Stratton Tingle explains the CHA Area Musicians Relief Fund for Covid-strapped entertainment workers

Stratton Tingle explains the CHA Area Musicians Relief Fund for Covid-strapped entertainment workers

It's just our friend stratton tingle is joining us with sound core chattanooga.

Obviously everyone knows over the past several months the music scene mistakenly particularly tough bashing: 19 stratton is here to tell us a little bit about how you can help stratton.

First of all, good morning and it's always a pleasure.

Good morning.

So much for having us on.

I really for the time we can ask to be together in person, maybe get up a concert or two.

I'm writing a ready fact you look like you're ready to go right now you discover reach over shoulder, guitar, you're ready take off.

You know, i was given nearby.

I certainly do pay.

First of all, tell me exactly what sound court is before we get and what sure system core was started in 2015 as a nonprofit to help musicians and music and his repression is her in chattanooga to build their careers right here in chattanooga.

So that's our focus helping musicians take the next step in the career topping on the music industry professional to act with a not real spirit and arm start businesses in chattanooga and grow them from here.

How many professional or full-time musicians.

Would you say we got within a will take 50 mile radius of right here.

We all more more than you would imagine right now i can i can speak from mom.

We have an online directory of local music industry professionals and ther are over her teen hundred profiles on the directory if you like to find and connect with the local position.

Her music is professional, you can find a sound core.org/directory come you're getting ready to actuall been doing this for a while now but this is called the chattanooga area musicians relief fund, tell us little bit about the wondrous objective behind the finding number two, tell us little bit about the wondrous objective behind the finding number 200 and help mee that goal.

Yes, so obviously the coven 19 pandemic guided the live music industry, leaving a lot of musicians and other musi and as professionals arm suddenly without any income in any work we opened an initial week we raised a little bit of money and partnered with the young foundation here in chattanooga and did an initial round of relief funding to chattanooga area musicians who could prove that they were in need an experienced spirit grea loss due to the pandemic shutting down all of the business and we are proud to announce we are opening a secon round of applications are open right now we have around 100 we have around 100,000 dollars that we are supporting local music a professionals with relief funds.

No hundred thousand dollars.

That's right yeah well we have risen hundred thousand dollars for the spohn think you were really proud of it and am probably the best way that people in general can help is t make sure there musicians and music industry friends know about the fund and that it's open right now directly closes this friday october thirtieth.

The second round at midnight so you need to go to cha music bond.com to apply and learn more about your eligibility.

This is partially funded by a tennessee state community cares grant so this is only applicable to residents of the state of tennessee.

Obviously our our music industry comps is musicians and music vessels fro georgia, alabama, north carolina as well but this particular round is only open to residents of the state of tennessee.

You can find more about that at cha music and.com.

Conversely, i would imagine you're also more than happy to accept its donations to go into the music relief.

We are the the best way to do that is actually there ar are main website, which is not cha music.com, but which is sound core.org should probably make it easier for people to give us money on her face her pounding me to do that on the ocean apply for some help ... so any musician or me on the music and is professional, such as on an audio engineer.

For instance, sound recording studi owner can prove that they have experienced hardship specifically due to the coven 1 pandemic so if you have can't no contracts that were canceled so you submit those with your application.

If you have obviously no work that you can compare.

You know, receipts fro this year up to receipts from last year and a big difference submit those types of information to us.

You can appl for up to 2500 dollars worth of relief.

What's the criteria on which applications will be judged.

It was just a couple of the high points on yeah so am for small the unit, the percentage of your total income that is derived from music industry work does go into effect on the level of of need.

So, how well is your applicatio written how are are you able to document no is her duck mentation.

You know it high- level proof of lost income.

The quality of work samples provide things like you know showing us that you have in fact i'm in the music industry and and those can include songs and photos and videos or whatever you want and then sort of an overall volume the application so this is a competitive application need to make it as good as possible.

You are friend of absolutely this out of the park.

Very proud of you guys have been able to us t accomplish stratton tingle truly cares about the music price track stratton job well done.

Come down and talk to us about it.

One of these days.

During the morning so you got a better early.

I our love will be in touch stratton tingle, the s much want to find out or about what you're doing.

It's easy.

Just check out the website cha music five.com cha music