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Help The BLUES FOUNDATION Combat COVID-19
The Blues Community thanks you in advance for your generosity. The Foundation will soon share detailed information on when applications for the COVID-19 Emergency Relief Fund will be available and how to apply as soon as the Blues Foundation has the minimum funds needed to begin offering support to applicants. |
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Colorado Blues Society Mission Statement
Colorado Blues Society Statement on Racism
The Colorado Blues Society acknowledges that the art form we love and know as The Blues was originally created by and remains an artistic expression of Black artists and musicians as their artistic response to slavery, oppression and injustice. The Colorado Blues Society will not remain silent in the face of the recent and past senseless murders of black Americans in our communities, whether the cause be overt racism, implicit bias, or systemic racism. We stand with the musicians and members of our communities in expressing our sadness and outrage at prejudice and injustice towards the black community and the lives that were taken so unjustly. The Colorado Blues Society grieves with their families for their losses.
The Board of Directors of the Colorado Blues Society
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While supplies last, the Colorado Blues Society will be giving away a free CBS bandana for every new membership or renewal of an existing membership,
Membership applications with on-line payment are available on our website www.coblues.org/membership
*** BOHEMIAN FOUNDATION NOCO-MUSIC RELIEF FUND To the Northern Colorado music community: if you or someone you know works in music and has been severely financially impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, check out the NoCo Music Relief Fund. This Bohemian Foundation fund provides assistance that may help.
The NoCo Music Relief Fund is meant to provide immediate relief for severe financial distress caused by lost income due to Coronavirus/COVID-19 precautionary measures. Severe financial distress might include low or no savings, an inability to cover basic needs such as food and rent or inability to meet financial responsibilities for family members in critical need.
Click the link to learn more:
bohemianfoundation.org/noco-music-relief-fund ****
| Joe Bonamassa's KTBA LAUNCHES FUELING MUSICIANS PROGRAM
Joe Bonamassa’s Fueling Musicians Program is an emergency relief plan for touring musicians affected by the COVID-19 crisis. This initiative is designed to support musicians by providing financial assistance for essential living expenses such as food, shelter, and more. Fueling Musicians provides immediate cash payments of $1,000, as well as pre-paid gas cards of $500 to help struggling musicians get back on the road again when it is safe. Your gift today will have an impact on the livelihood of struggling musicians. Please help with what you can - your donations go directly to musicians in need. If you are a musician that has been dramatically affected by the cancellation of shows due to COVID-19, click here to apply.
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The Colorado Arts Relief Program
Colorado Arts Relief Fund accepting applications for $2500 Grants. These grants are available to Colorado Musicians and Arts Organizations BUT the deadline is fast approaching and you MUST apply for them. If you do not need the grant, please pass this information onto another musician who might.
The Colorado Arts Relief program is a funding initiative passed by the State of Colorado legislature to support arts, cultural and entertainment artists, crew members and organizations suffering from the COVID-19 pandemic. Applications are due on January 8, 2021 at 4:00 pm MST.
This initiative directs up to $7.5 million for relief payments to eligible artists, crew members and organizations. Funding through this bill will be distributed through two separate grant applications:
Individual Grants
Individuals can apply to receive grants up to $2,500 designed to assist arts, culture, and entertainment artists and crew members who are experiencing income loss due to government-mandated closures and have been unable to generate meaningful income to replace income lost through the cancellation of events, classes, performances, and other related work. View the guidelines and application.
Business and Organization Grants
Businesses and organizations can apply to receive general operating support grants to arts, culture, and entertainment organizations who operate under a business model in which ticket sales and/or physical foot traffic direct a significant portion of total annual revenue that has been financially affected by venue closures due to the pandemic. View the guidelines and application.
These key economic tools foster economic stability and recovery by retaining Colorado’s arts industry jobs and businesses while preserving community cultural assets strained during the COVID-19 public health emergency.
Contact Information
Prior to contacting a staff member, applicants should read the guidelines thoroughly. Applicants seeking assistance with the program and eligibility requirements are advised to email Leigh Kargol ( Lkargol@redlineart.org ) at RedLine Contemporary Art Center well in advance of the application deadline.
Applicants seeking assistance with the grant portal are advised to email CCI staff well in advance of the application deadline.
LEARN MORE ABOUT COLORADO ARTS RELIEF FUND
Hey Musicians - Bands & Solo Performers!!!
Covid-19 is cutting into your gigs. Many of you have started streaming shows, music, concerts, lessons, etc.... online. If you do, let CBS help. Send your online performances to calendar@coblues.org just like you did your live gigs. Let CBS help spread the word on our website and the Weekly Update. To get it in the Upcoming Update please get the information to calendar@coblue.org as soon as possible! The service is FREE!
Sign up to support the Colorado Blues Society when you shop online at Amazon. Just visit smile.amazon.com where you can choose the Colorado Blues Society as your charity the first time you visit the site. The Amazon Smile Foundation will give 0.5% of the price of your eligible purchases to the Colorado Blues Society and will remember your selection the next time you shop.
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CBS is updating the music that is streamed from coblues.org . We will remove songs older songs and add new ones. If you are a member of CBS and you want your blues song featured on the site, please send a 320kbps MP3 file to webmaster@coblues.org . Please include your permission for CBS to stream the song from coblues.org. If you are covering another artist please include the mechanical copyright details that shows you are licensed to publish and stream the music.
CBS Business members (that includes bands and CBS acts) keep in mind as a member, for $25/month you can run an ad in the Weekly Update AND on this website. Send send us a .pdf or .jpg of your ad or poster (min size 293 width x 432 height) and we will link it to your website or event link. Not a CBS member? We'll give your ad the same two spots for $50 a month. That's a pretty cheap way to promote your act and something to keep in mind if you have a special show coming up down the road.
For more info send an email to chick1951@hotmail.com.
Every week the Colorado Blues Society sends out a Blues Update that includes timely blues related news, band introductions, jam and performance schedules and more. There is no cost or membership required to receive the Blues Update. If you would like to receive this excellent Colorado blues resource please sign up here.
The Colorado Blues Society has created an annual John-Alex Mason Scholarship to honor his memory and help continue the educational work he felt was so important. John-Alex took high school students from Colorado Springs to Mississippi on more than one occasion for an extended field trip that sometimes included visiting Memphis and New Orleans. This scholarship will help send student-aged musicians from Colorado to workshops and seminars that will further their blues music (and cultural) education. Your donations will help keep the dreams and memory of John-Alex alive.
To further our mission, we sponsor Blues in the Schools programs, in which musicians present music and information to students at all levels (kindergarten through college). We offer programs in American social history, women in blues, language arts, conflict avoidance, storytelling and even math. We also donate Blues-related materials (books, videos and CDs) to public libraries and offer educational programs in conjunction with those donations. We similarly work with other nonprofits, such as The Blues Foundation, Swallow Hill Music Association, The Colorado Music Hall of Fame, Blue Star Connection and The Colorado Music Business Organization.
Our members number approximately 600. Some are professional musicians; most are fans of the music and embrace the art and literature of the Blues culture. We publish a bi-monthly newsletter, The Holler, and a weekly email blast, The Blues Update. The purpose of the newsletters, web site and social media platforms is to provide our members and the public information about Blues-related news and events in Colorado.
CBS created the John Alex-Mason Scholarship Fund to help send student-age musicians to workshops and seminars to further their Blues music education. We sponsor youth performances where young blues performers can be seen making music on the “Blues 101 Stage”. Here kids of all ages have the opportunity to learn about the music which is part of their national heritage and the basis for present-day popular music.
We honor those individuals who have made extraordinary contributions. Over time, CBS has honored Blues musicians and outstanding contributors with Lifetime Achievement Awards, Heritage Awards, In Memoriam or other special recognitions.
We work with local nonprofits, civic organizations and businesses to strengthen the awareness and appreciation of the Blues as an art form.
Date of most recent review by the Board of Directors: June 12, 2018The Colorado Blues Society believes that equal opportunity is important for the continuing success of our organization. In accordance with state, federal, and municipal laws, this organization intends to comply with these laws which preclude negative discrimination against any person or organization because of race, disability, color, creed, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, sex, transgender status, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, veteran status, political service, affiliation or any other protected classification. This policy applies to all activities of The Colorado Blues Society, including but not limited to employment, selection of volunteers, selection of recipients of its programs, grant- making, purchasing, and selecting vendors or consultants. The Colorado Blues Society defines "negative discrimination" to include (but not necessarily be limited to) denial of services, employment, or volunteer opportunities to any class of individuals in a manner that negatively restricts opportunities to that class of individuals.
| In 2013, The Blues Foundation presented the prestigious Keeping the Blues Alive award to The Colorado Blues Society for meritorious excellence in the Blues Society category. |  |
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