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The Mockingbird Foundation, Inc. It has published three editions of The Phish Companion: A Guide to the Band & Their Music.

is a volunteer run, non-profit organization which broadens access and educational opportunities for young people in music and the musical arts. Since 1994, Mockingbird has cultivated intellectual property on Phish and their music through phish.net, making it the leading provider of historical information about the band. Through partnerships, The Foundation contributes content to a dozen other Phish related sites and four mobile apps. The Foundation's initial project was the compilation of the most factually accurate, delightfully literary book on Phish’s music available, created through contributions from as many fans as possible. In addition to The Phish Companions, The Foundation produces a wider range of resources and diversions for fans, including ownership of the fan website phish.net. The Foundation formally adopted phish.net as a project on January 17, 2005. The site had begun in 1991 and served Phish fans for nearly two decades as static HTML pages. It was re-launched in the Fall of 2009 as an integrated database - of setlists, song histories, reviews, and more. Unconventional in structure, it exists almost entirely online, allowing a higher percentage of income to be distributed directly to deserving organizations. Mockingbird was born from a Usenet newsgroup and started as a mailing list, and now sustains through online forums and blogs on phish.net, as well as Facebook and Twitter. The Mockingbird Foundation is entirely volunteer based, with no salaries, paid staff, office space, or endowment — thus distributing all possible funds to charity. No member or volunteer benefits financially from the Foundation in any way, and all proceeds from Mockingbird projects are donated to tax-exempt organizations. At the beginning of Summer 2016, The Foundation announced that Phish fans have donated over one million dollars to charity. To learn how The Mockingbird Foundation is impacting the funding of local children's music programs, visit: http://bit.ly/mbird-milestones

10/14/2026

In celebration of Phish’s eight-show fall tour, the all-volunteer and fan-run Mockingbird Foundation has announced $8,000 in unsolicited Tour Grants, $2K each to one music education program in each city in which Phish recently performed. The four recipients are:

✨ Chicken Bone Beach Historical Foundation Inc. of Atlantic City, NJ
✨ Music Orchard Richmond of Richmond, VA
✨ Terry Parker High School of Jacksonville, FL
✨ Huntsville Community Drumline of Huntsville, AL

Tour Grants are a long-standing effort by Mockingbird to support music education in the local communities which have welcomed and hosted the Phish community. And we thank YOU, our incredible supporters, for allowing us to continue this tradition! This is our 37th set of Tour Grants, and includes Mockingbird’s 809th grant and 254th Tour Grant, totaling over $3 MILLION since our founding.

Read more here: https://mbird.org/2026/10/8-shows-8k-in-grants/

Photo: John Crouch

09/30/2026

Thank you to WCAX-TV for the supportive coverage!

https://www.wcax.com/2026/09/29/phish-fans-create-new-scholarship-vermont-college-music-students/
Vermont Student Assistance Corporation (VSAC)

A new college scholarship is available thanks to the Vermont jam band Phish and its fans.

09/29/2026

The Mockingbird Foundation is honored to announce that we have endowed a fund with the Vermont Student Assistance Corp. (VSAC) to provide an annual scholarship to a student studying music or music education at a college in Vermont.

The fund will provide scholarships in perpetuity, supporting generations of music students, and outlasting the band, the fans, and Mockingbird itself. In short: Music scholarships funded entirely by Phish fans will continue - in principle, and on appreciating principal - forever!

Thank you to ALL who have donated throughout our 30 years (!!!) as an organization to make something at this scale possible.

read more: https://mbird.org/2026/09/vsac-scholarship/

09/09/2026

The second selection in the "Mockingbird (read the) Book Club" will be Walter "Waxbanks" Holland's Phish's A Live One. Part of Bloomsbury Publishing's fabulous 33 1/3 series, this is a 160-page retrospective twenty years after Phish's first live release, which followed years of the band being asked, "When are you going to release a live one?"... and, so, they did.

As Bloomsbury details it, the book "places Phish and their fandom in historical and cultural context, and picks apart the mechanics of their extended group jams. And it examines the mystery of how a quartet of nice boys from Burlington, VT could have been, all at once, one of America's biggest touring acts and one of its best-kept secrets."

Forum and blog discussions will start nearly four weeks from now, on September 23rd, and the Zoom Meet the Author will be Wednesday, September 30th, at 5pm Pacific, 8pm Eastern. Stay tuned for more details!

08/25/2026

With great excitement we are announcing our 4th annual Back to School fund drive. Schools across the country are gearing up for a busy school year and many can use our support to help close funding gaps for their music programs.

To help your donation go even further, one of our incredible donors has kindly offered to match donations up to $5000 (and we’re about halfway there already!) The campaign is running now through Labor Day and we thank you for your continued generosity!

📸: Girls Rock DC - a 2025 competitive grant recipient

08/13/2026

🎻Grantee Highlight🎻 Young Women’s Preparatory Network in El Paso, TX

In 2025 this deserving organization was the recipient of a $10,000 competitive grant - used to broaden access to music education across two schools, grades 6-12.

As a result of the grant, more students were able to consistently engage in music classes and participate in performances and other enrichment opportunities that had previously been limited by funding constraints!

08/10/2026

Have you Read the Book? Join The Mockingbird Foundation and David Steinberg for a convo about his book “This Has All Been Wonderful” on Wednesday, Aug 12! Link to register for the zoom in our bio. See you there!

07/31/2026

If you’re in Boston this weekend, come support The Mockingbird Foundation and a ton of other incredible independent Phish artists Pete Mason!

Our new Summer Tour poster by Kory McGeehan is available for purchase along side all your other phishy faves.

Friday and Saturday / July 31 & Aug 1 / 12-6pm

Right across the street from Fenway Park at the corner of Lansdowne and Brookline

07/29/2026

We’re excited to announce nine new tour grants today, totaling $18,000 - one in each city in which Phish is performing during its summer tour. Grants will help fund new instruments, pay teaching artists, subsidize lesson tuition, purchase uniforms, and much more.

These are our 36th set of tour grants, and include our 250th tour grant and 800th (!!) grant overall — all possible thanks to the support of fans like you.

07/02/2026

Our newest poster is live and ready to order! Thanks to the folks at Show Merch LLC for production and Kory McGeehan for the incredible artwork.

Remember that every print purchased helps us grant much needed funds to music education programs across the United States!

https://store.mbird.org/products/kory-mcgeehan-summer-2026-tour-poster

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