007 - Support Asheville Musiciains Who Are Supporting Asheville

Good morning, Asheville. Today is Tuesday, October 29th. We're in the high 40s and almost low 50s at the time of recording. Looking like there might be for like 1% of Asheville a little bit of rain in the afternoon, but otherwise you got a perfectly fall, fall day with some gray clouds in the sky. I imagine the sun will poke through for about as long as it rains in places. Alas. Happy Tuesday. Today, looking at music, musical artists, local, I mean, business owners that, you know, they're making their money by playing music. I think I would love to hear more from you, from the community, on how musicians have been affected. What I'll say is that, you know, two big musical things have happened in the last week or so. One, you have a gigantic gargantuan concert with Zach. Oh, man, there's so many. What are their names? In. In Charlotte, raised $24 million or so. Luke Bryant, not Luke Bryan, Luke Owen, Luke. Of course, I'm missing it right now, but $24 million already missed that. Can't go to that, and hard to get to generally. But the money goes to support Western North Carolina, which is a beautiful thing, and I'm. I love that. The other big musical, I guess, fundraiser, right, that I've seen and that I'm impressed by is this Cardinals at the Window, a benefit for flood relief in western North Carolina. Beautiful album art. Looks like it's stitched. Cross stitched, I think might is the official term. And it's a compilation album from over 130 musicians, friends of the podcast, recorded with Tyler Ramsey Music, his track that is on the. On the album, on the compilation. I think that this represents one of the coolest collective efforts by a community around. I don't know the numbers on it. I don't know what they've raised. I'm not sure if I can back into that. I'm going to try, but this is just like the beginning of the music angle. I think I want to talk about the. The business of being an artist in Asheville, the changes that they're going to experience, that artists are going to experience, whether it's music, painting, clay, woodwork, a lot. A lot of changes in the wake of a catastrophic hurricane. So hopeful for the region, excited by this compilation. And I want to point out, you know, a single new artist in my world. And I say this knowing that John Charles Dwyer just left Asheville, like the week before Helene happened to move to Philly, but the work that he's been doing to send money back to Asheville is really beautiful. I just found him last night and found this song. Oh, man, is it heavy feathers. I will put it in the show notes. I feel like one of the verses almost made me cry. I think, like, it's just so. Perhaps apropos is the word. It just seemed like he wrote it. Or at least I've found YouTube videos of it from four or more years ago. So it's not, like, written about Helene, but, man, oh, man, I first saw it. I'm gonna try and find the Instagram post as well. First saw it on a drone video of the River Arts. There was a song playing in the background that was just haunting and beautiful and sounded, you know, Appalachian. And then click through, click through, Find a thing, follow the thing. Click on the thing, find, go follow the band. Camp, go to YouTube. And the song is just beautiful. Artist is great, and, you know, he's. He's doing great work to support the region. So shout out to John Charles Dwyer, who I just literally heard about last night, who is also on the Cardinals at the Window compilation. So is Tyler Ramsey music. His session was recorded at Parkway Studios with some of the folks, John Dupree and company from Parkway Studios. And then, you know, Big Music is also supporting. So leave it to the artists to do beautiful collaborative work when people need it the most. If you have stories about artists, if you have questions about being an artist in a post, Helene Asheville would love to hear them, Would love to share some of your insights, some of your stories. So reach out at hello@makingitinasheville.com and until tomorrow, take care and be good to people.