World's Largest Tweet-Up To Honor Late Singer/Songwriter Katie Reider During Annual Taste of Cincinnati May 23-25

World's Largest Tweet-Up To Honor Late Singer/Songwriter Katie Reider During Annual Taste of Cincinnati May 23-25

CINCINNATI, May 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Cincinnatians and music fans around the world are preparing to honor the late singer-songwriter Katie Reider - an inspiration to thousands for her exquisite music, her remarkable courage and strength, and her inclusive values - with 3 Tweets 4 Katie: The World's Largest Tweet-Up from P&G Gardens during the annual Taste of Cincinnati festival May 23-25, 2009. Approximately 500,000 attend Taste of Cincinnati, and the ultimate goal of the tweet-up campaign is for 500,000 to download Reider's music online. Tweets posted at http://3tweets4katie.com/ direct peeps across the globe to download Reider's music from http://500kin365.org/.

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Tens of thousands of tweets are expected to fill the Twitterverse over the Memorial Day weekend in honor Reider's life and music. The Friends of Katie Reider encourage peeps around the world to adopt new Twitterminology and embrace a Reider family tradition: "3" means "I love you" and "4" means "I love you, too." With tweets limited to 140 characters on Twitter, organizers believe the Reider family tradition of "3" and "4" may likely gain a global following as new Twitter shorthand.

During the Memorial Day weekend, Taste of Cincinnati will spotlight the Katie Reider Stage, presented by Avalon and Metromix.com Cincinnati at P&G Gardens, as the first stage in the history of Cincinnati named for a pioneer of gay and lesbian rights and as the first stage in the annals of Taste of Cincinnati named for a performer. The City of Cincinnati will proclaim May 23, which would have been Reider's 31st birthday, as "Katie Reider Day in Cincinnati." Reider passed away on July 14, 2008, at the age of 30 after battling a rare facial tumor that robbed her of her voice and sight in her left eye but not her will to live.

"Cincinnati has an extremely vibrant social media community and we are all very proud to tweet for Katie Reider and the inspiring way she lived her life," said Debba Haupert, founder of Girlfriendology.com, co-founder of Cincinnati Women Bloggers and the most followed person on Twitter in the Cincinnati market with nearly 12,000 followers. "I loved Katie's music and am honored to feature her in this social media celebration of her musical legacy and love of life and friendship."

Reider and her band - the Katie Reider Band - annually performed at Taste from 1998 through 2007, bringing diverse audiences together to celebrate the spirit of Cincinnati. Taste of Cincinnati, one of the nation's largest street festivals, will annually honor Reider with the presentation of the Katie Reider Spirit of Music Award. Reider released four albums, won five Cincinnati music awards and her songs were featured on television programming by ABC, Lifetime and on the WB's Dawson's Creek before health problems emerged in 2006. Her life was profiled by The New York Times shortly after she passed away.

To join in 3 Tweets 4 Katie: The World's Largest Tweet-Up, visit http://3tweets4katie.com/. Music fans can download two sets of Reider's songs for just $1 each at http://500kin365.org/. More than 80,000 people have been introduced to Reider's voice at http://500kin365.org/ since its launch on May 23, 2008, and the site has exceeded 3 million hits.

"I have been truly amazed at the outpouring of support by Katie's fans around the world and by Cincinnati officials who have embraced these honors for Katie and the way she lived her life," said Reider's partner, Karen Reider, who is traveling the nation with their two young boys for a year to promote her partner's legacy. "This is an opportunity for Katie's fans and all of Cincinnati to come together - at P&G Gardens and in the virtual world - to celebrate Katie's inclusive values of being real, transparent and vulnerable. I know this is making Katie's heart sing - she would be so proud."

For more information, contact:
Raymond Buse III
513.608.1604
buz@metaphorstudio.com

Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090520/CL20587
PRN Photo Desk, photodesk@prnewswire.com
Source: The Friends of Katie Reider

CONTACT: Raymond Buse III, +1-513-608-1604, buz@metaphorstudio.com, for
The Friends of Katie Reider

Web Site: http://500kin365.org/

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