Watch Casey Neill perform for Bedstock, the first and only online music festival where artists play from bed for sick kids stuck in theirs. Donations go to the Children’s Cancer Association and their flagship MyMusicRx program.
Bedstock, the weeklong festival and fundraising event launched on Tuesday, November 27, and runs through December 4, with all manner of pop and rock stars—Jeff Tweedy, Walk the Moon, Lisa Loeb, and Mike Phillips among them—airing acoustic tunes from their beds. This year, local animation studio Laika was also inspired to put together an edit of bedroom scenes and musical sequences from its catalog of films to help raise money for Bedstock. Watch Kubo, Coraline, and friends take to their bed to raise funds for MyMusicRx programs.
Death Cab for Cutie, Hozier, “Weird Al” Yankovic and more musicians are coming together for Bedstock, the most comfortable music festival in existence. The online music event has artists perform music from their beds, lying in solidarity with kids fighting serious illnesses who are forced to spend their holidays in the hospital.
This year’s Bedstock begins on Giving Tuesday (Nov. 27) and runs until Dec. 4. The online festival is the first of its kind, and includes performances from CCA children in addition to the videos recorded by various musicians like Bishop Briggs and Tune-Yards. “[I’m] grateful to be joining so many excellent artists playing from bed to do a little part to heal and uplift seriously ill kids,” Merrill Garbus of Tune-Yards tells Billboard.
MyMusicRX is a program aimed at helping kids and teens facing cancer or other serious illnesses through music. Sarah Marshall and Bob Lum, both MyMusicRX Austin board members, talk about the program and something new it’s launching.
For many people, music is therapy, a way to escape and to be inspired and happy. That’s especially true for sick kids at local hospitals. MyMusicRX has been around for more than 30 years through the Children’s Cancer Association, and it has launched an extension of its flagship program so kids can access it anywhere online.
Vance Joy has launched a new charitable initiative called Ukuleles for Kids. The musician teamed up with ukulele brand Kala and MyMusicRx — the flagship program of the Children’s Cancer Association — to kick off his new program, bringing the instruments to children in hospitals. Joy himself will film video lessons hosted by MyMusicRx, teaching the notes to songs including his own “Riptide” and latest single “Saturday Sun.” Kala will donate plastic, hospital-sanitary ukuleles, encouraging patients to learn how to play.
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