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Milkshake will perform for Rocky Mountain Down Syndrome Educational Fund at the Denver Botanical Gardens for “The Growing Seeds of Change – Family Fun Day.”

The Family Fun Day will provide a meaningful and fun way to help change attitudes and educate people about diversity and differences, especially when it comes to Down syndrome. The organization plans to bring a lot of new families to one of Denver’s greatest cultural facilities and raise awareness for the Rocky Mountain Down Syndrome Educational Fund, a wonderfully worthy cause.

The Rocky Mountain Down Syndrome Educational Fund is a donor advised fund at The Denver Foundation. The Fund’s mission is to significantly improve the lives of people with Down syndrome through targeted education of caregivers, professionals, philanthropists, government and community leaders and the general public. The Fund’s vision is to change the paradigm of how people with Down syndrome are perceived by society so that they are valued and integral in their schools, jobs and communities.

Furthermore, Milkshake is probably the world’s most serious rock band for children. Not “serious” as in sad, but serious as in seriously musical. Made up of veterans of several Baltimore alt-pop, hard rock and progressive bands, Milkshake writes and performs music that is as musically sophisticated as it is lyrically lighthearted and child-centered. Though never condescending, they speak a kind of universally appealing language; a language familiar to young and old, child and parent, music fans of all ages.

Milkshake began in 2000, when singer Lisa Mathews and guitarist Mikel Gehl started to write songs inspired by their children. The band has released three award-winning CDs, and their music videos have appeared on Noggin, PBS KIDS and Discovery Kids’ Emmy-winning ToddWorld.

You’ll hear a bit of everything in Milkshake’s award-winning music, and yet the sound is utterly original, as rocking, playful and as strangely free of irony as the music they wrote and played for grownups. As Mathews says “we try to write music that reflects the state of being a child. We write music that kids can call their own.”

Milkshake’s first DVD release, Screen Play! is a joyous mix of MTV-like videos, animation, and in-concert videos and cool bonus features, including interviews with the band and a pair of 60-second videos featured on PBS KIDS.

For more information on Milkshake, please call Brooks International at 303-825-8700.