Laguna Beach, CA: Orange County’s premier destination for upscale cuisine with daily live jazz music, The Drake in Laguna Beach (founded by Alec Glasser), will once again host The Drake Gives fundraiser to generate support and awareness for music education in underserved public schools. The evening will kick-off with the electrifying sounds of Matt Von Roderick, a world-class trumpeter, singer, and recording artist whose genre-defying style blends jazz, pop, and soul into a mesmerizing performance. Chef
Laguna Beach, CA: Philanthropist Alec Glasser has been a driving force behind music education initiatives in Orange County. Recently donating $1.5 million dollars from The Drake Gives, the generous contribution will help fund a novel initiative at the University of California (UCI), Irvine’s School of Social Ecology. UCI’s Power of Music initiative is one distinct way in which The Drake Gives is helping leverage music for social good and wellbeing. The Drake Gives partnered with Save The Music