Saturday, July 31st, 2010

By Jessica Harding

AMSTERDAM – The Boston-based band Thirteen Yards to Victory is expected to host a toy drive this weekend at the Riverfront Center.
Toy Jam II will kick off in Amsterdam Saturday as the band’s way of thanking the community for allowing them to test their 2010 tour on Amsterdam High School students.
Thirteen Yards to [...]

WHO/WHAT: International recording artists Thirteen Yard To Victory (13 YTV) return to Amsterdam, N.Y., for Toy Jam II, a unique toy drive aimed at helping families unemployed due to the fragile economy.
Admission to the event is an unwrapped, new toy with a minimum $5 value, which will be distributed by the Sanford Stud Farm to [...]

Thirteen Yards To Victory is featured in this WCVB Channel 5 news clip from September 11, 2009 as they help box up care packages for Massachusetts soldiers overseas. Reporter Amalia Barreda mentions the I’m an American Dreamer project and how 13 YTV plans to “pay it forward”.

Saugus – Local, national and international VIP’s turned out for the jam-packed Thirteen Yards to Victory American Dreamers EP and Video release party at the Hard Rock Café in Boston Sunday night.
The VIPs included: Diamond, multi-platinum, multi-Grammy award winner Ken Lewis (Usher, Fall Out Boy, Kanye West, Mariah Carey…); Jared Hancock, CEO of the Sure [...]

Thirteen Yards To Victory has been featured on the White House website Serve.gov in their “Stories of Service” section.
A clip from the site:
Boston-based rockers Thirteen Yards to Victory couldn’t help but notice the headlines in the local newspapers and the announcements on social media sites that many arts and music education programs in their area [...]

Multi-Grammy-winning producer Ken Lewis, Sure Fire Music Group CEO Jared Hancock, DJ Joe Bermudez, Chuck Mignanelli of Comedy Central’s cancelled “Crank Yankers,” U.S. Rep. John Tierney, state Rep. Mark Falzone, Club Cafe cheese Frank Ribaudo and his partner, celeb impersonator Joe Posa, all at the Thirteen [...]

“Boston-based rockers, Thirteen Yards To Victory (13 YTV), ranging in age from 18-22
years old, announced the many diverse partners supporting their massive community service project and campaign designed to raise revenue for economically crippled arts and music programs in public and private schools nationwide via their American Dreamers EP and I’m an American Dreamer campaign.
Inspired [...]

BOSTON—September 1, 2009—As students and teachers return to their classrooms over the next couple of weeks, many will be greeted by sizeable staff layoffs, inflated class sizes and extracurricular programs cut as a result of the fragile economy. Recognizing this, Boston-based rockers, Thirteen Yards to Victory (13 YTV) are announcing a massive community service, revenue-generating [...]

By Chris Stevens / The Daily Item
SAUGUS – A Saugus-based rock band has decided to use what it does best – music – to generate some much needed revenue for schools across the country.
Each a product of the public school system, the five members of Thirteen Yards to Victory (13 YTV) are aware that students [...]