One Longfellow Square

🎸 We’re a little over two weeks into our Help Share the Music Spring Fundraiser, and thanks to this community, we’ve already raised more than $12,000 toward our $30,000 goal by June 30!

We’re genuinely blown away by your generosity.

Every donation helps support the work that happens both inside and beyond our four walls: free outdoor concerts, our Library Pass Program, free monthly Open Mics, the Longfellow Emerging Artist Fellowship (LEAF), affordable livestreams, and other programs that help make live music more accessible throughout our community.

If you've visited recently, you've probably spotted this guitar hanging in the venue. Built by our Venue Manager, Andy, it's become home to a handful of guitar picks signed by supporters who've helped Share the Music. Donate during a show, add your name to a pick, and become part of the wall. (And yes, Andy has also invited people to lob crumpled bills his way during his curtain speech. Please note: no coins. 😅)

This week's campaign focus is livestreaming and the ways it helps connect audiences far beyond Portland. Stay tuned as we continue highlighting the programs your support makes possible.

❤️ Help us reach $30,000 by June 30.

Donate at onelongfellowsquare.com/sharethemusic

This week, our Help Share The Music campaign is highlighting livestreaming - and all the ways it helps music travel far beyond our four walls 💙

Over the past year, viewers have tuned into OLS livestreams from 36 states, plus places like Australia, Canada, Germany, Great Britain, and Japan. Parents get to watch their kids perform from across the country, friends reconnect in the chat, and fans who can’t physically make it to Portland are still able to experience sold out shows and special moments in real time.

One of our favorite parts of every livestream is watching the chat come alive - people greeting each other from different corners of the world, sharing where they’re tuning in from, cheering on artists, and feeling connected through the music together. Last month during our Kruger Brothers livestream, 38 viewers were actively chatting throughout the show, and it genuinely felt like its own little community forming in real time!

Your donations help power all of this - making livestreaming accessible, affordable, and available to people wherever they are.

Help us continue Sharing the Music:
onelongfellowsquare.com/sharethemusic