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Make a difference while holiday shopping.
Want to make every purchase count? Go to Amazon Smile to register the Jeremy Wilson Foundation as your charity of choice. Then a percentage of everything you spend on Amazon Smile will come right back to your community to help local musicians. It’s easy, convenient – and no extra cost to you. Thanks for signing up today!
Blues Fest Cares Concert to benefit the JWF - last remaining tickets!
The last remaining tickets are available at jwfmusic.org/music for this exciting concert, featuring Portland’s own Curtis Salgado. The show begins at 7 p.m., Thursday, July 1. And if you can’t join us in person, you can watch an hour of the show live on KOIN 6 TV starting at 7 p.m.
Seann McKeel - Artist Relief Campaign Photo Montage narrated by Carson Ellis.
In spring of 2020, Seann McKeel was diagnosed with HER-2 Positive breast cancer, an aggressive form of cancer.
In collaboration with Seann's family and friends, the Jeremy Wilson Foundation (JWF) initiated this fundraiser to assist Seann with her insurance deductible, premiums, and other out-of-pocket expenses in 2021. Please send a little money her way if you can spare it. She'll be very grateful for any help.
Musicians In Solidarity
When the music stopped, Sarah Clarke got started
Most of us view March of 2020 as a stopping point, or at best, an extended pause in life’s normal routine. But Sarah Clarke saw the abrupt halt of gigs and tours as an opening to focus on the issue she most cares about: social justice.
AstronautSaint steps up for local musicians
Love the idea of a family following their dreams -- to start a record store -- just before Covid shut everything down, but persevered by starting an on-line business?
The Lowenstein Trust proudly announces 2020 Award Winner Jeremy Wilson
The Lowenstein Trust proudly announces 2020 Award Winner JEREMY WILSON for his work with the Jeremy Wilson Foundation to assist musicians in need
The JWF Portrait Project: Shining light on musicians during the darkest year
Maybe it takes a crisis for little miracles to happen. Or perhaps things just seem more miraculous when set against a backdrop of hard times and uncertainty.
Free Musician Health Screening - Act Now
Beginning November 16th, MusiCares will provide virtual health screenings at no charge to qualified music industry professionals.
Making His Music Work for the Community
“When catastrophic things happen, people re-establish, creating new and smaller communities from the ground up.”
Kory sees himself and the JWF as helping forge the local re-emergence of a healthy community.
“Because what keeps everybody together is live music.”
JWF BLM Solidarity + Commitment Statement
The Jeremy Wilson Foundation (JWF) stands in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and calls for justice in the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Quanice Hayes, Patrick Kimmons, Keaton Otis, Kendra James, Terrell Johnson, Andre Gladen, and countless others.