (Brandon Lillie), TriCircle Inc. (@christin gagnon)

Twiddle’s Frendsgiving week is here and we thrilled to offer 25 sets of the incredible John Shook, Coda Davidson and Victor Guarneri collaboration: White Light Farms Peas & Carrots Frendsgiving weekend event pins. LE’s are as follows – White 250 (for sale at The Capitol Theatre this weekend to help provide for those in need through Caritas of Port Chester), Orange 125 (with the balance going to the first 100 Frends who bring $10 in non-perishable food items to the Cap) and Green 175 (with the balance earmarked for the VIP event). The price of the set is $45. Thank you for your support. Love (Frendsgiving) Relentlessly.