Ellen Schmidt Videos

This channel hosts videos in honor of Ellen Farber Schmidt (1938-2024) who dedicated her life to encouraging and promoting musicians in the Boston area.

Ellen was a force in the local music scene. There are hundreds of performers, including some who went on to become professional musicians, who played in front of an audience for the first time or played their first feature set one of Ellen’s open mikes, or who played their first full length set at one of the venues that she booked over the years, or who worked on their first song at the songwriting groups that she held at her house. Many all of the above.

Everyone who knew her loved Ellen and it’s basically impossible to list all of the ways that Ellen impacted the local music community. 

If you would like to honor Ellen’s memory, please consider donating to The Ellen Farber Schmidt Fund for Cancer Research and Patient Treatment, set up by her family to honor Ellen: 
http://danafarber.jimmyfund.org/goto/EllenFarberSchmidt