🥀 Faye Carol - Sweet Relief: A Night To Honor Taj Mahal - "Please Send Me Someone To Love"

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Faye Carol sings a cover of the song "Please Send Me Someone To Love" live in concert before a sold-out crowd at the Masonic Auditorium in San Francisco, California on February 21, 2026. Please Send Me Someone To Love was originally released by Percy Mayfield in 1950 and reached Number 1 on the Billboard's R&B Chart. This was a special one-night benefit concert called Sweet Relief Presents: A Night To Honor Taj Mahal. The Sweet Relief Musicians Fund provides medical and vital living expenses to career musicians and music industry professionals. To donate, visit https://www.sweetrelief.org/general-fund.html. ======================= Official Show Announcement: Sweet Relief Musicians Fund has announced their annual benefit concert, celebrating the legacy of legendary blues musician Taj Mahal, on February 21, at Masonic Auditorium in San Francisco. Confirmed performers include Van Morrison, Stevie Van Zandt, George Thorogood, Patty Griffin, Jim Lauderdale, Will Hoge, Joe Henry, Ruby Amanfu, Bobby Rush, and Taj Mahal with surprise guests and additional performers to be announced shortly. Taj Mahal is an influential American blues musician whose career has spanned more than five decades, marked by a deep exploration of roots music from around the world. Emerging in the late 1960s, he helped redefine the blues by blending it with Caribbean, African, Hawaiian, and Latin influences, long before such fusion became common. His early albums, including Taj Mahal and The Natch’l Blues, set the tone for a career built on innovation, soulful vocals, and masterful multi-instrumentalism. Over the years, he has collaborated widely, earned multiple Grammy Awards, and become a revered figure for preserving tradition while expanding its boundaries. Taj Mahal’s work continues to inspire new generations of artists and listeners drawn to his global, joyful approach to the blues. “Thrilled to be honored by Sweet Relief and to celebrate with good feeling music," Taj Mahal shares, and continues, "Thank you Sweet Relief for all that you do and for bringing us together.” Aric Steinberg, Executive Director at Sweet Relief Musicians Fund adds, “What an incredible way to celebrate 32 years of Sweet Relief, by honoring the legendary Taj Mahal! This celebration is long overdue for such an acclaimed artist, and we are so grateful that he’s allowing us to bring these amazing artists together to bring the house down on February 21st. The February event is part of an ongoing series of shows presented by Sweet Relief Musicians Fund. It serves as a follow-up to 2025’s event celebrating Joan Baez which featured performances by Bonnie Raitt, Emmylou Harris, Joe Henry, Lucinda Williams, Margo Price, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Rosanne Cash, Taj Mahal, Tom Morello + special guests. Sweet Relief Musicians Fund provides services and financial assistance for career musicians and music industry professionals. Grants are earmarked for medical and vital living expenses, including insurance premiums, prescriptions, medical treatment and operative procedures, housing costs, food costs, utilities, and other basic necessities. ================== Faye Carol official bio: Faye Carol was born in Meridian, Mississippi. Blues has been the soundtrack to her childhood, becoming intimately connected with the music as a young girl in the train stations of 1950s segregated Mississippi and through her mother and uncles’ Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland and B.B. King records. She began to study the Blues while auditing music courses that were taught by her late husband at UC Berkeley. Through her studies and experiences working with passionate and talented blues musicians, Faye has been able to master the blues and pass along this vital tradition to the next generation of artists in her community. Blues is the traditional cultural expression of Black people in America. The art form originated in the post-slavery South with roots in work songs, spirituals, field hollers, and shouts. Formalized by W.C. Handy around the turn of the century, it is characterized by a three-chord harmonic structure and a 12 bar format, though other forms are also prevalent. During the 20th century the blues spread across the country, developing into regional styles in Chicago, California, Kansas City, and New Orleans. The art form is exemplified by instrumentalists and singers alike including such notable practitioners as B.B. King, Professor Longhair, Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland, Koko Taylor, Robert Johnson, and Muddy Waters. Faye describes Blues as a language, feeling, form, and a carrier of the history of a people including stories of joy, romance, sorrow, and protest. ==================== #sweetrelief #fayecarol #live #music #livemusic #concert #concertvideo #liveinconcert #charityshow #charityconcert #blues #bluessong #bluesmusic #bluesmusician #bluesvocals #bluessinger #percymayfield #1960sblues #60sblues #60smusic #rnb #rnbmusic #classicrnb #60srnb #rnbcover #sanfrancisco #sanfranciscomusic