Dust-to-Digital Foundation
As of 2023, we have digitized more than 50,000 recordings on location at the homes of some of the world’s most prominent record collectors.
Our goal is to build a database complete with audio, discographical information, artist and composer biographies, song lyrics and notation. Our hope for this database is that it will serve as a musical Rosetta Stone for future generations by showing the links and cross-influences of the many musical styles captured on phonograph records in the first half of the 20th century.
While steps are being made in the preservation component of our non-profit work, we are increasing our efforts to educate the public about and promote interest in historic and traditional American and international music via projects like the Voices of Mississippi multimedia live tour. Earlier this year, Music Memory’s board of directors voted to change the name of the organization to the Dust-to-Digital Foundation. It also voted in favor of incorporating outreach initiatives like the Voices of Mississippi live show into the non-profit’s work. The goal for the tour will remain the same to produce a high-quality show and offer personal workshops and film screenings while compensating the artists very well and covering all of their travel and daily expenses in order to bring the experience to as many people around the world as possible.
Any contribution that you can make will go toward facilitating that vision and keeping the legacies of the musicians represented in the "Voices of Mississippi" show alive. It will also help sustain our social media outreach which enriches many people's daily lives and help facilitate a database to ensure that historic recordings will be available to future listeners.