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Wishlist Foundation is happy to welcome wife & husband team Liz Whelan-Summers & Matt Summers, to our Preparty Staff team!Liz and Matt didn’t exist for each other back in 1992 when Pearl Jam came onto the scene. But separately, they each discovered the band that would eventually be part of the glue that brought them together.In the early days Liz remembers listening to Jeremy over and over in her best friend’s bedroom, watching the videos for Alive and Jeremy on MTV (when they actually played mostly music videos!), and being the proud owner of a grainy bootleg VHS tape of...

Wishlist Foundation is happy to welcome Chris Girard to the Preparty Staff team.Chris attended his first Wishlist Foundation preparty fundraiser in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 2006, then Detroit 2006. Since then, Chris has volunteered at every show he's attended since, (14 of them!). In 2016, Chris was the organizer for the Lexington preparty fundraiser and volunteered at 5 other events.Chris has been in restaurant executive management for 26 years handling all hiring, accounting, budgeting and scheduling. He's now disabled due to 6 different cervical and back fusions.He loves helping whenever he can and loves the relationships he's formed through Wishlist...

Wishlist Foundation regrets our typographical error in the misspelling of new preparty staff member Chris Girard in our recent Platinum Member gift letter. Further, we deeply apologize for listing new preparty staff members Liz Whelan-Summers and Matt Summers as Liz Woods and Matt Woods.  Our sincerest apologies to all parties effected - Chris, Liz and Matt.