Support Haiti– and indie music

I’m trying to write a few feelings about the earthquake in Haiti but finding it nearly impossible to write anything without sounding trite. I feel like you. It’s horrible. I feel totally helpless and alternately want to get on the next plane to help.

I have been so grateful to see the way so many people and organizations with the necessary skills and means have mobilized to do what they can. Our good friends at Sweet Sleep already have relationships with some orphanages in Haiti and had been working there, providing beds since the earthquake Haiti experienced a little over a year ago. This week, Sweet Sleep organized a bedding drive in the Nashville area and collected over two thousand blankets and sheets that are now on a ship to Haiti. Sweet Sleep maintains relationships with orphanages and humanitarian organizations in Haiti, and they’re worthy of your donations.

I’ve also been glad to see businesses that aren’t normally humanitarian in nature step up and do their part. CD Baby is one of those businesses. CD Baby the largest online distributor of independent music, and they’re the primary distributor of both of our CDs. We got an email from them today (read it here), saying that they will donate $1 of their cut from each sale on CD Baby for the next two weeks. Their donations will go to the American Red Cross and Mercy Corps.

So, support indie musicians and buy their music on CD Baby. According to their site, there are 278,510 different albums to choose from, so you’re sure to find something you like. And if you have not picked up a copy of our Laughing Tree Lullabies, Vol. 1, this is a really good time to do it. Like always, we’re donating 10% of our proceeds to Sweet Sleep, and right now CD Baby is donating a dollar to Haiti relief efforts, too.

-Jessica