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Alisdair MacRae Birch All Messages By This Member #130920 Pat Martino Fund Organised by: Joseph Donofrio, Carmen Intorre, Joel Harrison, John Ernesto, Pat Bianchi Internationally beloved jazz guitarist Pat Martino (Patrick C. Azzara) has not worked since November 2018 due to severe health issues and his ability to keep financially afloat has been greatly impacted by his current disabilities. This legendary artist from Philadelphia has exhausted his savings and sees no other options before him other than to appeal to the larger community for help. He needs your donations and your good will to keep his household intact and pay medical bills while he concentrates on getting healthy. -A 听 -- Alisdair MacRae Birch Guitarist/Bassist/Educator/Arranger
Scott Dercks All Messages By This Member #130921 I am sorry, but this just needs to be said. What a shame upon the United States. It's starting to seem like we aren't even part of the "civilized world" any more. When we reduce our great artists to begging to ensure corporate profits we need to rediscover our soul. Although I intend to try to help one of my guitar heroes, I really wish that the poor weren't the ones that need to take care of the poor. Scott Dercks (guitarist) toggle quoted message Show quoted text ---------- Original Message ---------- From: "Alisdair MacRae Birch via Groups.Io" <akmbirch@...> To: [email protected] Subject: [Jazz-Guitar] Pat Martino Fund #PatMartino Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2020 05:58:53 -0800 Pat Martino Fund Organised by: Joseph Donofrio, Carmen Intorre, Joel Harrison, John Ernesto, Pat Bianchi Internationally beloved jazz guitarist Pat Martino (Patrick C. Azzara) has not worked since November 2018 due to severe health issues and his ability to keep financially afloat has been greatly impacted by his current disabilities. This legendary artist from Philadelphia has exhausted his savings and sees no other options before him other than to appeal to the larger community for help. He needs your donations and your good will to keep his household intact and pay medical bills while he concentrates on getting healthy. -A 听 -- Alisdair MacRae Birch Guitarist/Bassist/Educator/Arranger
Chris Smart All Messages By This Member #130922 开云体育 Is it just me who finds these appeals profoundly depressing? If top-tier artists like Barney Kessel or Pat Martino can鈥檛 sustain themselves, what chance if any do the rest have? Is this an indictment of the US healthcare system, a lack of societal respect and support for the arts, an inability to save for a rainy day, or a bit of all of those factors and more?听 Sent from Chris's socialist iPhone. toggle quoted message Show quoted text On Mar 7, 2020, at 09:59, Alisdair MacRae Birch via Groups.Io <akmbirch@...> wrote: 锘� Pat Martino Fund Organised by: Joseph Donofrio, Carmen Intorre, Joel Harrison, John Ernesto, Pat Bianchi Internationally beloved jazz guitarist Pat Martino (Patrick C. Azzara) has not worked since November 2018 due to severe health issues and his ability to keep financially afloat has been greatly impacted by his current disabilities. This legendary artist from Philadelphia has exhausted his savings and sees no other options before him other than to appeal to the larger community for help. He needs your donations and your good will to keep his household intact and pay medical bills while he concentrates on getting healthy. -A 听 -- Alisdair MacRae Birch Guitarist/Bassist/Educator/Arranger
Marc Stager #130923 Two thoughts: re:听 I really wish that the poor weren't the ones that need to take care of the poor.� Martino听 wasn't poor. I'm sure he had a healthy bank account. But in this country, serious medical expenses can bankrupt anyone who isn't in the top "1%"听 - and most folks don't have the exposure to get relief from sites like gofundme. Likewise, most donors aren't necessarily poor either - as long as they stay healthy. I remember a similar situation not long ago with Kenny Burrell, who had to raise money at gofundme, needed $150,000, got some $250,000 which put him and his family back on their feet again. A good outcome for a bad situation - but what if he hadn't been famous? re: "When we reduce our great artists to begging to ensure corporate profits we need to rediscover our soul." ... so make that "anybody",听 not just "great artists".听 Actually, successful artists will take a little longer to get there. Marc Stager :-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:- At 12:28 PM听听 3/7/2020, you wrote: toggle quoted message Show quoted text I am sorry, but this just needs to be said. What a shame upon the United States. It's starting to seem like we aren't even part of the "civilized world" any more. When we reduce our great artists to begging to ensure corporate profits we need to rediscover our soul. Although I intend to try to help one of my guitar heroes, I really wish that the poor weren't the ones that need to take care of the poor. Scott Dercks (guitarist)

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