Give to Max for Music Mission

Music Mission is a non-profit located in  Saint Paul, Minnesota. We work between Minnesota and Mexico in arts programming, scholarships, instrument donations and basic needs support. 

We need your help to continue our work!

In 2025, our flagship Minnesota event , the Lakeside Guitar Festival, had a strong weekend of music. We offered 15 free shows, a community strum along, an improvisers waterfall stage featuring collaborations led by Al Church , inviting anyone to come and participate, Mark Whitfield Trio brought some incredibly high vibes to the pavilion as well as led a workshop at Walker West Music Academy, Mason Jennings sang his iconic songs and a record number of folks strum and sang along together. We had the captivating and brilliant Ehekatl Arizmendia from Mexico perfrom as well as pedal swap, and a whole bunch of other radical activities for Minnesotans of all ages, backgrounds and experiences.

Ehekatl Arizmendi 

 Outside of the 2025 festival, Music Mission granted 3 scholarships this year to musicians in need. 2 in Mexico and 1 in MN. Music Mission was happy to support Juan Lagunes with a micro-grant to help cover basic costs getting to his new gig after being selected as trumpeter for the JM Jazz World Orchestra, one of the most prestigious youth jazz orchestras in the world. Juan was able to tour Europe this past summer! We contributed to "The Daily Norm" in support of his first record while also having him kick off LGF this year.

 We also sent support to "Space XMAS" an independent  music festival in Los Cabos for their community initiatives and workshops with area youth. As well as She Rock She Rock, a Twin Cities nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering girls, women and gender-expansive folks through the art of music.

In Arts programming MN-MX we launched a new festival in CDMX "Downtown Guitar Festival". 3 days of awesome, inspiring music across 2 venues serving another powerful example of Music Mission’s work with communities between Minnesota and Mexico. 

Look for more of that in 2026 . We continue to work with groups, students and communities we have supported over the past 6 years providing classes, basic needs support, recordings, and more. Some of this work is up at Music Mission

Thank you for your support,

Todd & Molly