These may seem like isolated events, but to the dedicated men and women who make up the Pollstar.com Disaster Relief Team, it’s business as usual. Just another day on the “job.”

For the little girl digging though the dirt in hopes of finding water, we airlifted the entire May schedule for Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers. The British farmer may have lost his herd, his farm, his livelihood, but he can breath easier now that he has the schedules for Loverboy and Leon Redbone. And somewhere north of the Panama Canal, the latest dates for the Backstreet Boys help dry the family’s tears as Grandma’s casket is lowered into the cold damp ground.

For over two hundred years the Pollstar.com Disaster Relief Teams have brought the latest concert dates to the downtrodden and the needy. But we need your help. Every time you click on a schedule, whether it be for Pat Savage Band, Guided By Voices or Tim Easton, part of the money earned enables us to send a fresh tour itinerary to where it’s needed most, no matter if it’s Macedonia, Pakistan, or even Manitoba.

So the next time you’re tempted to skip the latest concert routings for Blueground Undergrass and The Slackers and go directly to your favorite porn site, we ask that you remember these schedules are more than just a list of dates and cities. For many it’s that last line between survival and defeat, that last sandbag against the flood, that last swallow of water before the drought. We may not be able to feed the poor, the needy, the hungry of the world, but we can give them the latest dates for Uncle Sammy. All you need do is click.

Won’t you help?