Musician-Aid Requests, presented in collaboration with Resonant Motion, has been my humble attempt to encourage folks to offer support to artists financially burdened by by the COVID-19 pandemic. These videos fulfill the requests that I’ve promised to perform in exchange for folks helping out, whether donating money to funds/charities working to provide emergency services/funding to musicians, making direct contributions to or purchases (of music, merch, or online lessons) from those musicians in that amount, or offering them needed pro bono services.
Volumes 7-21 of this initiative were aided in part by the support of the Department of Economic and Community Development/Connecticut Office of the Arts as part of their Artists Respond grant program. Volumes 25-38 were aided in part by a CT Humanities CT Cultural Fund Operating Support Grant, with funding provided by the Connecticut State Department of Economic and Community Development/Connecticut Office of the Arts from the Connecticut State Legislature.
Volume 40: The Leaving
Volume 39: Fantasy (featuring Taylor Simone Harvey, Jesse Lewis, Ray LeVier, Eric Sherman, Jen Wharton, and Matt McLean)
Volume 38: Bridge Over Troubled Water (featuring Stankeye Jones and the Vagabond Librarians)
Volume 37: For Free (featuring Colin Aberdeen, Darryl Harper, Natalie Greffel, and Dave Edwards)
Volume 36: Free Bird (featuring Dave Kopperman, Erica von Kleist, Gary Wang, and Cory Cox)
Volume 35: Con Alma (featuring Henry Lugo)
Volume 34: Miyako
Volume 33: I’ll Remember April (featuring Jonathan Michel and Curtis Nowosad)
Volume 32: A Good Year to You (featuring Bryan Titus, Matt Steckler, Antar Goodwin, and Rachel Housle)
Volume 31: Homeless
Volume 30: Surrey with the Fringe on Top
Volume 29: Downpressor Man (featuring Don Minott, Anand Nayak, Tim Norton, and Michael Petrucci)
Volume 28: Famous Blue Raincoat (featuring Charissa Hoffman)
Volume 27: Medley: My Wild Irish Rose, It Was A Very Good Year, Ring of Fire, and What A Wonderful World (featuring Miles Griffith, Orice Jenkins, Caroline Davis, Jon Irabagon, Ike Sturm, and Mike Muschell)
Volume 26: The Rose (featuring Waberi Jordan, Matt Dwonszyk, and Tanner Guss)
Volume 25: Schaap Talk (featuring Bob Hart and Jonathan Barber)
Volume 24: I Could Have Danced All Night (featuring Lisa Marien, Brian Charette, and Carmen Intorre Jr)
Volume 23: Body & Soul (featuring David Bertrand, Jeff Fuller, Dani Zanuttini-Frank, and Joe Murfin)
Volume 22: Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? (featuring Kim Nalley, Todd Marcus, and Scott Rosen)
Volume 21: Have You Ever Seen the Rain? (featuring Karen Hogg, Marvin McNeill, Gregory Jones, Scott Kessel, and Amber Michael)
Volume 20: Time and a Word (featuring Katherine Paterson, James Burton III, and Alex Tripp)
Volume 19: Landslide (featuring Mariana Makwaia, Magdalena Abrego, and Sunny Jain)
Volume 18: O-o-h Child (featuring Jess Best, David Davis, Jim Chapdelaine, Connor Schultze, and Isaac Monts)
Volume 17: Let It Fall (featuring Daphne Gale, Becket Cerny, Jarett Jean-Jacques, Deidra Montgomery, and Allison Lazur)
Volume 16: Biko (featuring Tammy Scheffer, Jocelyn Pleasant, Adam Matlock, Sharon Ray, and Sam Dickey)
Volume 15: Where To, My Love (featuring Dr. Tiffany Renee Jackson)
Volume 14: Victims of the Ruthless
Volume 13: Inner City Blues (feat. Alexa Patrick, Johnnie Gilmore, and Dwayne Keith)
Volume 12: Imagine (featuring Marcos Torres III, Sean Clapis, Latanya Farrell, and Jason Farrell, Jr.)
Volume 11: God Bless America (featuring Raphael Massie)
Volume 10: Sunless Saturday (featuring Garth., Spencer H, Matt Bernstein, Q[ire], and Best Mann)
Volume 9: On the Sunny Side of the Street (featuring Kris Allen, Julius Tolentino, Wayne Escoffery, Jimmy Greene, Amanda Monaco, and Jake Goldbas)
Volume 8: Hymn to Freedom (featuring Jay Sawyer and Gabe Gordon)
Volume 7: Minute By Minute (featuring Erica T Bryan, Tom Sullivan, and Gabe Gordon)
Volume 6: Allie’s Tune
Volume 5: Harvest for the World
Volume 4: Rome
Volume 3: It Ain’t No Use
Volume 2: The Final Countdown (Stankeye Jones and the Vagabond Librarians)
Volume 1: In My Life