Pat "Mother
Blues" Cohen, a Music Maker Relief Foundation partner artist sings
weekly outside of a nursing home that's had an outbreak of COVID, where her
brother lives. Pat's is a powerful story of artist giving back the way they can,
even while the artist herself, with cancelled shows, little money, little
digital literacy, and underlying health problems, is at a disadvantage. This is
true of so most of the MMRF partner artists, primarily older black musicians.
Pat had to leave New Orleans after Katrina flooded her house and was set to
make a major comeback there with a slot at New Orleans Jazz & Heritage
Fest, which is obviously not happening now. She lives outside of Charlotte, NC these
days. Following are pieces from PBS NewsHour, CNN, and Rolling Stone.com on Pat, as
well as her compatriots Sam Frazier, Jr. of Birmingham, AL, Ironing Board Sam
(also formerly from NOLA) of Montgomery, AL, and New Orleans' Alabama Slim, and
how Music Maker works closely with each them. Goes without saying that the
music is also killer. Frazier is
supposed to get a kidney replacement soon and Slim has had an album put off due
to the crisis.
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