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Vol. 26 2020 Annual Report Our Mission: Helping Musicians Make It vol. 26 2020 Annual Report Our Mission: Helping Musicians Make It Sustenance Education Performance Provides ongoing support Makes American musical Supports artistic excellence to artists living in chronic heritage accessible through professional poverty and emergency to current and future development, tour booking grants to artists in crisis generations through and management services public exhibitions, youth engagement, and archival preservation Music Maker Staff Timothy Duffy, Executive Director Denise Duffy, Managing Director Aaron Greenhood, Program Manager Christelle Ndong, Artist Support Specialist Mollie O’Reilly, Advancement Coordinator Cornelius Lewis, Communications Manager Music Maker Board of Directors Timothy Duffy, President Henry Slyker Rich Henneberry, Treasurer Rick Teller Catherine Elkins, Secretary Saramel Evans Denise Duffy Tom Wallack Bill Puckett Dom Flemons Carey Barnes Music Maker Advisory Board L to R: Sammy Blue, Beverly “Guitar” Watkins, and Cootie Stark, 1996 © M. Austin Bonnie Raitt Dan Auerbach Ardie Dean Taj Mahal Jackson Browne Tift Merritt “They said that I play like a man, but they’re using the Dickey Betts Tom Rankin Jimmy Herring Sue Foley wrong terminology. The main thing is that I play so good” Derek Trucks Pura Fé Susan Tedeschi Pete Townshend Founders – Elvin Bishop B.B. King (1925–2015) Beverly “Guitar” Watkins (1939–2019) Levon Helm (1940–2012) Col. Bruce Hampton (1947–2017) Since then, Music Maker has been able to more “We need our than double the amount of financial assistance provided to our Partner Artists and replace 50% of American Bards... our musicians’ lost gig income for April, May, and June. We were also able to reach out to our friends they give us at the New Orleans Preservation Hall and welcome something to hold 12 new musicians to our Sustenance Program. Our Artist Services Specialist, Christelle Ndong, onto.” MSW formed a COVID-19 Care Team with our most trusted volunteers. They have been assessing and monitoring artist needs with biweekly check- ins. In response to those needs, we arranged for the Arts. It is premiering near Freeman’s grocery deliveries, connected artists with other hometown at the Greenville Museum of Art assistance programs, provided gift cards so others this summer and will be touring the country can shop for artists in isolation, and more. The for years to come. We made a virtual exhibit at artists often tell Christelle that the calls from her exhibit.hangingtreeguitars.com so everyone, and her team of volunteers mean as much to them everywhere can experience this work. The book as the prescription medicine or home deliveries of and exhibition are the culmination of a five-year food. Isolation and loneliness weigh heavy on our partnership between Freeman and Music Maker. Partner Artists, and we all need each other during Don’t miss this incredibly moving book, now this challenging time. available at musicmaker.org. Music Maker Staff, Faith & Harmony, The Glorifying Vines Sisters, Albert Harrison and the Gospel Jubilees, Dedicated Men of Zion, family, and friends at Music Maker 25, 2019 © M. Austin Our small, dedicated team banded together to keep This summer, we were able to continue our Freight our mission alive. Miraculously, Jeffrey Brown of Train Blues series online. We will be offering PBS NewsHour responded to our inquiry and livestream concerts throughout the fall, so please put together a feature story on Pat “Mother Blues” keep an eye on our social media and website tour A letter from our Co-Founders Cohen and how she is handling this crisis. With calendar so you can join us. We remain steadfast no money to give, she gives her talent, singing to in our mission and we will survive and learn from this experience, so that when we get to Dear Friends of Music Maker, were put on hold. her brother and the other residents at the nursing home where he resides in Salisbury, NC. There the other side, we will be stronger and better In February, board member Carey Barnes, Denise Each year Music Maker books and manages was an overwhelming response to this piece, equipped to continue to help the artists we serve. and I traveled to England, where Music Maker about 500 artist performances at musical events bringing in many new supporters to our mission. We need our American Bards at such times, they artist Freeman Vines had his museum debut at The throughout the US and abroad. Back in February, We welcome you all and thank you dearly for your give us something to hold onto, a moment of Turner Contemporary Museum of Art. We were so it appeared that 2020 was going to be another busy support. brightness and understanding and relief from the excited to see one of our musicians from Eastern year, but by early April, nearly all of our Partner day to day in this world of crisis. North Carolina getting international recognition, Artists’ gigs were canceled. We knew the financial While we are saddened by the merciless toll of including a beautiful color photograph of one of impact and disappointment for our musicians COVID-19 on the elderly and in communities Thank you so much for supporting the Music his guitars in The Guardian. would be heavy. With the need to isolate, and of color, we are also inspired by the increased Makers! protect folks over 65, the needs of our musician awareness and demand for social justice and Upon our return, we hosted record executive Bruce community grew at the very time the pandemic racial equity that is arising in our nation. Breaking Watson of Fat Possum and Bible & Tire Records wiped out their income. the silence of white supremacy and reckoning at our new Music Maker East studio in Fountain, honestly with our history, and present, is the only NC. Bruce recorded and filmed13 Sacred Soul Music Maker chose not to lose heart or momentum, way America will ever fulfill its promise of liberty groups in five days for an upcoming album and but to pivot hard and lean into this pandemic era and justice for all. - Tim & Denise Duffy documentary. Sacred Soul artists, the Dedicated and the challenges it presents. A number of stalwart Men of Zion, recorded their debut album for Bible supporters put together a $60,000 matching gift Freeman Vines examines his personal journey and Tire Records last fall. We secured a European challenge. Through the generosity of hundreds of being Black in rural America in his new book booking agency for them and they were set to hit of individuals and significant support from a few and exhibition entitled Hanging Tree Guitars. This the festival circuit this spring and summer. Then granting foundations, that challenge was met with exhibit was funded by the National Endowment suddenly, along with the rest of the world, all plans more than $100,000 worth of support. for the Humanities and the National Endowment Go to exhibit.hangingtreeguitars.com to explore Freeman Vines’ virtual exhibition! Hanging Tree Guitars at Greenville Museum of Art, 2020 © W. Wojdynski Check out all our releases on bandcamp! Freeman Vines: Hanging Tree Guitars Following a group show at the Turner Contemporary in Kent, UK, Freeman Vines’ work will premiere in the US with the solo exhibition: Hanging Tree Guitars at the Greenville Museum of Art. Greenville Museum of Art (Greenville, NC) Jul. 15, 2020 – Oct. 10, 2021 Portsmouth Art & Cultural Center (Portsmouth, VA) Feb. 15 2021 – May 7, 2021 The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (Winston-Salem, NC) Jun. 9, 2021 – Sept. 15, 2021 Other Exhibit Dates Blue Muse Phillips Museum of Art (Lancaster, PA) Jan. 19, 2021 – May 15, 2021 Our Living Past musicmaker.bandcamp.com facebook.com/musicmakerrelieoundation @musicmakerblues Birthplace of Country Music Museum (Bristol, VA) Apr. 18, 2021 – Sep. 30,2021 Piedmont Arts (Martinsville, VA) Jan. 21, 2022 – Mar. 12, 2022 @musicmakerblues youtube.com/musicmakerrelieoundation soundcloud.com/musicmakerrelief Hanging Tree Guitars Exhibition Sponsorship: The National Endowment for the Humanities and Music Maker Relief Foundation together: Exploring the human endeavor. This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Check out our blog: musicmaker.org/blog The End of the Regular Gig The Blues was born in the South and dispersed Cohen is known for her incredible showmanship wherever people would congregate. Shot houses, and infectious confidence. She had a regular railroad depots, local bars, VFW halls, and other paying gig at The Citadel nursing home in community gathering places served as the melting Salisbury, NC, where her brother lives, singing to pots in which our greatest cultural export was the facility’s residents. The nursing home was the forged. These regular gigs provided daily bread site of a notable COVID-19 outbreak, with over for the artists who played them and continue to be 150 cases in the 160-bed facility. a critical part of the working musician’s ability to Even though a lockdown forced the home to sustain themselves. cancel all of Pat’s paying gigs, she continues to There are no better representatives of the working sing to her brother and the other residents outside musician than Music Maker Partner Artists of their windows. “Everybody is stuck in their Ernie Vincent and Albert White. Ernie (New rooms, everybody is afraid,” says Pat. “I want to Orleans, LA) and Albert (Atlanta, GA) have been do something that’s going to brighten up their performing weekly at bars and clubs in their d ay.” hometowns since the early 1960s. For these two, a Thanks to the support of our donors, Music Maker 50-year run of steady gigs suddenly ended in this stepped in to provide critical support for Albert pandemic, with no end in sight.
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