How Sustain is Helping during the Pandemic

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What is Sustain doing in response to Coronavirus?

Coronavirus is impacting the musicians we work with hard. Months of shows and income have been cancelled. We are working with our partner musicians to pay them now for future shows. We are seeking out funding so that we can book more shows in the future, as well as commission nature-inspired songs.

We started the Backyard Songscape contest, as a way to pay musicians now for a future show in Colorado.

Harrison is helping our Northern Colorado music community by working with Fort Collins Musicians Association to put on a summer series of concerts at the local Drive-In Movie Theater. This event will help support around 100 musicians throughout the course of the summer, and make live music possible!

When our summer Sagebrush Session outdoor concerts start up in June, we will adhere to social distancing for our audience members and state health guidelines.

We cancelled our Sagebrush Session Lineup Reveal party at The Mishawaka, originally set for May 9.

We’re running Sustain from home along with our redbone coonhound pup.

We are offering free hand sewn face masks to anyone who joins our monthly giving program, Sustainers. Hamilton's King George (Euan Morton) was our first!


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Reschedule: Sagebrush Session Lineup Reveal now MAY 9

In light of CDC’s recommendations, we are postponing the Sagebrush Session Lineup Reveal Party. Originally scheduled for April 11th, it has been pushed back to May 9. All other details remain the same.

Already purchased your ticket? It has automatically been updated and is valid for May 9.

Purchased a ticket, but May 9 doesn’t work for you? Contact betsy@sustainmusicandnature.org and I’ll get you a refund!

In the event that gatherings are still discouraged in May, we will be able to issue refunds, or you can convert your ticket purchase into a donation for Sustain.

Thanks for you understanding in these tricky times!

Say Hello at the North American Wildlife Conference!

We’re going to Omaha!

Sustain’s Co-Founders are headed to the continent’s biggest gathering of wildlife conservation professionals, representing public land agencies and conservation nonprofits from all over. We’re excited to show folks how Sustain helps make public lands and conservation relevant to everyone, using music!

If you’re going, please say hello. We’re friendly :)

We got a grant!

Sustain got a Colorado Creates grant!

We’re thrilled to receive a grant from Colorado’s Office of Economic Development and International Trade! The “Colorado Creates” grant will help support Sustain’s programming in Colorado.

Also, wouldn’t it be cool if every state dedicated resources like this to arts?

Colorado Creative Industries believes in the power of creativity to inspire human connections, create social change and support economic vibrancy throughout Colorado. We believe in the practice of creation, the artists and entrepreneurs who contribute to our rich culture and the benefits of our creative economy.

We support and encourage the innovators, creators, change-makers and dreamers who improve our quality of life and make Colorado creative. We focus on strengthening the vitality of visual, performing and literary arts through promotion, resources and funding opportunities. We believe in bold innovation and the invaluable contributions the arts bring to this beautiful state.

Our most humble thank you for the grant and to the legislators that support funding for arts organizations! Woo hoo!

Sagebrush Session: Courtney Hartman & Covenhoven

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For our second hike & concert date, we’ve got Courtney Hartman (poor thing was sick last time) and Covenhoven! Courtney is a grammy-nominated, champion guitar player and Covenhoven hails from Denver, crafting moving folk songs. They’ll be performing acoustically at Horsetooth Mountain Park in Fort Collins, CO.

For more details on this Sagebrush Session, visit our homepage (scroll to the bottom): sustainmusicandnature.org

You can also check out our Facebook event for this and see what folks are saying!