Grateful Dad & Friends
Welcome to Grateful Dad & Friends! GD&F is a series of conversations with host and lifelong music lover, Andy Staib, and his closest friends touching on the common threads that bond them together - namely their shared love of music, family, friends, and life. The show was born from the notion that music helps keep us all connected throughout our collective long strange trip. We all have a story to tell. Here are a few of those stories. Join us and see where the energy takes us!
Grateful Dad & Friends
Rocking Against Hunger, The Extraordinary Story of Syd Mandelbaum
S3, E6 begins with the story of the Mandelbaum family in the late 1930’s and 40’s, and includes the harrowing tale of those family members who miraculously survived the holocaust, and the tragedy of those family members who didn’t. He describes the day his Aunt Regina saved his mother from certain death during the Nazi “selection process” in 1942 and how that one single act of courage ultimately saved generations to follow.
Syd recounts how he became inspired by the events of the holocaust to feed the hungry, to serve the impoverished, and to fight bias here in the United States. He explains how he found his calling to create the food-recovery organization “Rock and Wrap it Up!” (RWU) and how for 33 years RWU has recovered over one billion pounds of food (billion with a “b”) from concerts, sporting events, hospitals, TV and film shoots, and the list goes on.
Where does music come into the story? Well just you wait. Listen during the second half of the episode how Syd’s connections came to include the likes of Sandy Chapin, the Rolling Stones, Black Crowes, the legendary concert promotor Ron Delsener, Phish, Bruce Hornsby, Branford Marsalis, Mickey Hart, Phil Lesh, and yup, even Jerry, just to name a few. Tune in to find out how Syd, at 74 years young, is still actively involved in both the music and the publishing industries.
Join us, and let’s see where the energy takes us! #IFE
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