MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WPDE) — The inaugural Myrtle Beach Songwriters Festival will benefit Help4Kids, an organization that feeds children across Horry County, with festival organizers and songwriters donating their time to support the group’s Backpack Buddies program.
Instead of giving money, songwriters packed bags of food for Backpack Buddies, which feeds thousands of children each week.
“As a teacher, I watched a lot of children who were hungry, and I was hungry as a child. And so, you don’t get to choose your childhood, but you get to choose your adulthood. And so I wanted to make sure that everything that I’m a part of is helping someone in some way or form. And so, when I started working with Backpack Buddies, it was just a perfect frying pan and butter situation for us with this foundation, because our tear system is built off of hope, health, and hunger. And hunger is such a pivotal thing because you can’t dream, you can’t have hope if you’re hungry. Those hunger pains are louder than any dream or song that you could write. So our first action of business here with the Songs that Save Foundation was to make sure kids are getting fed. Everything else grows from that,” said Melissa Joiner, director of the Myrtle Beach Songwriters Festival and Songs that Save Foundation.
Community members can assist Help4Kids by donating time, money or food, and by attending the inaugural songwriters festival…