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Also, in the upper right hand corner, you will find a drop-down menu. Websites listing some of the contemporary jazz musicians, live streams, obituaries, artificial intelligence, a fan's prospective and past grammys. If you would like to add someone to the website listing, please contact me at the drop-down menu. The artists websites will take you to their Facebook, X and Instagram sites. You can then find out more about their music and upcoming tours.
❤️❤️🎷🎷DAVE KOZ AND SUMMER HORNS PLAYING ON AN ALASKAN AIRLINES FLIGHT!! WHAT A HOOT!!! HE TURNED A DELAY, THANKS TO A FLIGHT ATTENDANT, INTO A PARTY!. WATCH THIS INSTAGRAM AND LUCKY PASSENGERS!!❤️🔥IT MAY BE ON GOOD MORNING AMERICA TOMORROW!
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNeQZmMS4ej/?igsh=OW92bGdmd2d6cXFn
❤️🎹JEFF LORBER
"Grateful for all who are listening..." See him and Jazz Funk Soul members at either Keystone Korner or the Birchmere (see details below) https://www.instagram.com/reel/DM8Y1qzxQ8h/?igsh=Z2wyeGRuenBvc2Jk
❤️🎷🐶GERALD ALBRIGHT
So adorable, the Albright's dog Bella grooving to the music of her person. Yes she is Living the Good Life! Mediabase has it #22 on the chart.
🔥https://www.instagram.com/reel/DM9PiwVAa8s/?igsh=N3U5ZnNiYzA0cDg3
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMwUGyWAhaH/?igsh=bnh4Z2hwMnF0a3pv
NOTEWORTHY
❤️🎹 DAVID BENOIT, a contemporary jazz legend:
For four decades, the GRAMMY®-nominated pianist/composer/ arranger David Benoit has reigned supreme as one of the founding fathers of Contemporary Jazz.
When he was coming up, Benoit worked with singers Patti Austin, Connie Stevens, Ann-Margaret, and Lainie Kazan as her musical director/conductor. In 1976, Benoit released albums on the AVI label from 1977 to 1984. He later released several chart-topping recordings for GRP, including Freedom at Midnight (1987), Waiting for Spring (1989) and Shadows (1991), which both topped Billboard’s Contemporary Jazz Charts at #5, #1, and #2, respectively.
His other noteworthy recordings include Letter to Evan (1992), his tribute to another piano influence, Bill Evans, and Here’s to You, Charlie Brown: Fifty Great Years (2000). Benoit also recorded with Russ Freeman on their album The Benoit/Freeman Project (1994), and on their follow-up collaboration, 2 (2004), which was released on Peak Records. His other recordings for the label include American Landscape (1997) and Orchestral Stories (2005), which featured his first piano concerto, “The Centaur and the Sphinx,” and a symphonic work, “Kobe”.
He has received three GRAMMY® nominations in the categories of Best Contemporary Jazz Performance for “Every Step of the Way” (1989), Best Large Ensemble Performance for GRP All-Star Big Band (1996), and Best Instrumental Composition for “Dad’s Room,” the latter from the album Professional Dreamer (2000). He has also worked with an impressive potpourri of musicians including the Rippingtons, Emily Remler, the late Alphonse Mouzon, Dave Koz, Faith Hill, David Sanborn, CeCe Winans, Keiko Matsui, Hiroshima, and Brian McKnight.
David’s career as a contemporary jazz pianist began in 1977 and includes 41 solo recordings over the past 40 years. Many of these, including his 1987 GRP Records debut “Freedom at Midnight” and its Grammy nominated 1988 follow-up “Every Step Of The Way”, are considered influential classics in the genre.
Listen to Timeless with Spice Fusion (2024) 🔥and his latest album Steinway After Dark - magical on your favorite platform.
❤️😪CHUCK MAGIONE - Flugelhorn
The Grammy-winning jazz bandleader and musician who scored an unlikely top-five hit in 1978 with the jazz instrumental "Feels So Good," has died at age 84, according to a note on his official website.
Born in Rochester, New York, on Nov. 29, 1940, Mangione early on performed and recorded as the Mangione Brothers with his sibling, keyboardist Gaspare "Gap" Mangione. After graduating from the prestigious Eastman School of Music in his hometown, he played trumpet with famed bandleader Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers as well as with various other ensembles, including recording the album "Friends & Love…A Chuck Mangione Concert" with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra in 1970.
Mangione's notoriety grew with subsequent recordings of his compositions, including the 1975 RIAA-certified gold album "Chase the Clouds Away," the title track from which was used in coverage of the 1976 Summer Olympics, and the Grammy-winning "Bellavia" in 1977. But it was Mangione's 1977 album "Feels So Good" and its pop radio title track hit that made him a household name. Featuring Mangione playing the flugelhorn and backed by his longtime quartet of guitarist Grant Geissman, bassist Charles Meeks, multi-instrumentalist Chris Vadala and James Bradley Jr. on percussion, the single reached No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, while the album peaked in the No. 2 position on the all-genre Billboard 200 albums chart – second only to the soundtrack to "Saturday Night Fever," by the Bee Gees. "Feels So Good" ultimately was RIAA-certified double-platinum for sales of more than two million units.
Chuck Mangione on YouTube, Feels So Good:
https://youtu.be/ZOtxTyJmxVI?si=s5rcJ5y73jDjtunF
Children of Sanchez:
https://youtu.be/d3JRvcxH52c?si=3DkJ3nzdv9m_KGjt
🎺Rick Braun's beautiful Instagram post:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMhC9mzRDDa/?igsh=MTllZzVqd3Z3a2xudw==
🎸Adam Hawley at a NYE party at Rick Braun's🎺 with Vincent Ingala🎷:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMgHQ4hPwth/?igsh=MXZncHg4c3M4bzJzeg==
🏆🏆ANNOUNCING THE 2026 GRAMMYs🏆🏆
The 2026 GRAMMY Awards are officially returning to Los Angeles on Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026!
✉️ The 2026 GRAMMY Awards nominations announcement will be revealed on Friday, Nov. 7, 2025.
Click below to view all key dates and deadlines related to the 2026 GRAMMYs ⬇
https://www.grammy.com/news/2026-grammys-new-categories-announced?utm_source=fan-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=grammys
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✨️KEYSTONE KORNER✨️
Baltimore, MD
Live and Streaming www.keystonekornerbaltimore.com
https://youtu.be/-EfYLovsLFY?si=skFq-zGZ-d4QCpCe
❤️🎸STANLEY CLARKE - August 23-24 (in person only)
NEA Jazz Master and four-time Grammy Award Winner Stanley Clarke has attained "living legend" status during his over 50-year career as a bass virtuoso. He is the first bassist in history who doubles on acoustic and electric bass with equal ferocity and the first jazz-fusion bassist ever to headline tours, selling out shows worldwide. A veteran of over 40 albums who's played with the likes of Horace Silver, Art Blakey and Stan Getz, he won the 2011 Best Contemporary Jazz Album Grammy Award for The Stanley Clarke Band. Clarke co-founded the seminal fusion group Return to Forever with Chick Corea and Lenny White. In 2012, Return to Forever won a Grammy Award and Latin Grammy for Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Forever.
https://youtu.be/4DCahFBMEB8?si=w3R84bKl2NvWYbN2
..a perfectly combustible electric-acoustic outfit whose smart, often challenging and unpredictable compositions draw from fusion, postbop and contemporary jazz.”
— Jazz Times
Russell Ferrante [Piano & Synthesizers]
Bob Mintzer [Woodwinds & EWI]
Will Kennedy [Drums]
Dane Alderson [Bass]
Throughout their storied 43-year history, the Yellowjackets have recorded 25 albums, received 17 Grammy® nominations – won 2 – performed countless sold-out tours, and enjoyed worldwide critical acclaim and commercial success. The Yellowjackets formed in the late 1970’s as the backup band for guitarist Robben Ford. Since then, and with the addition of Bob Mintzer, the Yellowjackets have gained and maintained prominence as one of jazz’s most influential and loved groups. The reason for the name Yellowjackets was it seemed to connotate something lively, energetic, and something with a “sting”.
https://youtu.be/iKq63G-aDKE?si=1v9Q2I81sR6Orho7
https://youtu.be/NosOcpSG2mQ?si=K3VxIoZpzhPAn2Jh
❤️🎹🎷🎸JAZZ FUNK SOUL - November 14
Featuring three of the most important hitmakers on the scene today, this supergroup can whisk you're your mind away with Jazz, humble your heart with Soul, and make your foot stomp with Funk. When describing the performance of Jazz Funk Soul featuring 2018 Grammy winner Jeff Lorber, Grammy nominees Everette Harp and Paul Jackson Jr., you're talking about the real thing in adult contemporary music.Jazz Funk Soul has officially dropped their highly anticipated new album this June, Simpatico — featuring 10 tracks of pure groove and brilliance.
After 6 Grammy Nominations, keyboardist Jeff Lorber scored his first Grammy win in 2018, for Best Contemporary Instrumental album for his recording of "Prototype". Considered a master craftsman jazz pianist, Jeff Lorber has distinguished himself as a writer and producer (Dave Koz, Kenny G) with collaborations from Chick Corea to Gerald Albright with too many notables to be named in between.
Whether he is jamming with President Clinton or performing with Aretha Franklin, Billy Joel, Chaka Khan, Stanley Clarke, or Dianne Reeves, you always get 100% on stage with the captivating presence of 2015 Grammy Nominee and saxophonist Everette Harp.
Guitarist Paul Jackson Jr. received in 1989 a Grammy Nomination for Best R&B Instrumental "I Came to Play". He was the guitarist on three Grammy winning albums including Michael Jackson's "Thriller". Paul has either played with, composed for, or collaborated with an encyclopedia of music icons of all genres including Elton John, Whitney Houston, Patti LaBelle, George Benson, George Duke, David Benoit, and Al Jarreau, and heralded as "The Guitarist that can play anything" by Herbie Hancock.
SIMPATICO:
https://youtu.be/SU7FIkGWw2Y?si=fEVAipKLGJUMJ5iV
10 Grammy Awards | 10 Dove Awards | Gospel Music Hall of Famers | And more!
Take 6 members are: Claude McKnight, Mark Kibble, Joel Kibble, Dave Thomas, Alvin Chea and Khristian Dentle. Heralded by Quincy Jones as the “baddest vocal cats on the planet!,” is the quintessential a cappella group and the model for vocal genius.
✨️THE BIRCHMERE✨️
Alexandria, VA
www.birchmere.com
This is a great venue! (no streaming, in person only)
🎷❤️ Dave Koz & Friends - NOW AUGUST 27 - Rescheduled from 7/31 (due to flight cancelation) All 7/31 tickets honored. Refunds at place of purchase through 8/27.
❤️🎷KIM WATERS - September 13
Dear Friends and fans, I am happy to announce the release of my 26th CD "Time 2 Groove", which was released on April 11, 2025. Be sure to get your copy.
Thanks,
Kim Waters
🎹❤️The Birchmere Presents BRIAN CULBERTSON
Day Trip Tour Thursday, October 23, 2025, 8pm
Warner Theatre, Washington, DC
Tickets through Ticketmaster
www.ticketmaster.com
🎹❤️ KEIKO MATSUI - November 2 - Don't miss out tickets on sale July 25 at noon!!!
❤️🎸PETER WHITE CHRISTMAS- December 7
with VINCENT INGALA🎷 and MINDI ABAIR🎷 Tickets on sale August 1st!
✨️TIN PAN✨️
https://tinpanrva.com/
Experience the Tin Pan and the food:
https://youtu.be/Y7_8XdXgWPw?si=SDcbz_GSDIeGE9jp
Richmond Virginia area, this is another great venue! Dinner and a show!
❤️🎹 BRIAN SIMPSON - October 31
After graduating from Northern Illinois University, keyboardist and composer Brian Simpson relocated to Los Angeles where he was soon playing alongside musicians Gerald Albright and Norman Brown and eventually on a world tour with Janet Jackson.
In 1990 Simpson received a call from George Duke that led to a decade of touring and production work with the late jazz legend. It was his tenure with George that led to working with a variety of artists, from James Ingram and Anita Baker to Dave Koz and Wayman Tisdale.
The popularity of his music world wide has kept Mr. Simpson on a seemingly endless world tour which in 2019 included Japan, Australia, Korea, Indonesia, Philippines, Spain, United Kingdom, Portugal, and South Africa.
With writing and performing credits on R&B chart-topping albums and Smooth Jazz Airplay charts, it’s clear why Brian is the veteran Music Director of so many jazz events.
Brian is a recording artist with Shanachie Entertainment which released his eleventh CD entitled Soul Connection (2023).
https://youtu.be/nQHWUn7Z9dg?si=KkC-icT_U21btSdz
❤️🪈KIM SCOTT- November 14
✨️CAROLINA THEATER✨️
Durham, NC
https://carolinatheatre.org
❤️ TOWER OF POWER - September 8
❤️🎹 BRIAN CULBERTSON - Day Trip presenting at Fletcher Hall in Raleigh, NC - October 25
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❤️ACOUSTIC ALCHEMY
Tiny deck pop up deck concert NPR, Monterey Bay. Very cool!
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DL4Mk-auMwe/?igsh=cDNyYW9vbmwwOTV6
❤️🎷DAVE KOZ SUMMER HORNS 2025
Lots of energy to burn🔥:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMsstQrJ793/?igsh=MWR5bHVld2NoankzaQ==
Recent Instagram about NYC July 30:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMljAynJwrB/?igsh=emRoaXVkcXhvZjVy
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMGHistpXj9/?igsh=MW1yMTF0Zm81OTA3dA==
https://youtu.be/w6Yna372rCM?si=8w5gycB2qrGwVjnz
❤️MARCUS ANDERSON
❤️🎹HERBIE HANCOCK
See and hear his beautiful, compassionate speech on Instagram as he accepts the prestigious International Polar Music prize in Stockholm May 27. He has been called a jazz scientist!
The Polar Music Prize is one of the most prestigious and unique music prizes in the world, crossing over musical boundaries and awarded to individuals, groups and institutions in recognition of exceptional achievements. Laureates from a wide range of countries, cultures and continents have received the Prize in Stockholm from the hand of His Majesty, King Carl XVI Gustaf. Besides Herbie Hancock the other winners are the incredible Queen with Brian Mays and Roger Taylor with an amazing performance by Adam Lambert (see below) and Barbara Hannigan, a very talented Canadian classic singer and conductor.
Herbie Hancock speech:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKKsrPyPBOW/?igsh=MWl5NGJtbDhwNHk0aQ==
Most of the program is here with an amazing performance by Adam Lambert with Who Wants to Live Forever representing another winner the original Queen and Freddie Mercury.
Polar Prize Program (not entirely):
https://www.youtube.com/live/kllTHjhREvo?si=7RLJpi2gEeW1rXFi
WOW Adam Lambert performances:
Who Wants to Live Forever:
https://youtu.be/C3JQ2lx1DBQ?si=j3wST8LtoPhDK8KX
Another One Bites the Dust:
https://youtu.be/fKBdz2Rs48I?si=5jDaWJvL3e2d-Gg9</h1>
❤️WOW "Peter Gunn" new rendition for Henry Mancini's 100th Birthday includes HERBIE HANCOCK on piano.
Quincy Jones, John Williams and Herbie Hancock record a rendition of Henry Mancini's "Peter Gunn" in honor of the composer's 100th birthday.https://youtu.be/8dkwpHoDpXA?si=86DePqmz6AZQMu4S
❤️🎹BRIAN CULBERTSON "Over the past few years, I've been going back and listening more and more to music that inspired me as a young musician, artists like David Sanborn, The Brecker Bros, Chick Corea, Al Jarreau, Pat Metheny, and others in the jazz fusion world (before the term smooth jazz was created). It instantly brought me back to the days of 'no rules' and the pure joy of music, something that I think a lot of albums today are lacking.
With that said, I set out to write and produce a new album that would try to capture a little bit of that late 70's and early 80's spirit of music exploration, along with using only live musicians and real instruments (no computer sounds or quantized sequencing). Similar in style to Another Long Night Out, this is the daytime version!!
DAY TRIP TOUR SCHEDULE AND TICKETS:
www.brianculbertson.com
❤️🎹THE HANG
Support his long running show on YouTube Friday nights when not on tour. Please tip Brian for The Hang shows through CashApp, Venmo or PayPal or Join his Hang Club and hear him Monday and Wednesdays too!
YouTube Shows:
Julyv25 - Christmas in July
https://www.youtube.com/live/Ao9_lEHSJ00?si=ILGJDXupgjsGn6ph
July 18 - Summer Vacation
https://www.youtube.com/live/kllTHjhREvo?si=7RLJpi2gEeW1rXFi
July 11 - Summer Chill Out
https://www.youtube.com/live/UrBkqa-dT6o?si=T1OesBMjKXgeJy_8
4th of July Special💥https://www.youtube.com/live/IuIjsbizz5c?si=ms-zITP1MEprGxzR
June 27 - Summer Jams
https://www.youtube.com/live/WQor2fRhJbg?si=UPjpK4MCKDeDytJk
ON ILLINOIS FLOAT AT ROSE BOWL PARADE January 1, 2025🎶🎹❤️
Quite an honor for him to represent the city of Chicago and the state of Illinois👏👏
https://youtu.be/SsBRXhZyBzs?si=AdG1Cd-g6jzzGCFh
❤️🎷MICHAEL LINGTON
On August 17 he did a Summer Jam concert on Stageit. If you didn't see this, you missed another good one! He also debuted his new video for us that will be out later in September/October. The song was Goodbye a tribute to the late David Sanborn.. He also did a tribute to the late Bobby Caldwell, his mentor, who would have been 74 yesterday.
Wonderful, when he is on break from touring, that he does these shows online for grateful fans. He also has been doing these shows since the pandemic! Now he is back on tour so take a look at the upcoming dates on michaellington.com
Recent video release Dreamy Night🎷
https://youtu.be/kNJieBaYr1g?si=cUUC789aV-l6_H5u
Released February 28🎷On the Scene Message
https://youtube.com/shorts/7zBnr07qRE8?si=l0uZizEGQxaCdyjA
🎷On the Scene - Official Performance Video
https://youtu.be/X2f6806Cb80?si=xKqs2xmFeqtsHuyN
❤️🎷STAGE IT
Please support this long running show when not on tour on many Sundays. Pay what you can. Websites:
www.stageit.com/MichaelLington or www.michaellington.com
❤️🎸ADAM HAWLEY
Featuring❤️🎹 Judah Sealy (https://g.co/kgs/FVDs59D)
Also, your home for fresh new sounds, MBF Entertainment Records. Adam is excited to announce the expansion of his label MBF Entertainment https://www.mbfentertainment.com/
❤️🎷FABIAN CHAVEZ
Is "Chasing that Feeling"
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNGp-h6vcU-/?igsh=MWU2b21uZmNxdjlr
Bioiography:
https://share.google/an8erFr1o2EnONeL4
❤️🎤KAT HAWLEY
First Album Available Everywhere X-IX-VIII featuring Adam Hawley, Steve Cole, Greg Manning and Judah Sealy
Steam, Purchase Digital “X-IX-VIII,” featuring Billboard chart-toppers Adam Hawley, Steve Cole, Greg Manning and Judah Sealy, dropped on Friday, June 21; the single “Rather Be” goes for playlist added on Monday, June 24 serviced by Gorov Music Marketing.
LOS ANGELES, CA (21 JUNE 2024): Ready to capitalize on the opportunity to step into her own spotlight and make her own musical statement after years of flanking 16-time Billboard No. 1 hitmaker Adam Hawley, R&B-jazz singer-songwriter Kat Hawley released her debut album, “X-IX-VIII” on Friday (June 21). She wrote eight of the set’s ten songs with her guitarist husband, Adam, who produced the MBF Entertainment album. Of note and in memorial: "Lazy Afternoon” was recorded to memorialize the late Cecil Ramirez,❤️ a Bay Area pianist and friend of the Hawley’s. Greg Manning plays poignantly in place of Ramirez on this track.
For more information checkout her website at www.kathawley.com
❤️🎷DAVE KOZ & ❤️🎹BOB JAMES
THEY WERE TOGETHER ON TOUR
Order CD - JustUsAlbum.com
From Dave,
Thank you for all your amazing support. I hope you enjoy this new music Bob and I made that we're extremely proud of.
With much love and appreciation always…
Order the new album today!
Enhance your listening experience! Every CD purchase includes a limited-edition poster and a bonus track you can only hear on the CD.
BobJames.com | DaveKoz.com
❤️🎹 BOB JAMES with Granddaughter AVA
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFvjymiyHpR/?igsh=MWhlYmwxZGt6d2QzMg==
❤️🎷GERALD ALBRIGHT
www.geraldalbright.com
❤️🎸JONATHAN BUTLER
www.jonathanbutler.com
❤️🎷KIRK WHALUM
www.kirkwhalum.com
❤️🎷ANDREW NEU
Keep It Real a new single https://www.andrewneu.com/
❤️🎸PETER WHITE
His 17th album Light of Day was released in February 2025, veteran guitarist and contemporary jazz icon Peter White is celebrating a series of key personal and professional milestones. Having just turned 70, the British born artist says of the new collection, "I think this recording is one of the best I've ever made. I have as much enthusiasm and energy for music as I did in my twenties!" There are a lot of exciting twists and turns in the production throughout. Case in point, "Odyssey" features expansive arrangement, an excursion full of di erent moods, twists and turns, uncertainty and explosive excitement. Likewise, White gets the album o to a rollicking, rip-roaring start with the buoyant "Catalonia," whose spirit of high adventure echoes some of the guitarist's earlier epic tunes like "Ramon's Revenge" (from Good Day) and "Don Quixote's Final Quest" (from Smile). At the opposite end of the emotional spectrum, White fulfills a career-long goal by having legendary saxophonist Ernie Watts join him on the soulful, sensually romantic ballad "Enchanted" and taps one of smooth jazz's most exciting young artists, saxophonist Vincent Ingala, to create a passionate duet with his guitar on the heartfelt ballad "I Love You Still." Also in this gentler vein is the lilting, graceful tune "Till I See You Again", White's tribute to one of the genre's most impactful and beloved artists, the late guitarist Nick Colionne. Over the course of his 35- year recording career, White has had four #1 Billboard Contemporary Jazz Albums and seven #1 Smooth Jazz Airplay hits.
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆GRAMMY AWARD WINNERS
February 2, 2025
🏆Jazz Instrumental Album
Remembrance
❤️Chick Corea, Béla Fleck award and Chick Corea's daughter
🏆Urban Contemporary Album
So Glad to Know You
❤️Avery Sunshine
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFl4lQRSWhK/?igsh=MW9wa3gxbm0wZ2xzMw==
❤️Grammy moment honoring the memory of Quincy Jones. Herbie Hancock and Cynthia Erivo:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFvXejMCmPu/?igsh=MTBtOXBjamk2dm01aw=
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❤️PLEASE HOLD A SPECIAL PLACE IN YOUR HEART FOR JEFF LORBER.
HE AND HIS FAMILY HAVE LOST EVERYTHING, HOME AND STUDIO AT PACIFIC PALISADES, CA
He and his family are safe.
❤️🎹🎶JEFF LORBER RELEASED HIS NEW SINGLE, TEARDROPS IN THE RAIN (FOR SHELLEY) AND ALBUM - PLEASE SUPPORT THIS WONDERFUL SOOTHING NEW MUSIC. Purchase CD or through streaming services his new album ELEVATE.
https://www.lorber.com
❤️Message from Dave Koz on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DEoQYSsJ5WW/?igsh=MWFpbzJqOHg3c2pzNg==
❤️PLUS The GRAMMY family is deeply saddened by the horrific and destructive wildfires that took place in our beloved Southern California – a place that many within our music community call home.As the devastation unfolds, the Recording Academy and MusiCares have launched theLos Angeles Fire Relief Effort to support music creators and professionals impacted by the crisis, making a pledge of $1 million to kick off the efforts.
Let's rally together and help those who create the soundtracks of our lives at a time when they need us most. Thousands of families continue to be evacuated and displaced with no home to return to, and your donation can make all the difference in providing solace and comfort to the Angelenos impacted by this devastating natural disaster.
DONATE: https://donor.musicares.org/page/lafirerelief
"The entire GRAMMY family is shocked and deeply saddened by the situation that is unfolding in Los Angeles. The music community is being so severely impacted but we will come together as an industry to support one another. Our organizations exist to serve music people because music is a powerful force for good in the world, and we hope the broader industry will now rally to this cause."
— Harvey Mason jr., Recording Academy CEO
"We expect the disaster relief efforts in Los Angeles to be extraordinary, if even just on the basis of how many music people have lost their homes in the last day. MusiCares is always committed to ensuring that music professionals are supported in times of crisis, and we ask for the larger community to donate for those in need at this dire time."
— Laura Segura, Executive Director of MusiCaresSupport For Those In Need
If you've been directly impacted by the Los Angeles wildfires, we want to help. Here are immediate resources for those in critical need.
MusiCares Assistance
For many in the music community, disasters like this can disrupt even the most basic needs. MusiCares is here to provide support. If you or someone you know in the music industry is affected by these wildfires, please reach out by emailing musicaresrelief@musicares.org or calling 1-800-687-4227.
Disaster Resources And Information Through LA County
For updated information about evacuations, road closures, emergency resources and free shelter through Airbnb, visit the 211LA website.
Find A Shelter
The Red Cross is operating emergency shelters throughout the greater Los Angeles area. To access a shelter, visit the Red Cross website.
Uber
Residents in Los Angeles County who've been ordered to vacate their homes can get a credit from Uber to get to an evacuation site. The $40 will only be valid for trips to an active shelter and by using the code WILDFIRE25.
Lyft
Lyft announced it will be offering $25 vouchers, valid for two trips, to 500 customers from now until midnight on Jan. 15. Use the code CAFIRERELIEF25 to get the promotion.
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