Music and culture website Consequence Of Sound (CoS) has announced a livestream tribute benefit concert in honor of John Prine, the two-time GRAMMY-winning folk and Americana icon who died this week (April 7) at 73 due to COVID-19 complications. Dubbed the Angel From Maywood: A Livestream Tribute To John Prine, the online event will feature cover performances from Prine's friends, collaborators and artists who were influenced by the legend, including Warren Haynes, Norah Jones, Grace Potter, The Decemberists frontman Colin Meloy, Kevin Morby, Butch Walker, The Head And The Heart and many others.
The tribute is streaming live today (April 11) on the CoS Instagram account starting at 2 p.m. EST and running until approximately 9 p.m. EST; the performances will be available online for 24 hours after the livestream.
In accordance with the wishes of Prine's wife, Fiona Whelan Prine, the tribute event, which is open to the public for free, is raising donations to benefit three Nashville-based nonprofit organizations, including Nashville Rescue Mission, Room In The Inn and Thistle Farms.
A beloved singer-songwriter in the country folk and American roots genres, Prine was considered one of America's greatest songwriters and a master of lyrical craftsmanship. Counting 11 career GRAMMY nominations, he won two golden gramophones in the Best Contemporary Folk Album category for his albums The Missing Years (1991) and Fair & Square (2005).
In 2016, Prine visited the GRAMMY Museum in Los Angeles for an unforgettable event presented by the Recording Academy, which featured an in-depth conversation with the legend himself alongside GRAMMY winner Sturgill Simpson, led by acclaimed music writer and author of Songwriters On Songwriting, Paul Zollo.
"Songs are different from the music business and music and even records," Prine said during the panel. "If people didn't have music, they'd come up with it. They'd just drone and moan in the kitchen at night, and music would come out of it. It's something that people need, and they need to get stuff out of them[selves], so people would write songs. Otherwise you'd never get it out of you."
