Bullmoose Sells over 1000 Greetings From Area Code 207 Volume 4 raising over $10,000
Posted Monday January 05, 2004
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 5, 2004

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Gillian Britt 207-767-6488
gBritt P.R. & Marketing

Chris Brown 207-874-2123 x101
Bull Moose Music

BULL MOOSE MUSIC SELLS OVER 1,000 COPIES OF GREETINGS FROM AREA CODE 207 RAISING OVER $10,000

PORTLAND, ME – Bull Moose Music sold an unprecedented number of the locally produced CD Greetings from Area Code 207 volume 4 (GFAC 207) during this year’s holiday season, raising in excess of $10,000 to date. The CD is the result of collaboration between local musicians, Portland’s Cornmeal Records and WCLZ 98.9. All proceeds are donated to support the continuing rehabilitation of the St. Lawrence Arts and Community Center on Munjoy Hill in Portland.

For the past four years Charlie Gaylord, head of Cornmeal Records and the host of Area Code 207 on WCLZ, has been working to compile songs by local artists in Maine for the Greetings from Area Code 207 series. “The only cost to us is the duplication of the CDs,” said Gaylord. “All of the artists donate their cuts, Gateway Mastering in Portland donates the mastering of the CD and US Optical in Sanford does the duplication for us basically at cost, so 100% of funds raised after that go to the St. Lawrence.”

“Part of the St. Lawrence Arts and Community Center’s goal is to provide an outlet for local musicians, they are big fans of the local music scene,” explained Gaylord. “That’s what makes them such a great fit for GFAC 207.”

Bull Moose Music tracked the sales of GFAC 207 and noted that it was the top seller in their Portland Middle St. store for the three weeks prior to Christmas, surpassing local sales of the Beatles Let it Be … Naked and Britney Spears’ latest release, In the Zone. In Bull Moose stores statewide GFAC 207 ranked second in all sales for the weeks ending December 14 and December 21.

Chris Brown from Bull Moose Music, said, “Our customers have always been huge supporters of local music, and they always fire up for arts-based charities, but they are showing extra enthusiasm for Vol. 4. The intensity of the sales of this CD rivals the biggest local records ever: Rustic Overtones Rooms by the Hour, Homegrown Vol. 4, and Jeremiah Freed's self-released CD. We're so lucky to be a part of this great arts scene. I'm glad we could help in our tiny way."

Bull Moose Music was started in 1989 by Brett Wickard when he was a junior at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. It is now the largest music retailer in Maine and Seacoast New Hampshire with stores in Bangor, Brunswick, Lewiston, North Windham, Portland, Sanford, Scarborough and Waterville, Maine and Portsmouth and Salem, New Hampshire.