*(LOS ANGELES) For many years, the custom of the Labor Day Rally was to observe the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon on TV and listen to tales of how he stayed up all evening in an effort to lift cash for a worthy trigger. Whereas that custom died way back, there are nonetheless folks with wants together with excessive profilers like Rachelle Ferrell, the wildly in style jazz singer.
An internet telethon-type program premieres Labor Day, Monday, September 4, 2023, at 11 AM PST on YouTube.com/EricJChambers (or watch it above). The video, produced by Ferrell’s longtime buddy, Eric J. Chambers of The CUT Community, encompasses a never-before-seen mini-documentary profile of the gifted singer.
Due to medical, bodily, and private causes, she has been unable to tour like most of her jazz mates. Consequently, she is financially going via a difficult time.
To assist help her on this time of want, Candy Aid Musicians Fund, an Orange County, California-based nonprofit that assists musicians and others within the leisure trade throughout tough patches of their careers has stepped as much as assist. To contribute, go to SweetRelief.org/RachelleFerrellFund. Or you might assist by cellphone by calling 949-215-9620.
Invoice Bennett, the president of Candy Aid, advised Chambers of The CUT Chronicles video present, that the marketing campaign for Ferrell has gotten off to a superb begin.
“We assist musicians who’re struggling as a result of sickness, incapacity, or age-related points. Typically the difficulty is greater than what we may do with writing a grant examine. So, we created a fund for Rachelle to assist her proper now.”
Chambers, who has recognized Ferrell for 30 years, relationship again to 1993, was moved after seeing the monetary enchantment on Fb. It was then, he determined to create his personal Labor Day YouTube-A-Thon (Labor Day Rally for Rachelle Ferrell) to assist his buddy.
“From the second I heard her music in 1992, till now, I’ve been an enormous fan of Rachelle’s. Not simply the singer, however the particular person,” says the veteran TV and radio speak present host. “I’m hopeful her followers and buddies will rally behind this marketing campaign to
assist her on this time of want and speed up her return to touring. That is additionally a option to give her flowers whereas she will be able to admire and odor them.”
A Berklee Faculty of Music legend, Ferrell first got here into prominence on the music scene in 1992 and has obtained worldwide popularity of her six-and-a-half octave vocal expertise. She has labored with a number of the greats together with the late George Duke, Lou Rawls, Anita Baker, Lalah Hathaway, and Will Downing to call a couple of.
Candy Aid Musicians Fund was based in 1994 by a musician named Victoria Williams. Whereas on the street opening for Neil Younger, she discovered she had A number of Sclerosis.
“She additionally didn’t have medical insurance, which was quite common earlier than Obamacare,” explains Bennett. “A bunch of her buddies obtained collectively and did a tribute album known as “Candy Aid” which was an amazing monetary success,” he stated in his Brea, CA workplace.
Slightly than maintaining all the cash, Williams launched the Candy Aid Musicians Fund which assists fellow musicians and behind-the-scenes folks in want. Tune in to the (Labor Day Rally for Rachelle Ferrell) video for extra particulars.
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