RIP Edward Langley
We are honored to help celebrate and memorialize the life of Edward Langley, who recently passed, and share this photo and obituary text: LANGLEY, Edward Joseph, of Somerville, suddenly passed at the age of 48 on June 25, 2019...
Ten Directors Elected
The Mockingbird Foundation is honored and excited to announce the election of ten (10) new members to the Board of Directors: Andrea Nusinov Bill Bowman Bill Ryan Brian Baker Chip Parker Chris Cagle David Beckwith Katie Irwin Reed Meschefske...
Summer Tour Grants Announced
In celebration of Phish’s 27-show Summer Tour, the Mockingbird Foundation has announced 13 unsolicited Tour Grants supporting music programs across the country. Each $1,500 grant has been awarded to a music program near a venue Phish plays this summer....
Pedalpalooza Phish Ride supports Mockingbird
Riders in the 3rd Annual Pedalpalooza Phish Bike Ride in Portland have been invited to help make it a benefit event by donating to the Mockingbird Foundation, an all-volunteer 501c3 run entirely by Phish fans, supporting music education for...
Golf Registration is Open!
Looking for the 2021 Sixth Annual Event? Registration has started for the Fourth Annual Runaway Open charity golf tournament for Phish fans, the morning of the second show of the upcoming Dick’s run, over Labor Day weekend. We’ll have...
Mockingbird Goes Academic
Five representatives from the Mockingbird Foundation – Scott Marks, David “ZZYZX” Steinberg, Charlie Dirksen, Ellis Godard, and Brian Feller – will participate as a panel at the Phish Studies Conference May 17-19 at Oregon State University. The event, which will feature academic panels...
Mockingbird Bylaws Revised
The Board of Directors of the Mockingbird Foundation has completed an overhaul of the corporation’s Bylaws, first adopted December 15, 2000, and last revised four years ago, on April 7, 2015. The new revision, adopted unanimously on April 8,...
Mockingbird on TV
The Mockingbird Foundation got what may be its first TV mention, during a story on ABC-6/WLNE about the recent partnership with the Newport Festival Foundation. Here’s a clip:
Newport Festivals Foundation partnering with artists in donations
NewportRI.com ran a story about Trey’s directing the Newport Festival Foundation to give its artist-related grant to Mockingbird, citing the press release. “The benefits of music education in the lives of young people are countless, and yet music programs...
Mockingbird in MEL
Mockingbird Foundation President Adam Scheinberg was quoted in a recent article in MEL Magazine about the rise of Democratic presidential Pete Buttigieg: “Pete — a gay veteran Midwest up-and-comer, hip to improvisational rock performed by supremely talented musicians —...