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YA MOMZ HOUSE, LLC AND GET GO TO THROW
EMMY AWARD CELEBRATION
BENEFITING THE GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK
Ya Momz House, LLC and Get Go/Giant Eagle, is throwing a red carpet style Emmy Award Celebration Benefit hosted by Radio/TV Personality Anji Corley at Olive or Twist, located in the heart of downtown Pittsburgh's cultural district; 140 6 th Street, from 6-9 pm on Thursday, October 16, 2008.
Special guest appearances are expected from some of Pittsburgh 's remaining Tuskegee Airmen who will be honored at the event. In addition, the artists who played a key role in the soundtrack for this documentary such as Sean Jones, Trini Massie, Howie Alexander, Richard “Hutch” Hutchins, Bianca Atterberry, Colter Harper, Jeremy McDonald and Thomas Wendt will be honored as well.
The happy hour event is a way for the city's most prominent and successful individuals to give back to the community. To help aide an important issue in Pittsburgh that can be easily overlooked, entry into the event is a requested canned food donation that will then be given to the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank.
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“We are proud to support this community event. It is for a very worthy cause and delivers proper recognition to the musicianship that is so rich in Pittsburgh. This occasion is a great testament to the talent that gives back unconditionally to this region not only through music but through social awareness”
says Derek Gaskins, Director of Marketing for Giant Eagle.
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The Emmy Award, which was received for Music Composition and Arrangement by Emmai Alaquiva, is for the production of the soundtrack for WQED Multimedia's eminent documentary; Fly Boys: Western Pennsylvania's Tuskegee Airmen.
This Emmy Award Celebration Benefit is brought to you in part by Get Go, Coors Light, Charismatic Marketing, Abay, Brotha Ash Productions, Jenesis Magazine,
The Soul Pitt, and The Pittsburgh Black Media Federation.
For More Information Contact:
Beth Snyder bsnyder@yamomzhouse.com
 WINNER OF THE 2008
MID-ATLANTIC EMMY AWARD
(Pittsburgh, September 22, 2008) Emmai Alaquiva of Ya Momz House, LLC, a full-service recording and production company located in Pittsburgh’s East Side, received a Mid-Atlantic Emmy Award for music composition and arrangement for the production of the soundtrack for WQED Multimedia’s eminent documentary; Fly Boys: Western Pennsylvania’s Tuskegee Airmen.
The program, hosted and produced by WQED’s Chris Moore and co-produced by Olga George, covers the experience of the Tuskegee Airmen, a military initiative to see if African-American men were capable of flying complicated engines of war. It was a controversial experiment because at the time African-Americans were excluded from the Air Corps due to the belief that they lacked the intelligence and courage to fly into battle. Click here for more »
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