​​This holiday season, give the gifts that give back!

There are several ways to support Sweet Relief Musicians Fund this year, AND get an awesome gift for your loved ones. Shop through some of our incredible partners, whom support our mission when you make a purchase, or look through our online Merch shop for some #SweetSwag!

Find the full Holiday Gift Guide below!

DONATE TO WIN + SUPPORT SWEET RELIEF MUSICIANS FUND AS IT PROVIDES FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO MUSICIANS AND INDUSTRY WORKERS.

Billy Strings is building the future of folk, bluegrass, and rock with his virtuoso playing. You have the chance to win a one-of-a-kind collector’s item — a Fender acoustic guitar hand-signed by Billy. Your prize also comes with two passes to a Billy Strings non-festival show of your choice in 2022. Bring another fan or a special guest and turn them into a fan for life!

You’ll be jamming out to an essential cause — supporting musicians in need through the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund, providing financial assistance to the music community since 1994.

With your donation, you are entered to win:

• 🎸A beautiful Fender acoustic guitar signed by Billy Strings
• 🎫 Two (2) passes to a future 2022 show of your choice*

*Subject to which shows have available tickets & non festival shows

Your Holiday shopping starts here... Sweet Relief's star-studded Holiday Auction is now live!

Look through our incredible lineup of signed guitars, premium tickets, and more from #SweetSupporters Bruce Springsteen, Wilco, Elvis Costello, Bert Kreischer, Justin Moore, My Morning Jacket, Foreigner, Chris Thile, Toby Keith, Vince Gill, Amy Grant, Kristin Chenoweth, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Joan Baez, Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo, Chris Stapleton, and Peter Frampton!

Now live on Charitybuzz, more going live soon!

All proceeds benefit Sweet Relief and our mission to help musicians and music industry workers that have given us so much through music.

Want to own this beautiful guitar signed by "The Boss" himself, AND support Sweet Relief? Well now you can!

Bruce Springsteen hand-signed this amazing 1952 Fender Telecaster Reissue guitar, and it is currently up for auction on our Charitybuzz page. Proceeds from this auction will go towards our COVID-19 Fund which pays for medical expenses, lodging, clothing, food and other vital living expenses to those impacted due to sickness or loss of work. If you're interested in learning more, donating, or applying for assistance, please visit www.sweetrelief.org/covid-19-fund​

Bruce Springsteen began his career by playing the bar circuit in New Jersey while assembling his famous E Street Band. His breakout 1975 record, Born to Run, united arena rock with human-size tales of working-class America. With dozens of awards under his belt, including 20 Grammys, and more than 65 million albums sold in the U.S. alone, Springsteen is one of the most successful musicians of all time. Also known for his political causes, the artist was honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama in 2016. His latest book, Renegades Born in the USA is available now.

​LIVE on Friday 8/27 @ 4 PM PST— Sip back and relax with a glass of creamy and delish Butter Chardonnay and tune into #JaMHappyHour on Facebook Live or YouTube for JaMHappyHour with JaM Cellars, benefiting Sweet Relief. GRAMMY winning singer-songwriter Lisa Loeb will be LIVE for an hour of sips, laughs, and incredible music! Delicious wines, great tunes, and doing good for musicians? Now that’s music to our ears!

JaM Cellars has committed $25,000 through 2021 by donating $1 for each click, like and share made during JaMHappyHour benefiting Sweet Relief, up to $2,500 per show. Since December of 2020, they’ve raised $23,146 and have hosted an array of remarkable artists, including Surfer Blood, Rob Machado & Iron Sage Wood, G. Love, and Cassadee Pope. Monthly, on every final Friday, we’ll be sipping delish wines and JaMming for a good cause with an extra special guest artist. Check out the virtual live music calendar for upcoming shows and join us for cheers & applause!

Bid to win 2 tickets on the day of your choice, October 28, 30 or 31st, to see GRAMMY Award-winner, Golden Globe Award-winner and Academy Award-winner superstar entertainer Lady Gaga’s Las Vegas Residency at Park Theater inside Park MGM!
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Don't miss LADY GAGA JAZZ & PIANO, where she will perform stripped-down versions of her hits alongside music from the Great American Songbook.

Bid on your chance to win 2 great seats (tickets) in the second row, right center section, to see the legendary Tedeschi Trucks Band at a sold-out show on December 4th, 2021, at the Orpheum Theater in Boston as part of their annual year-end Boston residency shows, plus an autographed event poster (specially designed for the Boston show)!

Led by “two of the best roots rock musicians of their generation,” slide guitar virtuoso Derek Trucks and blues guitarist/songstress Susan Tedeschi, this 12-piece juggernaut has quickly become well known for their legendary live performances. Rarely repeating a set list, this incredibly talented ensemble possesses the unleashed freedom to explore any musical territory – from their own vast catalog of originals to covers of rock royalty.
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Don’t miss your opportunity to be part of the tradition!

The limited-edition Billie Eilish x Soundwaves Art collection is finally here!

We are so excited to announce this awesome artwork collaboration between Billie Eilish x Soundwaves Art! They worked together to create artwork from the sound waves of three of her biggest hits. Billie hand-signed a few pieces this past August to raise money for Sweet Relief and there’s something for everyone. Soundwaves is also auctioning off the signed original art made from “everything i wanted” and “Therefore I Am” for the superfans. Want your Billie piece right away? Get one of our first-edition unsigned prints - only 500 made for each song! Feeling lucky? Enter our sweepstakes for a signed “Your Power” artwork.

Here’s how to enter:

Buy an unsigned Billie Eilish print

Purchase sweepstakes entries on our website

Mail-in a postcard

For more info, click below!

​NOW LIVE! We have some incredible signed guitars up on our Charitybuzz Auction page, all supporting our COVID-19 Fund which helps musicians and crew who have been impacted due to music industry shutdowns.

Head to the link below to bid on-

- James Taylor signed Fender Acoustic

- Slash signed Epiphone Rosso Corsa Les Paul Guitar

- Pearl Jam signed Fender Telecaster Guitar

- George Strait signed Fender Acoustic Guitar

- Duran Duran signed Fender Telecaster Guitar

- Joe Bonamassa signed Epiphone "Black Beauty" Les Paul Custom Guitar

- John Mellencamp signed Fender Acoustic Guitar

- MORE COMING SOON!

US based music charity Sweet Relief are to benefit from an agreement with Aurovine to benefit from an influx of digital currency Audiocoin to help their members affected by the Covid 19 pandemic.

​As well as a substantial donation of ADC, Sweet Relief will also benefit from a donated staking node as the currency upgrades its codebase to make use of the Delegated chains (DPOS) provided by Blockpool.
What this means in reality is that Sweet Relief will benefit from a regular supply of newly forged coins that can be converted into tangible funds for their members. Sweet Relief’s Forging Node is already active and can be seen in action on the Blockpool blockchain.

​Los Angeles (August 2021): Gritty In Pink will conclude their virtual summer tour in LA on Tuesday, August 31 at 6PM PT  Instagram live (@grittyinpinklife). The LA roster includes Eva Gardner, singer/songwriter and esteemed bassist for P!nk, Jayelle, alt-pop chanteuse, Leah-Martin Brown, hard rocker fresh off a year recording in Sweden, Madeline Rosene, emo rock songstress, emerging pop starlet Marlhy, influential singer Rachel Lorin and Gritty newcomer Shanice Antonia. Hosted by Shiragirl along with special guests Alex Nicole Windsor (Shiragirl) and Alexa Rae.
 
The tour is sponsored by Mackie, Guitar Girl Magazine, Owl’s Brew, Pitfire Pizza and during each livestream, viewers can participate by donating to the live fundraiser for the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund. If you aren't able to donate during the livestreams you can support the fund by purchasing merchandise on the Sweet Relief website at  www.sweetrelief.org. All proceeds donated to the fund will help musicians and music professionals affected by COVID-19 or other financial related issues such as illnesses, disabilities, shelter, rent etc.

​August 26, 2021 – Los Angeles, CA

Spanning across nearly 50 cities, including thousands of artist entries ranging from rock, country, hip hop, folk, EDM and more, iHeartRadio is proud to announce and congratulate the winner of the 2021 Jack Daniel’s Battle of the Bar Bands – Josh Scott of Josh Scott Music from Phoenix, Arizona. Josh Scott is a born and raised Arizona singer/songwriter and his winning song was titled “That Bottle.”

The national campaign made possible by Jack Daniel’s also raised more than $50,000 to support Sweet Relief Musicians Fund, a nonprofit organization that provides emergency financial support to the music community, including music industry professionals who are struggling to make ends meet due to COVID-19, illness, disability or age-related problems.
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“The pandemic has been especially challenging for music industry professionals, and we’re proud to have an opportunity to celebrate the local artists and bands who contribute to iHeartRadio’s commitment to the community,” says Adam Colbert, Senior Vice President, Total Beverage Alcohol, iHeartMedia. “We’re excited to celebrate Jack Daniels continuing support of local artists across the country, and to Sweet Relief Musicians Fund for being a safety net for music industry professionals overall.”

​Adrian Young of No Doubt is teaming up with Propeller and Sweet Relief to help out and lend a hand to all types of career musicians who are struggling to make ends meet. Take action and you’ll be entered for a chance to spend 40 mins virtually with Adrian himself - but that’s not all! There’s a bunch of legendary merch, vinyl, and pieces of Adrian Young history up for auction with all proceeds going to Sweet Relief.

Nate Cook's GXAX Ride from NYC to LA is coming to a close! Come watch The Yawpers first full band show of 2021, this September at Jam In the Van HQ in Los Angeles. Help us celebrate with Nate as he crosses the finish line!

GXAX is a long-distance charity ride founded by The Yawpers' frontman Nate Cook when the pandemic obliterated the music industry in early 2020. For his sophomore effort, Cook has once again team up with Sweet Relief Musicians Fund with the goal of surpassing last year's total of nearly $17,000 raised in two short weeks.

The second annual event, "Go West, Aging Man," embarked on the 4th of July in New York, New York and will span 3,600 miles across 8 weeks before crossing the finish line in Los Angeles.

While the world is starting to return to something approximating normalcy, musicians are still reeling from a devastating year. And with the threat of the new variant growing substantially, The far-reaching and industry spanning campaign hopes to rise to the challenge that the extended pandemic presents for the music community at large.

GXAX aims to rally fans to the banner of the indie music community through biking, music, and a little bit of insanity. ​

​Musician and sound engineer, Matthew Troy Scoggins, passed away suddenly in March of this year. He was 41.

Matt was born to live and breathe music! It was his passion, his hobby, his work...his entire life!  It made him deliriously happy and truly fulfilled!  His career took him on tour to every US state, most European countries, Japan, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico and Canada.  He always said he was "so blessed!"

Learn more, and please consider supporting, below.

Available TODAY at Silver City Brewery & Taproom! Crosby Hop Farm, MxPx, and Silver City teamed up to create Rock On Crafted Lager™ to support Sweet Relief and our mission to help musicians and music industry workers in need.

Available exclusively in their Taproom and Restaurant while supplies last!

​Gritty In Pink has kicked off their second edition of their Gritty Rocks Live (GRL) Tour this summer, highlighting artists in New York, Nashville, Chicago and Los Angeles. Fresh off the success of their LA return to the live stage after 16 months, Gritty In Pink is shifting gears and heading back on the (virtual) road for summer 2021! Tune in for stop two, CHICAGO!! This Tuesday, August 3rd, 6PM PT/9PM ET via Gritty In Pink’s Instagram (@grittyinpinklife)!

Musician, gamer, and supporter of Sweet Relief Musicians Fund, Jonathan aka ceecide evolved a fun idea with friends, into a digital festival build for charity … and he is not stopping at just one event!

We at Sweet Relief, had the opportunity to digitally “sit down” with ceecide and chat about this original idea, how it came to be, and upcoming projects in the queue.

Read ceecide’s Q & A below.

SR: How did you first hear about Sweet Relief? Are you a musician yourself?

CC: Yeah, I am a musician myself, I've been creating and working on various projects for about 4 years now and having just released a new song called "GODS"! I heard about Sweet Relief Musicians Fund after my team and I realized the help that we could provide to people, so we started researching charities and when we found Sweet Relief and how they helped artists during these times, I knew right away that I wanted to support them.

The console also features a custom caddy designed to hold three bottles of Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey, an upholstered drink mat and glassware storage that serves as a stylish drink preparation area and a custom engraved Jack Daniel’s turntable platter. Additional custom finishes and engraving complete this collectible piece built for listening and enjoyment, with your favorite record on, and a drink in hand.

​To further support the cause, Wrensilva handbuilt six more of these limited edition consoles for top music artists including Zedd, Ashley McBryde, K. Michelle and De La Ghetto — each who received a Jack Daniel’s® x Wrensilva® Record Console of their very own. From July 6 - 22, you too have the chance to bid on this collectible record console through Charitybuzz.

Handbuilt with authentic aged Jack Daniel’s barrel staves, the Jack Daniel’s® x Wrensilva® console honors the traditions of craft and character that create timeless products. With massive sound and premium audio performance, Wrensilva’s M1 Console — the brand’s most powerful and luxurious model — has been reimagined with a sleek black exterior shell, interior and deck in perfect harmony with Jack Daniel’s-inspired details throughout.

This console will be available only through the Charitybuzz auction to support Sweet Relief Musicians Fund. Visit the online auction to learn more and place your bid for a chance to take home this special limited edition piece.