Experience music again! Lost Art Music Festival debuts June 12, 2021 at gorgeous Foxhall Resort in Douglasville with a lineup featuring St. Paul & the Broken Bones, Shovels & Rope, The War and Treaty, Ben Nichols of Lucero and The Pink Stones, plus a Friday Night Kickoff Show with Aaron Lee Tasjan. The fine folks...
There’s not an event around that hasn’t been impacted by COVID-19 and the annual Georgia On My Mind benefit concert at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville is no exception. Last year, the concert was re-imagined as a live-stream benefit and this year, Gretsch Presents the 8th Annual Georgia On My Mind moves Lakeside at Five Arrow Farms in Social Circle, Georgia on April 17, 2021. The outdoor, socially distanced concert features performances by
The Georgia Music Foundation has established the Georgia Music Relief Fund to provide grants to professional musicians and technical crew who are experiencing financial hardship due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Grants of no less than $500 each will be awarded to eligible applicants as long as funds remain available. “No one could have ever predicted that almost overnight, musicians and crew members would lose their ability to play live or tour for a full year or more,” says songwriter and Georgia...
The Georgia Music Foundation, Mrs. G’s Music Foundation and the Otis Redding Foundation join forces to present a week-long summer music camp for the Boys and Girls Club of Albany July 6-10, 2020. Boys and Girls Club attendees will participate in “OMC 2.0: The Virtual Experience,” an interactive, online version of the robust Otis Music Camp that has grown exponentially in Macon over the past 13 years. The virtual experience continues Otis Redding’s mission of enhancing and motivating young minds...
Traditionally hosted at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, TN, the seventh annual “Gretsch Presents Georgia On My Mind” concert benefiting the Georgia Music Foundation will reach a global audience this year with an online musical event Tuesday, May 26 (8:00 PM/ET; 7:00 PM/CT) hosted by Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls and artist/songwriter Brent Cobb. Directed by photographer/filmmaker Curtis Wayne Millard, “Gretsch Presents Georgia On My Mind” will be streamed on Facebook.com/Georgiamusic and at GeorgiaMusicFoundation.org. The Peach Pickers host the 5th Annual Georgia On My Mind...
In early 2020, the Georgia Music Foundation awarded $99,615 in Georgia Music Grants to more than 20 schools and non-profit organizations for projects taking place this year. ...
Due to the ongoing measures for public safety, Georgia On My Mind 2020 is on hold until further notice. ...
Each year, the Peach Pickers – Rhett Akins, Dallas Davidson, and Ben Hayslip – assemble a blue-chip group of friends for an evening of music at the historic Ryman Auditorium to benefit the Georgia Music Foundation. Peach Pickers at at the Ryman (2018 photo by Terry Wyatt/Getty Images) The 2019 lineup includes: Dallas Davidson Rhett Akins Ben Hayslip Jamey Johnson John Berry Craig Campbell Michael Ray Brent Cobb Colt Ford Amy Ray Lindsay Ell Travis Denning Ray Fulcher Russell Moore & IIIrd...
Georgia music was on full display Tues., June 26, 2018 during the “Gretsch Presents the Fifth Annual Georgia On My Mind” benefit concert hosted by the Peach Pickers – Rhett Akins, Dallas Davidson, and Ben Hayslip– and emceed by SiriusXM’s Storme Warren at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. All proceeds benefit the Georgia Music Foundation and its efforts to support programs of music education, preservation and outreach statewide. (L-R) Rhett Akins, Ben Hayslip, Dinah Gretsch, Fred Gretsch, and Dallas Davidson attend the 5th Annual Georgia On...
In January of 2018, the Georgia Music Foundation announced that 17 Georgia schools and non-profit organizations had been selected to receive its annual Georgia Music grants. The grants are given each year to music preservation, education and outreach projects administered by non-profit organizations and public, private and charter schools statewide. The nearly $80,000 awarded awards was provided by a grant to the Georgia Music Foundation from the Riverview Foundation and by funds raised at the annual Georgia On My Mind...