The UK's largest music therapy charity, Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy, is setting up a division in LA, having had operations in New York for the best part of fifteen years.
The LA branch of the charity was officially launched with a cocktail reception at the city's House Of Blues venue. Among the artists in attendance to support the event were John Lydon, Keith Emerson, Tears for Fears' Curt Smith and Kathleen 'Bird' York.
An executive committee of industry executives who will coordinate the charity's LA activities has been confirmed, and includes former Virgin Records boss Ray Cooper (currently of Zama Management), Chrysalis Music Group's Kenny MacPherson, Headplay's Glen Ward and Provident Financial Management's Bill Vuylsteke and Larry Einbund.
The charity's first major LA fundraising event is expected to take place in the Autumn.