12/09/2025
Last night, some members of the Bigger Beast family got together to deliver all of the toys from our 1st Annual Holiday Toy Drive & Concert at Historic Lyric Hall!
Bryan Titus, Denise Jones (of Inner Groove), Robert C. Fullerton, & Lee Totten met me at the location collecting and distributing for New Haven County (which is at the Meriden Mall this year) and helped unload the U-Haul trailer filled with toys!
First things first:
- Thank you to all of the artists that performed and helped gather toys!
- Thank you to John and the folks at Lyric Hall for being wonderful hosts of the event ♥️
- Thank you to all of the volunteers for coming out, taking photos, prepping the baskets, packing up the gifts, etc.🙏
- Thank you to the whole bigger beast team for your tireless efforts.🙏
- Thank you to Sgt. Liquori and all of the volnteers at Toys For Tots for your selfless generosity and efforts ♥️
- Thank you to all of you who supported the event and brought toys!🧸
Next:
- We wanted you to know that we made a huge dent this year in helping the New Haven region Toys for Tots, however they have requests to help over 15,000 children in the region have a toy for the holidays and they are having a very down year. As a result, I wanted to remind you all that they are accepting donations of toys in person and they are accepting payment donations online. Please do what you can to help brighten the holidays for these children during what is a very challenging time for so many ♥️
Lastly:
- this was our first year doing this drive and we are absolutely blown away by the community response. So I want you all to mark your calendars for our 2026 drive on Saturday December 5th! We’re gonna set some pretty big goals and look to grow this event even larger!
- in January Bigger Beast will be launching a new year long program that will release an annual limited edition vinyl record compilation tied to a new acoustic filming and recording project we will be announcing. All proceeds from the sales of this limited edition record will go towards toys for children via Toys for Tots every December with the goal of delivering over $10k worth of toys every year to children for the holidays ♥️
Again - we thank you all from the bottom of my heart for supporting this community of artists and helping us make an impact 🙏
Happy Holidays to you all ♥️