A clip of the SilenceIsViolence Music Clinics' finale performance with Shamarr Allen and his students. We are incredibly proud of these young musicians! (Video credit: Allison Padilla-Goodman)

Macy Gray mixed it up at The Music Lounge and stopped in to sign guitars for Music Rising. (Photo credit: Cie Hoover)

Blues musician Alabama Slim warms up with a Music Rising guitar - a gift from a group of generous fans! (Photo courtesy Irene Kato)

Music Rising co-founders Bob Ezrin, The Edge, and Henry Juszkiewicz visit New Orleans post-Hurricane Katrina (Photo by Jamie Brown, May 2006)

Edge with the Limited Edition Music Rising Epiphone Les Paul. The guitar is available in the Store section with all proceeds benefiting MR. ONLY 25 GUITARS REMAIN!

Musician Mike Posner (left) [J Records] (Photo by Alex Koehne)

Swag TV host interviews The Iron Birds (by Alex Koehne)

Melinda McGraw of "Skateland" (Photo by Alex Koehne)

May 2008 - Jazzfest co-founder and executive producer Quint Davis presents Walter "Wolfman Washington" with a special ES 137 in Blues Burst and custom inscription at the Maple Leaf Bar in New Orleans.

The Edge accepts his 2006 GRAMMY Award wearing the official Music Rising t-shirt, which is for sale to benefit the charity at hardrock.com.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, employees of Gibson Guitar in Sept 2005 loaded up the Gibson tour bus with supplies, musical instruments and other necessities and drove them down to New Orleans, where we delivered them to many needy people.

In 2005, Edge visited the New Orleans Guitar Center post-Katrina and presented instruments to musicians in need.

Edge signs a very limited number of Music Rising Epiphone guitars that sold for $10,000 each, with all proceeds going to Music Rising.

(Photo credit: Shahar Azran)

Edge, Gibson Chairman and CEO Henry Juszkiewicz and producer Bob Ezrin celebrate the reopening of the legendary Preservation Jazz Hall in New Orleans in April 2006.

The Edge, Billy Joe Armstrong and Bono performing at the Superdome.

(Photo credit: Shahar Azran)

Bob Ezrin, co-founder of Music Rising accepts the 2005 Billboard Humanitarian Award on behalf of Music Rising from then Billboard Editor Tamara Coniff in New York, 2006.