Maren Morris Will Donate Proceeds From Her Upcoming Show to GLAAD
Singer-songwriter Maren Morris is putting her money where her mouth is when it comes to standing up for the LGBTQ community.
On Wednesday (Sept. 20), Morris announced a special show to celebrate the release of her new EP The Bridge, featuring singles “The Tree” and “Get the Hell Out of Here.” Taking to the first stage she ever played in Chicago at Joe’s On Weed Street on Oct. 5, the singer is donating $5 from every ticket sale to LGTBQ advocacy group GLAAD.
This won’t be the first time Morris has worked with the organization; in 2022, when the singer teamed up with GLAAD to raise money through the release of multiple pieces of merch. Her “Lunatic Country Music Person” T-shirt — referencing a jab toward her made by former Fox News host Tucker Carlson — helped raise more than $150,000 for LGBTQ charities, including GLAAD’s Transgender Media Program. This year, the GLAAD Media Awards honored Morris with their Excellence in Media award for her outspoken allyship.
Tickets to the show are available exclusively to the Lunatics, the new name of Morris’ fan club. (She announced the name change in a Sept. 18 Instagram post, saying that she was embracing Tucker’s “silly little insult.”) Starting Wednesday and through Thursday (Sept. 21) at 11:59 p.m. CST, Lunatics can sign up for an on-sale code, which they will receive at 10 a.m. CST on Friday (Sept. 22). Sign up to Morris’ fan club for a chance to get tickets here.
With her new EP The Bridge, Morris announced that she would be leaving country music behind in an interview with The Los Angeles Times, stating that she couldn’t be a part of the political direction the genre was heading. “[The Trump years] revealed who people really were and that they were proud to be misogynistic and racist and homophobic and transphobic. All these things were being celebrated, and it was weirdly dovetailing with this hyper-masculine branch of country music. I call it butt rock,” she said. “I thought I’d like to burn it to the ground and start over. But it’s burning itself down without my help.”
In an open letter published with Billboard’s Pride cover story in June, Morris hinted at her departure from the genre. “I’m getting out of the sort of game of being the hall monitor of country music, even if I’m probably setting myself up for failure,” she said. “I cannot look at the bad apples anymore. I’m done giving into what they want, which is attention.”
See her show announcement below:
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