Jan 18, 2022 | MMRF - Releases, Press Releases
South Carolina Barrelhouse Pianist Albert Smith’s Debut Album Big Belly Mama to See Release As Part of MMF’s Exclusive Listeners Circle Series on February 1 “She is probably the greatest living blues guitarist that no one has ever heard of.” —Oxford...
Dec 16, 2021 | MMRF - Releases, Press Releases
The first edition in this new series from Mississippi’s oldest distillery now available Jackson, MS & Hillsborough, NC — Cathead Distillery, Mississippi’s first and oldest legal distillery, is proud to support Music Maker Foundation and their mission to tend...
Oct 20, 2021 | Bible & Tire - Releases, MMRF - Releases, Press Releases
Outlets like NPR, MOJO, WNYC, and DownBeat are hailing Sacred Soul of North Carolina, the compilation album and half-hour documentary film out last week on Bible & Tire Recording Co. and Music Maker Foundation. The landmark collection was newly recorded by...
Sep 29, 2021 | Bible & Tire - Releases, MMRF - Releases, Press Releases
Album and accompanying film recorded in the field in makeshift recording studio in rural, eastern NC right before pandemic Bible & Tire Recording Co. and Music Maker Relief Foundation have shared the new single from the landmark Sacred Soul of North Carolina...
Aug 17, 2021 | Bible & Tire - Releases, MMRF - Releases, Press Releases
Accompanying Documentary Film Out Oct. 5 Via Folkstreams When Tim Duffy of the Music Maker Foundation took Memphis’ Bruce Watson (Fat Possum Records, Big Legal Mess, and the new Bible & Tire Recording Co.) to rural eastern North Carolina to hear sacred soul music,...
Apr 22, 2021 | MMRF - Releases, Press Releases
Performances by Amythyst Kiah, Johnny Ray Daniels, The Hamiltones, Alexa Rose, and Harvey Dalton Arnold Livestream each concert via the links below: Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/MusicMakerReliefFoundation/live/ YouTube Live:...
Mar 30, 2021 | MMRF - Releases, Press Releases
After year of unprecedented artist struggle, Music Maker Relief Foundation moves to fill the gaps, stave off pawn shops and predatory loans “One of the main barriers right now for the population over sixty-five is technology. You know, you have to have access to a...
May 18, 2020 | MMRF - Releases, Press Releases
Livestream Music Series Honoring Piedmont Blues Woman Elizabeth ‘Libba’ Cotten To Feature N.C. Artists Tune into the livestream via: Facebook LIVE: https://www.facebook.com/MusicMakerReliefFoundation/live/ Youtube LIVE:...
Apr 14, 2020 | MMRF - Releases, Press Releases
Mississippi’s Cathead Distillery Donates Hand Sanitizer to Blues Artists In Poverty In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Mississippi’s Cathead Distillery has shifted their operations to produce hand sanitizer. Today, it expanded its support of the arts...
Mar 26, 2020 | MMRF - Releases, Press Releases
And What Music Maker Relief Foundation Is Doing To Help Since 1994, Music Maker Relief Foundation (MMRF) has helped over 500 musicians and has been featured on ABC, PBS NewsHour, NPR Weekend Edition, and many more. Through its sustenance program, elderly roots...
Jan 28, 2020 | MMRF - Releases, Press Releases
Former Bourbon Street performer Pat “Mother Blues” Cohen returns to New Orleans for the first time since Hurricane Katrina New Orleans, L.A. – The Music Maker Blues Revue is an all-star band and a thriving musical institution. It was born in the early 1990s as a...
Oct 1, 2019 | MMRF - Releases, Press Releases
Duke Performances partners with the MMRF to present Music Maker 25 at The Fruit. Works from significant visual artists such as Lonnie Holley (The Met, MASS MoCA), Sam “the Dot Man” McMillan (SECCA), Freeman Vines, and Music Maker founder Timothy Duffy (NOMA, the...
Apr 25, 2019 | MMRF - Releases, Press Releases
Preserving the Roots of the American South The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) presents Timothy Duffy: Blue Muse, on view April 25, 2019 through July 28, 2019. Using a photography process invented in the United States in the nineteenth-century, Timothy Duffy creates...
