Julie Maune & St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Family and Friends,

This morning I registered for my 10th year to run and fundraise for St. Jude. What a ride it has been! I’ve met so many fundraisers locally and across the country, and I’ve met and heard stories of families fighting for their children to survive. Cancer is awful. No child should have to fight it, and no parent should have to watch their child endure it. Thank you for hanging with me year after year, working toward the goal of ensuring that every child – every single one – survives their battle and goes on to live a healthy life. Remember:

Families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food – because all a family should worry about is helping their child live.

Treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20% to more the 80% since it opened more than 50 years ago. St. Jude is working to drive the overall survival rate for childhood cancer to 90%, and they won’t stop until no child dies from cancer.

Other than running in preparation for the St. Jude Marathon Weekend in December in Memphis, I will be fundraising. I will host a live music event, a ‘1.2-mile run every hour for 24 hours’ event from my garage, a backyard chili cook-off, a Halloween bake sale and more. With your support we can help the kids win their battle against this awful disease.

About Liz Longley

Best known for her stop-you-in-your-tracks voice, Liz Longley is an accomplished singer-songwriter based out of Nashville, TN. With her deeply emotional music, Longley has earned accolades from some of the most prestigious songwriting competitions in the country, including the BMI John Lennon Songwriting Scholarship Competition.

Her self-titled debut album received critical acclaim, being described as “something more; a cleverness, a wit and a mix of musical styles” (Dallas Morning News) and “stunning” (HuffPost). Her follow up album Weightless, released in 2016, was praised as “a thing of beauty” (Pop Dose) and “packed with instantly memorable pop rock songs…” (Popmatters).

The Berklee College of Music grad worked alongside 5-time Grammy-nominated producer, Paul Moak, on her much awaited sixth album, Funeral For my Past. The journey of her self-release made music industry headlines when her devoted fanbase raised over $150,000 to help her purchase the rights to and independently release the album. Longley became the #4 most funded solo female musician in Kickstarter history – a story covered by Billboard Magazine.

About Barnaby Bright

Barnaby Bright, an alt-Americana trio, defies easy categorization with their unique blend of contemporary influences and a geographical journey that spans from Brooklyn to Nashville to Kansas. Drawing on Nathan’s Oklahoma roots and his distant relation to Merle Haggard, the band creates a sound that pushes the boundaries of indie folk.

Accumulating widespread acclaim, Barnaby Bright has secured a dedicated following who revels in their ability to weave storytelling into sonic treasures. Their presence on Amazon’s “Top 100 Albums of the Year” and the New York Times’ recognition of their Christmas record as one of the top 20 in 2020 further solidifies their stand in the singer/songwriter world. Their live shows take audiences on a captivating journey, delving into murder ballads, love songs, thought-provoking stories and deeply relatable themes.

Notably, Barnaby Bright was awarded the grand prize at NYC’s prestigious Songwriter’s Circle and recently had five songs featured in the Netflix hit TV show, Sex/Life. As they continue to open for illustrious acts like Norah Jones and The Lumineers, the band captivates audiences, leaving a lasting impression and attracting new followers with each mesmerizing performance.

Everly Brothers Tribute

This past January at Sawhorse Studios right here in St. Louis, Nathan, Becky & Liz spent an afternoon recording some early Everly Brothers hits.  The results were amazing (see video below).

As part of our Break Room Concert, they will be preforming those songs live for the first time. You are not going to believe these Everly Brothers classics sung from two beautiful female voices.