By: Christina Cooke Back when she dealt blackjack and performed the blues in Atlantic City, a music promoter named Peachy Lee assigned Pat Cohen the nickname “Mother Blues” in the advertising one of her shows. The name stuck with her through her long career as a blues singer in New Orleans and, since Hurricane Katrina, […]

I recently had the immense honor of traveling to Lugano Switzerland to the Blues to Bop festival with the Glorifying Vines Sisters. The trip was life changing for everyone involved, particularly the audiences that got to experience the incredibly unique vocal stylings of the Vines Sisters. The thousands of people that got to witness the […]

 The Musician Sustenance Program was the first program established by MMRF in 1994 and is designed to help musicians in crisis and to ease the chronic poverty endured by many of America’s senior musicians. Music Maker’s first experience with helping the victims of large scale natural disasters came in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005, […]

Blues Came to Georgia by Rufus McKenzie Rufus McKenzie brings you straight to the truth. His songs weave together vivid life experiences that use melody as the ultimate teacher. His wisdom stems long before him, and he credits his mother with giving him the foundation. In “Mother Sleep On,” Rufus reminisces on a walk he […]

Partner artists Sam Frazier, Jr. and Ardie Dean will be inducted into the 2017 Alabama Blues Hall of Fame on September 23rd. The annual event will be hosted by Jim Newport at the Drish House located at: 2300 17th St., Tuscaloosa, AL 35401. Music Maker is proud to call both of these amazing artists partners. […]