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Music Maker Success in 2012
is because of you!
Capt. Luke and Tom Ciaburri

We want to thank you so much for your support of Music Maker during
2012.
Because of supporters like you, artists such as Captain Luke and Adolphus Bell were able to
receive monthly stipends to assist with their living expenses.
Ironing Board Sam released
another album and headed to the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival,
earning him the Living Blues Comeback Artist of the Year. Precious Bryant was given a
chance to live out her elder years in safety, when you teamed up with us to get
her a new mobile home.

With your continued
support, we can continue to do all this and much more in 2013.

For this, all of us – artists, members, fans and staff – thank
you.
Happy New Year from all of us!

Leyla’s
Kicksta
rter Ends Today!

Leyla McCalla

Music Maker Next Generation Artist Leyla McCalla has been
workin
g hard to make her first album,
Vari
-Colored Strings, a reality, and has been
promoting a Kickstarter campaign for the past month that will help her complete
the project.

The Kickstarter ends this morning shortly before
10am, and she is just shy of $20,000!
If you’d like to help Leyla not
only produce a wonderful piece of work, but publicize it and promote it in the
coming year, please visit her
Kickstarter
– before it’s too
late!

Diggin: How
Lucky Can One Man Be

Big Ron Jimmy Williams This weeks’ free track is Big Ron’s “How Lucky Can One Man
Be.”
Aaron gives his take on it in this weeks’ Diggin – and concludes
that Ron is not actually singing this love song to him.

Check out the Diggin and the
track here!

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Ben Payton
Photo of the Week by Aaron
Greenhood

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able to preserve Southern Roots music, assist elderly artists, and share the
music of America with the world.
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Upcoming Shows: Click here for more info on upcoming
events
 

12/27 – Beverly “Guitar” Watkins – Steve’s Live Music, Sandy Springs,
GA
12/27 – Ironing Board Sam – The Crunkleton, Chapel Hill, NC
12/31 –
Beverly “Guitar” Watkins – Fatt Matt’s Rib Shack, Atlanta, GA
12/31 – Cool
John Ferguson – First Night, Raleigh, NC
1/04 – Boo Hanks – The Eddy Pub,
Saxapahaw, NC
1/05 – Ironing Board Sam – G2B Gastropub, Durham, NC
1/13 –
Ironing Board Sam – NC Museum of History, Raleigh, NC
1/18 – Big Ron Hunter –
The Depot, Hillsborough, NC
1/26 – Shelton Powe – NC Museum of History,
Raleigh, NC
2/01 – Ironing Board Sam – The Eddy Pub, Saxapahaw, NC
2/15 –
Ironing Board Sam – The Depot, Hillsborough, NC
3/18 – Ironing Board Sam –
The Depot, Hillsborough, NC
3/18 – Ironing Board Sam – Havelock Tourist and
Event Center, Havelock, NC
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Maker Relief Foundation, Inc. helps the true pioneers and forgotten heroes of
Southern music gain 
recognition
and meet their day to day needs. We present these musica
l
traditions to the world so American culture will flourish and be preserved for
future generations.