

| The Phoenix Fund has been established to provide financial assistance
to ill or injured singer songwriters who find themselves in financial
distress. Other hardships resulting from destruction or loss of
personal transportation or instruments are also considered. This assistance program essentially exists to render immediate, if minimal aid, in response to requests from, or in behalf of, the more than 1000 artists who have played the Kerrville Music Festivals. In prior years, instant aid in the amount of up to $100 has been granted on the approval of the foundation's executive director. Starting in 1999, larger grants of up to $500 can be approved by the foundation's new three-member funding panel. Since few folk artists have health insurance, they are independent business people not employed by health care-providing companies, in an emergency they have traditionally counted on voluntary support from fellow artists, or in more serious cases, on the ever-present benefit concerts. Kerrville Music Foundation earnestly solicits contributions for the Phoenix Fund so that these independent artists will at least have the fund's minimal grants to count on in future emergency situations. Tax-deductible donations should be payable to: Kerrville Music Foundation Phoenix Fund. Applications for assistance should go to the same fund, P. 0. Box 1466, Kerrville, Texas 78029. We will acknowledge donations and applications immediately. For additional information or to make funding or operational suggestions, call the foundation executive director, Rod Kennedy, at 1 (800) 435-8429 during regular business hours. |

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