Hard Rock Café Valencia donates €5,000 to Music for Autism

A charity founded in the eastern Spanish city in 2013, the MUA helps train parents and teachers in music therapy and offers this to children and adults on the autism scale.

It also organises charity concerts, and has its own band made up of music pupils, all autistic.

The international Hard Rock Heals Foundation, the global restaurant and bar chain's charity wing, will fund two scholarships for music therapy sessions for low-income or no-income families with at least one autistic member, and will help finance the annual Jazz for Autism concert next year in Valencia's second-most prestigious concert hall, the Palau de la Música.

All proceeds from tickets to the Jazz for Autism show in 2018 will go to MUA.

Ever since it opened in the USA in 1971, the Hard Rock Café has focused heavily on corporate social responsibility and has funded charitable causes worldwide.

Valencia's Hard Rock Café opened this year, on May 28 on the Avenida Marqués de Sotelo, number 6.

It is owned by the umbrella company Food & Moments Group S.L., whose holdings include the Hard Rock Café in Marbella (Málaga province) and the Rock Shop at Mallorca's Son Sant Joan airport in Palma.

Anyone in Valencia, or planning to be, on Tuesday should head for the Hard Rock Café for 18.00 when the cheque will be handed over, and stay on afterwards for a fantastic live gig by the MUA Band, made up entirely of pupils of the charity's music therapy workshops.

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