Thousands of Musicians Need Your Help

Your Donations Will

• assist career musicians who are experiencing illness, disability or age-related problems.
• provide financial relief for medical costs, food, shelter, bills and vital personal expenses.
• be distributed to help musicians, singers, composers and arrangers throughout the United States.
• help artists within all musical genres including rock, pop, jazz, blues, country, classical, reggae, punk, indie and more.

Ways to donate include

• Individual donations
• Recurring donations
• Planned giving
• Fundraisers
• Sponsorships

Over the years many Artists and friends have volunteered their time, talents and services to aid Sweet Relief.  Here are some of the ways you can help:

Musicians

• Donate specific proceeds from a tour or individual event or merchandise
• Include the Sweet Relief logo on your merchandise and releases
• Coordinate a Sweet Relief Benefit Concert

Everyone

• Donate goods and services
• Bid at our online auctions
• Link your website to ours
• Spread the word among your friends
• Support our sponsors

Tell us how you can help.

“…Sweet Relief Musicians Trust is not just a 'good cause,' it's a necessity. The high cost of health insurance is more than just a headache -- for some, it is an impossibility. As musicians, we make next to nothing and the money we do earn tends to go to the immediate necessities: food, rent, van maintenance etc. It's easy to avoid health insurance until it's too late! You're stuck with 9 lives worth of bills for impossibly huge amounts of money. Victoria is dealing with this first hand, but instead of taking care of herself, she's seeing to the care of musicians in the future that they not have to face the health care nightmare penniless. That's beautiful -- and so is her music." – Shudder To Think

“I’m just glad that Sweet Relief is there to help people like Vic (Chesnutt) and Victoria (Williams). Kudos to whomever came up with the idea of musicians supporting other musicians.” – Michael Stipe

“Sweet Relief is important to me because I hate to see all these musicians that don’t have enough money for health insurance. If your health is taken away from you, if you lost the ability to play, it can be really devastating. Because, I know for myself, and a lot of other people, that playing is really kind of what makes you feel like you’re worth something, so if that gets taken away, itr can be real devastating. So you gotta look after your own, in a way.” – Dave Pirner (Soul Asylum)

“Music can heal people, its been proven.” – Vic Chessnut

“What I enjoy about this wholeorganization is just for people to be able to give, it makes people feel so good to give and it just grows like that, everybody pitching in. Sweet Relief is an example of musicians reaching out to care for their own in a way that the rest of society is going to have to learn to do.” – Victoria Williams.