We plant education and grow musicians.

At Music Farming, our vision is to create a world where music education is available to all who want it; a world where every student can experience the pure joy of creating music. By collecting membership dues from businesses and contributing those funds to nonprofit music education organizations, we put teachers in students’ lives, instruments in their hands, and music in their future.

We encourage businesses to join us as we identify organizations and educators who keep music alive in their local communities by providing access to instruction, instruments, and equipment, and inspiring students of all ages to achieve their creative goals. Join us!

Music Farming is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that keeps music education thriving, and has zero ties to actual farming, chickens, and almanacs.                                             

Board of Directors

  • Danny Clinch

    Danny Clinch loves music. He listens to it, plays it, photographs it, and films it. Through this passion, Danny has established himself as one of the premier photographers across the entire music scene. He has shot and filmed a wide range of artists, from Johnny Cash to Tupac Shakur, from Bjork to Bruce Springsteen.

    His work has appeared on hundreds of album covers and in publications like Vanity Fair, Spin, Rolling Stone, GQ, Esquire, and more.

  • Maria Clinch

    Maria jumped into the madness that is NYC in the ’80s and after graduating from the Fashion Institute of Technology, represented several fashion, music and celebrity photographers before partnering with her husband Danny Clinch, to run their business of photography, and filmmaking.

    After raising her two children, she is currently the executive producer of the Transparent Clinch Gallery, an immersive art gallery and community hub in Asbury Park NJ that she founded with her husband Danny.

  • Liz Lambert

    Liz Lambert was born and raised in West Texas. A former attorney turned hotelier, she began her career in hospitality two decades ago, transforming a rundown motel on South Congress into an iconic boutique hotel, Hotel San Jose.

    Liz went on to found Bunkhouse Group, where she led her team to create, reposition and manage numerous other hotels. She most recently joined MML Hospitality as a partner, where she focuses on creative direction, hotel projects and company culture, while continuing to co-lead concept and interior design at Lambert McGuire Design.

  • Rob Wells

    Rob Wells is a digital music pioneer with nearly three decades of experience in the music industry. He is largely responsible for ushering digital music distribution and consumption into the mainstream, growing the then-unknown format to nearly 60% market share over the course of his 15 years with the Universal Music Group. He is currently CEO of Orfium, a rights management business in the entertainment sector with multiple music rights owners as clients and partners.

    At Universal, Wells was responsible for building the major label’s digital business from its infancy into a global leader.

  • Tim Parr

    After selling the first company he founded, Swobo, to Santa Cruz Bicycles, Tim worked at the iconic brand Patagonia in Ventura, CA., and later founded the brand strategy company PARR GOLDMAN & BYRNE. After many years of business consultancy, he decided he should tour the Western US with a bluegrass band melting faces.

    He currently is founder/CEO of CADDIS, the world’s first brand evangelizing awesome aging. In 2021 he gathered a group of unsuspecting heavyweights to launch the non-profit, Music Farming, and is granting money to music education.

  • Eddie Berrang

    Eddie Berrang is a relentless optimistic about one day finding his missing sock. When not looking behind the dryer, Eddie is either taking the yellow dog for a walk or helping his youngest daughter figure out how to open a sustainable sushi restaurant, she’s eight. There are many great bands and musicians in the world. Eddie is not one of them but he leads Whalebone, an organization dedicated to helping others in the music world and beyond.