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Unison Launches GoFundMe Campaign With Slaight Support

Canadian musicians facing the loss of income, job security and anxiety over their industry's future amid the global coronavirus pandemic has led the Unison Benevolent Fund to launch an Emergency Me

Unison Launches GoFundMe Campaign With Slaight Support

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Canadian musicians facing the loss of income, job security and anxiety over their industry's future amid the global coronavirus pandemic has led the Unison Benevolent Fund to launch an Emergency Mental Health Relief GoFundMe charity campaign.


To support music artists, crews and behind the scenes teams, Slaight Music has agreed to match all donations up to $25,000.

"During a crisis, mental illness doesn’t simply go away and for many, the increased stressors only make it worse. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Unison has seen a 29% increase in demand for counselling services, and a 61% increase in urgent mental health crisis intervention cases," Unison, a non-profit charity offering counselling and emergency relief services to the Canadian music community, said on the campaign's landing page. Continue reading Etan Vlessing’s coverage on the Samaritanmag website.

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James Gadson performs during the Playing for Change - We are One Benefit concert at The Mayan on October 3, 2017 in Los Angeles.
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James Gadson performs during the Playing for Change - We are One Benefit concert at The Mayan on October 3, 2017 in Los Angeles.

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This week we also acknowledge the passing of former E Street Band singer and violinist Suki Lahav.

John Griffin, former music and film critic at The Montreal Gazette, died on March 21, at age 76.

Griffin was born in Montreal and, in 1964, his family moved to England, where he attended college in Berkshire. They returned to Montreal in 1967 after Griffin and his three sisters had been exposed to the Swinging Sixties in England, including the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.

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