Willie Nelson
There is a lifetime of achievements that are documented about Mr. Willie Nelson and his career in music and the many causes he supports. We would like to talk about his impact on Texas Music Project.
Texas Music Project (TMP) reached out to Mr. Nelson in 2002 to be the Honorary Chairman of our organization and our initiative to support music education in Texas schools.
Mr. Nelson accepted and we began to build our organization and artist support for a series of four CD’s. The list included over 80 artists of all genre of music. Most of the artist were Texan with the exception of a few guest artist such Bonnie Raitt and Eric Clapton who contributed a songs to our CD fundraiser.
Moving forward ten years at the Texas Music Magazine Appreciation party in 2013, Michael Clay publicly thanked all Texas artists for supporting TMP. A special shout out was given to Willie for his 80 Birthday.
As students mature and study Texas music, they will discover the vast musical contribution Mr. Nelson gave to the world through music. They will also discover all the time, money and love he generosity gave to life changing organizations such as ours.
Maren Morris
Success stories are always nice to hear about, especially when they're homegrown. Texas Music Project is proud to have had the chance to send Maren to Grammy songwriting class when she was 15 years old and watch her receive multi Grammy's as songwriter and industry accolades as a performer.
Maren’s Grammy stage debut performance was nothing short of spectacular – a rendition of her song “Once” alongside multi-Grammy Award-winning singer/ songwriter Alicia Keys. Maren shared nominations with such country music stars as Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood, Keith Urban and Brandy Clark.
We're honored to have Maren continue to help TMP and follow the Dali Lama of Texas Music, Mr Willie Nelson. Making music dreams
come true is what TMP is about and Maren's story is a wonderful example of these efforts.
Making music dreams come true is what we at TMP are all about, and Maren’s story is just another in a long line of continued music education success stories. We can’t wait to see what more music Maren brings us and the help she can bring in spreading the word on saving the arts in Texas.