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Since 1975, we have funded innovative medical research focused on finding cures for cancer.

09/21/2026

Dave Matthews. Trey Anastasio. Chris Stapleton. All three on one stage at Cipriani 42nd Street, and not one of them was the headliner.

Billboard recap named the real headliner: more than $3.2 million raised for cancer research at the T.J. Martell Foundation New York Honors Gala. A sold out room drawn from across the music business, and the most successful New York Honors Gala in more than two decades.

The night honored Coran Capshaw, founder of Red Light Management, with the Lifetime Music Industry Award, presented by his longtime friend Dave Matthews. Matthews, Anastasio and Stapleton each played a two song acoustic set in his honor. Coran manages all three.

"We're all here for Year One of the next 50," Coran said from the stage.

That is how we are counting it too. 50 years of banding together the music community, and a first year that starts now.

08/24/2026

Coran Capshaw, founder of Red Light Management, will receive the Lifetime Music Industry Award at our 51st Annual New York Honors Gala.

"I'm incredibly honored to support this life-saving work," said Capshaw.

Tuesday, September 15. Cipriani 42nd Street.

Fifty one years of this industry banding together to fund the research that finds the cures. Come be part of it.

Details at tjmartell.org.

08/13/2026

What happens when an entire industry decides to fight cancer?

You get a night like this one.

Look around that room and you will find people who compete with each other every single day of the year. Different labels, different rosters, different agendas. For one night they set all of it down and point everything they have at the same target.

That is what Tony Martell built in 1975 after he made a promise to his son. He knew the music business better than almost anyone, and he understood that its real power was not competition. It was what happened when it stopped competing.

Fifty one years later, the promise is still being kept in laboratories across the country, funded by the people in this photo and by everyone who has ever bought a ticket, sponsored a table, or given what they could.

Join us Tuesday, September 15, at Cipriani 42nd Street for the 51st Annual New York Honors Gala, where we will present the Lifetime Music Industry Award to Coran Capshaw, Founder of Red Light Management.

Details at tjmartell.org.

08/12/2026

26 years ago tonight belonged to Tony Bennett.

We pulled this from the T.J. Martell Foundation archives: Tony performing live at our 2000 New York Honors Gala, the year the foundation turned 25. Watching it back, you can feel exactly what makes this night different. The best in music show up, they give everything they have on that stage, and every bit of it goes toward the research that finds the cures.

That has been true since 1975, when Tony Martell made a promise to his son. It was true in 2000. It is true this September.

Join us Tuesday, September 15, at Cipriani 42nd Street for the 51st Annual New York Honors Gala, where we will present the Lifetime Music Industry Award to Coran Capshaw, Founder of Red Light Management.

Don't miss this year's. Details at tjmartell.org.

08/03/2026

Throwback to 2023.

The Red Hook Star-Revue covered the T.J. Martell Foundation New York Honors Gala that year, and reading it back still gives us chills. It was our first large gala since 2019, and the night brought the industry together again after a long time apart.

Coco Jones, Omar Apollo, and Brandy Clark all performed. The room was full of people who spend their careers competing with one another, standing shoulder to shoulder for a cause bigger than any of them.

Our chairman, Steve Gawley, put it best: "This is such a special event for the music community, this business is competitive, but here we come together."

Since 1975, the T.J. Martell Foundation has turned that spirit into funding for innovative cancer research. Thank you to everyone who was in the room, everyone who gave, and everyone who keeps this mission moving.

Together we fund the science that finds the cures.

07/27/2026

Where do new cancer discoveries actually begin?

Not in a headline. Not in a press release. They begin with an idea, carefully built.

Dr. Joanna J. Phillips sits on the T.J. Martell Foundation's Scientific Advisory Committee, the group of experts who review every proposal that crosses our desk. She is also a Professor of Neurological Surgery and Pathology at the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Here is how she describes the start of a great project: "It's really a building of ideas." Researchers pull from published literature, from their own experimental results, and from the data already out there. "And it's based on that that one makes a hypothesis."

But a hypothesis alone is not enough. The committee also asks what happens if that hypothesis turns out to be right. In her words: "Will it be able to help patients with cancer?"

That is the balance we look for. As Dr. Phillips puts it: "It's a high impact project and a discovery project, but it is based and rooted in solid science."

And the payoff is real. Those projects, she says, are "exactly the types of projects that then go on to receive additional funding and end up being really innovative and exciting projects."

Your support is what gets a bold idea to that starting line.

Give at tjmartell.org/ways-to-give

07/20/2026

July is Sarcoma Awareness Month, and we want you to meet one of the researchers you help support.

Dr. James Amatruda at Children's Hospital Los Angeles studies Ewing sarcoma, a cancer that affects children, adolescents, and young adults. Sarcomas are rare, making up less than 1% of all cancers but 15 to 20% of childhood cancers, which is exactly why this work is so urgent.

In his lab, Dr. Amatruda uses an inventive method. He implants human tumor cells into tiny, transparent zebrafish so his team can actually watch cancer cells travel through the body and spread. Because sarcoma becomes much harder to treat once it spreads, learning how that happens could change outcomes for kids everywhere.

Every gift to the T.J. Martell Foundation fuels discoveries like this. Thank you for helping us bring the music community together to cure cancer.

Donate or learn more at tjmartell.org.

07/02/2026

United by music. Driven by hope.

When our industry comes together, lives change. For five decades, the music community has funded bold, early stage cancer research, turning connection into progress and belief into breakthroughs.

Every person who shows up and gives is part of that promise. Join the mission: https://tjmartell.org/ways-to-give

06/29/2026

We can't wait to honor Coran Capshaw, founder of Red Light Management, with this year's Lifetime Music Industry Award at our 51st annual New York Honors Gala.

Join us Tuesday, September 15 at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City as we celebrate decades of remarkable dedication and philanthropic leadership.

Learn more at tjmartell.org/events-impact

06/24/2026

Proud to support the incredible work at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center. Through bold research and innovative care, they're helping move us closer to better treatments and a future without cancer.

Every breakthrough starts with the people willing to chase it, and we're honored to stand behind a team doing exactly that.

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