Planting education, Growing musicians.
At Music Farming, the vision is a world where the benefits and joy of music are available to ALL who want it, without exception.
We are actively inviting businesses to commit to annual membership and support organizations that provide music education & programming to inspire creativity and expand access for all. Join us!
Music Farming is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that has zero ties to actual farming, chickens, or almanacs.
WHAT MUSIC EDUCATION MEANS TO US
"Music Education" can encompass a wide range of curricula, experiences, and contexts outside of the classroom, including:
Music Instruction:
Instrumental, Vocal, and Music Technology instruction.
Music Appreciation: Programs exploring genres and cultural contexts.
Cultural Education: Exploring diverse musical genres and their effects on culture.
Lifelong Learning: Opportunities & Programs for all ages to engage in music.
Community & Team Building:
Community Programs: Accessible workshops and events.
Collaborative Learning: Group musical instruction and projects.
Performance Opportunities: Public performances that build confidence.
Therapeutic Applications:
Healing through Music: Programs that foster physical, emotional, & psychological well-being through music.
Board of Directors
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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 all of music and entertainment. He has shot a wide range of artists, from Johnny Cash to Tupac Shakur, from Bjork to Bruce Springsteen.
His work appears on hundreds of album covers and in publications like Vanity Fair, Spin, Rolling Stone, GQ, Esquire, and more.
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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 photography and filmmaking business.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Eddie Berrang
Eddie Berrang is a relentless optimist hoping to one day find his missing sock. When not looking behind the dryer, Eddie is either taking the yellow dog for a walk or helping his eight year old daughter figure out how to open a sustainable sushi restaurant. 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.