Robert Finley’s talent is undeniable. Music Maker founder Tim Duffy knew this the second he spotted him playing on the street at the King Biscuit Blues Festival. After working to address some of Robert’s basic needs like getting him new teeth and housing, we set him up with his NYC debut at Webster Hall with the Music […]

St. Louis, M.O., October 12th, 2018 – Timothy Duffy has been photographing musicians in the South for thirty-five years and is the founder of the Music Maker Relief Foundation, a nonprofit organization based in Hillsborough, N.C. that helps elderly musicians meet their basic needs so that they can share their music with the world. The […]

Over the past three years Music Maker has been forging a partnership with the famed Telluride Blues & Brews Festival and for this year’s festival we pulled out all the stops. We set a goal to raise $30,000 with a special benefit dinner/recording session that was held at Studio in the Clouds right outside of […]

For over a decade now Music Maker has been partnered with the Roots N Blues N BBQ Festival in Columbia, MO which has featured many iterations of the Music Maker Blues Revue on it’s main stage, wowing audiences and providing an experience with artists that are the bedrock of American music. In addition to the […]

One Man Band by Adolphus Bell Nobody knew the blues quite like Adolphus Bell. When Music Maker founder Tim Duffy first me Adolphus he was going town to town scraping up gigs while living in his van. Adolphus was known for his raucous One Man band show and always kept the energy high and was […]