Recovery music festivals and organizations
Music, hope, sobriety: Park City Song Summit is a week of musical healing
Ben Anderson, organizer of the Park City Song Summit Meet the new festival, most definitely not the same as the old festival. When the Park City Song Summit debuts on Sept. 8, it will bear some resemblances to its 2019 predecessor, 2019’s Park City Songwriter Festival, a two-day event spotlighting music but that also featured…
Read MoreThe CHECK YOUR HEAD Podcast: Mari Fong shines a light on recovery
Music, Mari Fong knows well, is an escape pod. During our journeys through the spiritual cosmos of human existence, we all hit pockets of turbulence. The detritus from collapsing planets and exploding stars shower us with emotional debris that damages us, sometimes to the point of near-total destruction. But always, there is music. It was…
Read MoreA Sublime dream: Bradley Nowell’s legacy lives on in a house that bears his name
Twenty-four years later, Kellie Nowell still trembles when she recalls the moment she got the news. May 25, 1996: She pulled into the family garage and knew immediately something was amiss. Her mother’s car was parked in front of the house, and her husband met her as she exited the car to deliver the devastating…
Read MorePark City Songwriter Festival: Music in the mountains, with a side of addiction recovery
The O.P. Rockwell will be one of the host venues for the Park City Songwriter Festival, which takes place Sept. 13 and 14 in Park City, Utah. When Ben Anderson pauses for a few minutes and reflects on the path his life has taken, you can almost hear him grinning on the other end of…
Read MoreMusiCares offers a lifeline to recovery for artists and industry types who find themselves struggling with addiction
Past Stevie Ray Vaughan Award recipients, from left, Alice Cooper (2008), Ozzy Osbourne (2014), Smokey Robinson (2016) and James Hetfield (2006). (Photo courtesy of Grammy.com/Getty Images) In his 2000 memoir “On Writing,” novelist Stephen King detailed his battle with addiction and alcoholism, spending several paragraphs on the propensity of artists, musicians and writers to travel…
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