The partnership kicks off Kahan’s new tour
To celebrate Mental Health Awareness Month and the kick-off of his US leg of We’ll All Be Here Forever Tour this week, Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum singer-songwriter Noah Kahan and his mental health initiative The Busyhead Project reveal a full slate of various activations and partnerships during the sold-out tour and throughout the rest of 2024. Since launching last year, The Busyhead Project has already raised millions of dollars in pursuit of its ultimate goal to make mental healthcare accessible for all.
“May is mental health awareness month. While mental health challenges are a year-round challenge for so many, it is undoubtedly a good thing that we shed extra light on the mental health crisis for the month of May. I sometimes struggle with reconciling my passion and efforts to be someone that advocates for mental health with how shitty I feel most of the time. I am not always capable of practicing what I preach. I try to live in two places and hope that someday I can situate myself between them. Some days I hole myself in my room and binge eat or don’t eat and stare at my phone until there is nothing else but the light of the screen and how awful I feel,” Kahan shares. “Somedays I play a show in a sold-out arena and talk about how therapy saved my life. Both of these days might happen over the span of any week. I do not share this for sympathy or to be seen as vulnerable or brave. I share this because I want people to know, in this month especially, to remember it’s okay living in two places. It’s okay to be in a place of hurting, it’s okay to be depressed, anxious, bipolar, obsessive, or just plain exhausted. We must all remember to try and strive for the other place. The place of healing, forgiveness, and awareness. In this place, we open up to people about how we’re feeling, and we check in on how our friends are feeling too. In this other place we try and meditate, we try to heal ourselves with therapy or medication or a long walk through our neighborhoods. I hope that during this Mental Health Awareness Month, we all try our best to live in that other place.”
On each date of the We’ll All Be Here Forever Tour, Kahan will welcome fans to connect with local mental health organizations at The Busyhead Project Action Village. Visitors can learn more about organizations, share a positive message to The Busyhead Project Community Wall, and even prepare to vote with actions courtesy of HeadCount.
Kahan and The Busyhead Project have also cemented a new partnership with Backline, that’s near and dear to Kahan’s heart. Backline is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that connects music industry professionals and their families with mental health and wellness resources, to provide tour-wide mental health care from a licensed provider to the entire band and crew.
Sharing its name with his 2019 debut album, The Busyhead Project will continue to join forces with national and local organizations to increase mental health awareness, amplify discussion, and democratize resources.
