Garrett Young Collective

Los Angeles, CA --- Back by popular demand, The Garrett Young Collective will be performing once again in Santa Fe. Garrett Young, an award winning young artist who is burning up three charts ---- AC, Top40 and Country --- with his single “My Friend,” will be returning to Boxcar Saturday, February 2.

His first single, "Do You Hear My Cries," zoomed up the national charts hitting #1 at National Radio Hits, New Music Weekly and the Independent Music Network where he won IMN's coveted 2017 Favorite Male Artist of the Year Award and a New Music Award for 2017 Top40 New Artist of the Year. Garrett’s second single release from his The Garrett Young Collective CD, "My Oh My," raced up the charts too, hitting the top spot again at NRH, NMW and IMN. Currently, his third single from the CD, “My Friend,” hit #1 and in January, Garrett was awarded The Independent Music Network’s Crossover Artist of the Year award.

Billed as The Garrett Young Collective, his sister Callie Young, will also be performing at Boxcar. Callie, too, recently won an Independent Music Network award for Country Song of the Year, “Bittersweet Memories.”

Garrett Young, who calls Durango, Colorado home, will have his CD, The Garrett Young Collective, available for purchase at the venue. A percentage of the profits will be donated to The Grief Center of Southwest Colorado. Garrett has already made a sizable donation to this charity which is near and dear to his heart.

Show time for The Garrett Young Collective is 9:30 PM, at Boxcar, Saturday, February 2.

For more information on Garrett Young go to:
www.garrettyoungmusic.com

Publicity Contact:
Debi Fee
FAF Media Group
310-877-9006
FAFMEDIA@aol.com

Radio Promotion:
Larry Weir
National Record Promotion
323-658-7449
lweir@larryweir.com - Deb Fee FAF Media Group

For Bayfield resident and alternative/indie musician Garrett Young, the topic of suicide hits close to home.

“It’s the fifth time in my life that people close to us have taken their lives,” the 24-year-old said. “It’s got to stop, essentially.”

As a way to help, Young is donating money from sales of his debut album, “The Garrett Young Collective,” to the Grief Center of Southwest Colorado. Initially, he was donating 20 percent of album profits to the center, but a recent suicide motivated him to do more – he’s donating 100 percent.

The Grief Center offers a wide variety of support for those experiencing grief in their life, including individual and group therapy, support groups and community resources on grief, loss and trauma-informed care.

The center also has bereavement specialists available.

“They’re really great people, and I found out about them from the last time we went through something like this,” Young said. “They’re grief counselors, and they go on site and they’re amazing people. They help the families cope.”

Young said he will continue to donate the profits “for as long as I feel like I’ve made a good chunk of money I can give to them.”

He said so far, the campaign has been successful, and that the majority of CD sales have come from his live performances.

“At the gigs, I mentioned that I was doing that, and I had a bunch of people come up and buy CDs,” he said. “They were giving 20 bucks instead of 10 bucks, and it was really amazing.”

For Young, it’s all about raising awareness of a problem that only seems to be growing in frequency.

“It’s one of the hardest things in the world to understand because you look at some of the really successful people that have taken their own lives and you compare that to (an 11-year-old) – what are the common denominators between an 11-year-old and Chris Cornell? It’s so hard to really know,” he said. “More than anything, I just want awareness and prevention and to somehow make people feel like (they’re) not alone.” - Durango Herald