Small Business Live Stream Virtual Festival Announces Lineup Featuring 2 Chainz, Brittany Howard, Brandi Carlile and More

On Saturday, June 20, 2020, Superfly, live entertainment and branding company, is presenting a philanthropic music experience to support local businesses called Small Business Live to help underserved entrepreneurs in the United States. Live streaming performances are set to start at 4 p.m. ET and continue through 10 p.m. ET. Performers will be live streaming from the small businesses of their choice. The lineup and locations include:

  • 2 Chainz at K&K Soul Food in Atlanta, Georgia
  • Allen Stone at Terrain in Spokane, Washington
  • Bam Marley (location to be announced)
  • Brandi Carlile at Easy Street Records in Seattle, Washington
  • Brittany Howard at Fanny’s House of Music in Nashville, Tennessee
  • Jufu at Envirobliss in Brooklyn, New York
  • Leon Bridges at Avoca Coffee in Fort Worth, Texas
  • Moon Taxi at Grimey’s in Nashville, Tennessee
  • Nathaniel Ratelff (location to be announced)
  • T-Pain (location to be announced), and
  • more to come

The event will be streamed on TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Twitch, Twitter, LiveXLive and Bustle Digital Group’s publications. One hundred percent of donations received from the event will go to Accion Opportunity Fund, a global nonprofit organization working to ensure that underserved entrepreneurs in the U.S. have access to the capital and resources they need to build and grow their businesses.

Founding Partners of the event include TikTok, AT&T Business, GoDaddy, Vistaprint and Square. On their Facebook page, Superfly states “we have been pouring our hearts into Small Business Live to raise money for at risk small businesses impacted by Covdid-19.” TikTok announces “As a founding partner of Small Business Live, TikTok is proud to rally a community of creators around the small businesses that need our support.” AT&T declares “AT&T Business is a proud supporter of Small Business Live. From coffee shops to bike shops, yoga studios to petstores, small businesses connect our communities in irreplaceable ways.”

If you would like to receive updates to the Small Business Live event, you can sign up for the event mailing list. Details on how to donate have yet to be determined however instructions on how to donate will be posted once available. More information about the small business venues where artists will be performing live can also be found on their website.

Photo credit: Stephen Hoffmeister

Alex Limbert: Alex was born in Florida and spent his childhood in New Jersey. He lived in Japan in the ‘90s and has been living in Los Angeles since the millennium. He started playing guitar at the age of eight, studied music theory throughout high school, made an album and went on tour at the age of eighteen. He graduated from Rutgers University with a Bachelor of Science in Certified Public Accounting, is a CPA, has a small accounting firm and has been a financial controller for over ten years. In 2017, he decided to continue his music career but realized the technology had changed since he was younger. He started going to school online in the evenings to learn music technology and earned a certificate in electronic music proficiency. He is interested in writing about music and is currently taking classes in music appreciation and journalism. In addition to writing for mxdwn, he plans to continue producing music and to work in music business management. He can be reached at aplimbert@yunizen.com.
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