Proceeds benefit Music Health Alliance
Julien’s Auctions has announced the third annual online charity auction event Handwritten Song Lyrics Benefitting Music Health Alliance to take place exclusively online for advance bidding. The auction will open on Saturday, October 1st and start closing in real time and in lot order for live bidding on Monday, October 24th at 11 am PT. Proceeds will benefit Music Health Alliance, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that provides 100% free advocacy, support, and access to life-saving healthcare and financial resources for the music industry.
For the third consecutive year, the auction house to the stars partnered with a marquee lineup of some of the most legendary singers and songwriters from the 1970s through today, spanning country, pop, rock, gospel, folk, and alternative rock music, who personally donated handwritten lyrics of some of their biggest hits to this critical initiative to aid and support underserved music professionals in their time of need.
Among the highlights are lyrics to Kelsea Ballerini’s “Peter Pan” written on an Epiphone acoustic guitar, Train’s “Drops of Jupiter” written on a stage-played Remo Emperor drumhead by frontman Pat Monahan and signed by all members, ZZ Top’s “Sharp Dressed Man,” Jason Aldean and Carrie Underwood’s “If I Didn’t Love You,” Kenny Rogers’ “Twenty Years Ago,” Peter Frampton’s “Do You Feel Like I Do,” Martina McBride’s “Concrete Angel,” Blake Shelton’s “God’s Country,” and Walker Hayes’ “Fancy Like.”
Michael Martin Murphey, Reba McEntire, Florida Georgia Line, Little Big Town, Loudon Wainwright, George Strait, Vince Gill, Miranda Lambert, Dierks Bentley, Amy Grant, and more offer handwritten lyrics of their biggest Hits to support the music community.
Registration is required to bid and can be done online before the sale at the JuliensLive.com. Bidding starts Monday, October 1st at 11 am PT.
Founded in 2013 and based in Nashville, Music Health Alliance (MHA) has provided free healthcare advocacy and lifesaving support and resources to more than 18,000 music industry members across 49 states in the non-profit’s first nine years. MHA has supported songwriters, musicians, performers, producers, engineers, venue operators, artist managers, agents, publishers, business managers, and more by providing access to medicine, mental health resources, COVID-19 relief, diagnostic tests, lifesaving transplants, end of life care, and many other necessary services, saving more than $85,000,000 in healthcare costs for the nationwide music community in less than a decade. Entirely funded through grants and individual and corporate donations, financial support from the music community is critical to continue MHA’s advocacy and free services. For every $1 donation, MHA is able to provide $30 in life-saving healthcare resources to Heal The Music. MHA fights so those in our industry never have to feel alone in a health crisis and removes obstacles so patients can receive lifesaving care.
All MHA services are free to any person who has worked in the music industry for three or more years or who has credited contributions to four commercially released recordings or videos. Spouses, partners, and children of qualifying individuals may also receive access to the non-profit’s services from birth to end of life.
