We’re raising funds to help heal musicians in need thru the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund. For every $1 donation received we will add $4 for a total $5 donation.
Every donation will automatically be entered into our raffle. At the end of each month one lucky donor will be gifted 4 private online lessons in Essential Blues Guitar with Mighty Mike Schermer and a Curtis Novak T-Shirt!
Donate now to help your fellow musicians who are struggling and keep the music community full of love, compassion and joy. Your $1 donation ticket is available in cart at checkout.
Donation/Raffle Rules:
• No minimum purchase required to donate and enter raffle.
• Every donation is automatically entered into the raffle.
• Your $1 donation ticket will be available in cart at checkout.
• One donation ticket allotted per order.
• WIth every $1 ticket sold we will add $4 for a full $5 donation to Sweet Relief.
Winners are drawn every month!
ABOUT MIKE
Mighty Mike Schermer has toured and/or recorded with such legendary figures as Bonnie Raitt, Elvin Bishop, Marcia Ball, Charlie Musselwhite, Jimmy Rogers, Pinetop Perkins, Hubert Sumlin and many more! His deep knowledge of the various styles of blues guitar playing has also made him a highly sought after clinician and music educator.
As the foundation of almost every genre of American music, a solid understanding of the blues will make you a better guitar player whether you are into rock, country, bluegrass, funk, R&B or jazz. Blues are the roots. Know your roots!
Essential Blues Guitar classes are performance oriented and designed for players of intermediate to advanced abilities. While the focus of these classes will be on playing guitar in an ensemble (band) setting, there will be plenty of material for even the most bashful bedroom player to absorb and enjoy. This is a unique opportunity to learn to learn the very essentials of blues guitar from a legitimate touring professional. Acoustic or electric!
About Sweet Relief
Sweet Relief Musicians Fund provides financial assistance to all types of career musicians and music industry workers who are struggling to make ends meet while facing illness, disability, or age-related problems.
Music makes our lives, and the events in our lives, special and memorable. While few find fame and fortune, most musicians remain in the field for their love and passion of music. The choice an individual makes to be a professional musician is one of sacrifice. The average income across the various employment options, while accounting for the part-time nature of most opportunities, is less than $25,000 annually. Over 65% of professional musicians do not have health insurance. Since the mid 1960s (Post Beatles) the number of individuals choosing music as a career has grown exponentially. Previous to this time, most professionals were either orchestra and classical players or jazz and blues artists. The explosion of pop, rock and country career musicians over a 20-year period in the U.S. has represented an artistic and cultural revolution.
The financial hardship a working musician faces when dealing with illness or disability is a constant, but we now also face a burgeoning elder population of artists with little or no resources available for such emergency situations.
