Musician’s Emergency Resource Foundation Inc.

Serving the Louisville music community since 1982


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HOW IT STARTED

In 1982, Louisville, Kentucky area musicians organized a fundraiser to benefit a fellow musician who had been injured in an auto accident. The collaborative event was so successful in drawing upon the community's support, that the money raised exceeded the musician's emergency needs. That musician, Marvin Maxwell, established MERF as a way to perpetuate this fellowship between the music community and the community at large.

Since then, MERF has provided emergency assistance to Kentuckiana musicians and other entertainment workers for more than three decades, raising over $200,000.00 to fund its mission through annual fundraisers, donations, silent auctions and sponsorships.

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