The CD
Exclusive new tracks by Bruce Springsteen & Pete Seeger, Jon Bon Jovi, Madeleine Peyroux, Bonnie Raitt, Mario Frangoulis, Keb' Mo', Michelle Shocked, Buffalo Tom,
Natalie Merchant, Mighty Sam McClain, Sweet Honey in the Rock, in collaboration with currently or formerly homeless musicians on benefit CD to fight homelessness!
Who's involved in CD
The CD project, is an eclectic collaboration involving homeless musicians and celebrity artists (such as singers Bruce Springsteen, Natalie Merchant, Jon Bon Jovi, Bonnie Raitt, Keb' Mo', Dan Zanes, Jewel, Pete Seeger, actor Danny Glover, Madeleine Peyroux, Buffalo Tom, Sweet Honey in the Rock, John Sebastian, Jewel, Sonya Kitchell, Michelle Shocked, Mario Frangoulis, Mighty Sam McClain and actor Tim Robbins) produced and released by Appleseed Recordings.
The CD project represents a partnership between the McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies, the University of Massachusetts
Boston, Appleseed Recordings, along with assistance in year one
from Berklee College of Music Internship Program. Over the past year project staff and volunteers have collected demo recordings from homeless
artists across through country culled for artists we feel represent the quality for which we strive. In
addition GUYP works with 25+ homeless advocacy/service programs across the country (see our partners list under About Us).
These and other local and national homeless organizations will be able to sell the CD to
raise funds and awareness to their organization.
The Mission of the CD
Through the emotive and transforming power of music we aim to breakdown the disconnect between housed and homeless human beings-as exemplified in the CD and some collaboration tracks between homeless and celebrity artists.
In the 2 years before release, we have collected performance demos from a number of homeless men, women, and children that are singers, instrumentalists and songwriters in the hopes of selecting the best to include on the CD and in utilizing their talents for possible collaboration tracks with a celebrity musician. This recording is done thanks to a generous donation of portable recording equipment by Roland Corporation. We have met some incredibly talented homeless musicians from across the U.S.
Who Benefits from the CD
Proceeds from the CD will go towards the national awareness/action campaign to end homelessness, Give US Your Poor, an initiative of the Univeristy of Massachusetts Boston. Give US Your Poor's fiscal agent is the University of Massachusetts Foundation, Inc., a 501(c)3 non profit organization. In addition, local and national homeless organizations will be able to sell the CD to raise funds and awareness to their organization. Homeless artists involved will receive direct payment, all travel costs, and mechanical royalties for any original music.
If you are a homeless service/advocacy organizaton, click here to order CDs at cost.
