AMFM is a nonprofit organization created in 2006 to provide temporary financial relief to professional Annapolis musicians who cannot work due to sickness, injury, or any other circumstance leaving them unable to perform.
This fund acts as an emergency relief fund for lost income. Since its founding, AMFM has grown to provide additional benefits to our local music community, including catastrophic relief and funding youth music programs in the form of scholarships and private lessons.
If you are an Annapolis musician or a musician who performs regularly in Annapolis, and you are in need of financial relief due to sickness, injury, or other circumstances, maybe AMFM can assist. To find out more about AMFM and see if you, as an artist, qualify for financial assistance, please visit our Benefits page to review our applications and to apply.
Annapolis, Maryland has one of the most vital, diverse, and exciting music scenes on the Eastern Seaboard. Annapolis offers live music entertainment seven nights a week, 365 days a year, in a variety of venues, in every musical genre, for all ages and tastes, for both locals and visitors to enjoy. Annapolis, Maryland is a thriving historic, recreation and tourist destination that profits tremendously from the many establishments that feature live music entertainment. This makes the musicians who live and work in Annapolis a valuable asset to the social, cultural and economic landscape of our community.
The hardworking musicians of Annapolis are continuously giving back to their community by helping to support and promote the local businesses and by participating in the many benefits and charity events held each year in the Annapolis area.
AMFM’s goal is to reciprocate that support by ensuring the musicians who work and perform in the Annapolis area can continue to maintain a quality of life during unexpected hardship that will keep them financially viable and the music in the city of Annapolis thriving.
As it has evolved over the years, AMFM has added benefits and grants to support the growth of live music in Annapolis and currently has the following five objectives:
- Provide temporary relief to musicians unable to work due to illness, injury, or other circumstances leaving them unable to perform. More information about the Lost Gig Fund can be found here.
- Provide assistance to musicians after catastrophic events. More information about the Catastrophic Fund can be found here.
- Fund music lessons for talented students at Bates Middle School Performing & Visual Arts Program and Naptown Sings!
- Fund a grant for a summer program to support underserved, creative youth.
- Fund a college scholarship for a high school senior who will major in music performance at a four-year institution as a freshman. More information on the scholarship, including an application, can be found here.
Matt McConville (Founder Emeritus)
Founder Emeritus of AMFM, is a twenty-five plus year local performer, musician, songwriter and writer of two novels.
P.J. Thomas (President)
Has been on the AMFM board since 2009. She has served as secretary, vice-president, and was elected president in January of 2023. Her love for music and especially the Annapolis music scene drew her to AMFM. A vocalist/guitarist, P.J. regularly performs in and around the Annapolis area. She often comments on how Annapolis musicians are like one big family—always looking out for each other and supporting one another.
Carolyn Krohn (Vice President)
was born in Annapolis and is a musician and an attorney. She sees, first-hand, the hardship that local musicians suffer. She is proud to be a board member of AMFM, which helps many people in the music community whom she knows personally.
Larry Byrne (Secretary)
Serves as AMFM’s secretary. He is a multi-instrumentalist who performs in several Annapolis-area bands and is a software engineer.
Sean O’Neill (Treasurer)
who is a financial advisor at RBC Wealth Management, has been serving on the AMFM board since its founding and is the organization’s treasurer. He has served as the entertainment chair of the Maryland Seafood Festival and music director for Easport-A-Rockin’.
Brian Cahalan
Is co-owner of 49 West Coffeehouse, Winebar and Gallery, which hosts regular art exhibits and live performance. An advocate in the creation of the Annapolis Arts District, he was involved in starting the First Sunday Arts Festival. He previously co-owned Acousticopia, a music store, and currently works in the Annapolis mayor’s office as an arts liaison.
Jeanette Kreuzburg
Jeanette Kreuzburg is a musician, voice teacher, studio session vocalist, performer, and art teacher originally from Baltimore, Maryland. In 2005, she adopted Annapolis, Maryland as her home. It was the incredible Annapolis music scene that that stole her heart and provided fertile ground for her growth and expansion as an artist.
Jeanette is the owner of Mastery Music and Arts, and teaches art, yoga and music classes for Wildhearts Academy and Maryland Hall Outreach program, Jovenes Artistas.
Michael Kocher
Michael Kocher (AKA Michael K.) has been a consumer of and contributor to the local Annapolis Music Scene since 1997 when he began DJing in downtown Annapolis on the weekends. He fell in love with the local music and the magical beings creating and performing it. A closeted songwriter and barely-mediocre guitar player, he gradually established himself as a respected songwriter and performer over the course of many, many years. Michael has been an ardent supporter of AMFM since its inception. He witnessed the founding of AMFM and, in the early years, created and maintained AMFM’s first website. To date, Michael has recorded and released dozens of original songs, some of which have been placed in television and motion picture projects. He’s maintained a 25-year collaborative friendship with master guitarist and producer, Todd Kreuzburg, and the two of them still enjoy writing and producing original music and performing acoustic duo gigs as well as full-band gigs with Michael K.’s band, Pretty Big Deal. When he’s not out playing live music somewhere, odds are you’ll find him applauding enthusiastically from the audience at other local artists’ gigs. His love and support of the Annapolis Music Scene is shared by his talented baker/artist wife, Asa, and his son, Lucas, and daughter, Cadence, who have both been known to perform with their dad on stage from time to time.
Jo Gilley
Born and raised in the Nashville, TN, area, Jo grew up listening to her parents sing and play guitar, sparking her lifelong love of music. Without a TV until age 8, vinyl records became her primary entertainment, further weaving music into the tapestry of her life. While Jo dabbles in guitar, she is more of a dancer at heart. A recent Anne Arundel County transplant in 2019, she loves the local music scene’s supportive nature. Married to local singer-songwriter Nate Whiting, Jo is thrilled to serve on the AMFM board, supporting and uplifting local musicians through AMFM’s programs.
- WHAT WE DO
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AMFM is a nonprofit organization created in 2006 to provide temporary financial relief to professional Annapolis musicians who cannot work due to sickness, injury, or any other circumstance leaving them unable to perform.
This fund acts as an emergency relief fund for lost income. Since its founding, AMFM has grown to provide additional benefits to our local music community, including catastrophic relief and funding youth music programs in the form of scholarships and private lessons.
If you are an Annapolis musician or a musician who performs regularly in Annapolis, and you are in need of financial relief due to sickness, injury, or other circumstances, maybe AMFM can assist. To find out more about AMFM and see if you, as an artist, qualify for financial assistance, please visit our Benefits page to review our applications and to apply.
Annapolis, Maryland has one of the most vital, diverse, and exciting music scenes on the Eastern Seaboard. Annapolis offers live music entertainment seven nights a week, 365 days a year, in a variety of venues, in every musical genre, for all ages and tastes, for both locals and visitors to enjoy. Annapolis, Maryland is a thriving historic, recreation and tourist destination that profits tremendously from the many establishments that feature live music entertainment. This makes the musicians who live and work in Annapolis a valuable asset to the social, cultural and economic landscape of our community.
The hardworking musicians of Annapolis are continuously giving back to their community by helping to support and promote the local businesses and by participating in the many benefits and charity events held each year in the Annapolis area.
AMFM’s goal is to reciprocate that support by ensuring the musicians who work and perform in the Annapolis area can continue to maintain a quality of life during unexpected hardship that will keep them financially viable and the music in the city of Annapolis thriving.
As it has evolved over the years, AMFM has added benefits and grants to support the growth of live music in Annapolis and currently has the following five objectives:
- Provide temporary relief to musicians unable to work due to illness, injury, or other circumstances leaving them unable to perform. More information about the Lost Gig Fund can be found here.
- Provide assistance to musicians after catastrophic events. More information about the Catastrophic Fund can be found here.
- Fund music lessons for talented students at Bates Middle School Performing & Visual Arts Program and Naptown Sings!
- Fund a grant for a summer program to support underserved, creative youth.
- Fund a college scholarship for a high school senior who will major in music performance at a four-year institution as a freshman. More information on the scholarship, including an application, can be found here.
- BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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Matt McConville (Founder Emeritus)
Founder Emeritus of AMFM, is a twenty-five plus year local performer, musician, songwriter and writer of two novels.
P.J. Thomas (President)
Has been on the AMFM board since 2009. She has served as secretary, vice-president, and was elected president in January of 2023. Her love for music and especially the Annapolis music scene drew her to AMFM. A vocalist/guitarist, P.J. regularly performs in and around the Annapolis area. She often comments on how Annapolis musicians are like one big family—always looking out for each other and supporting one another.
Carolyn Krohn (Vice President)
was born in Annapolis and is a musician and an attorney. She sees, first-hand, the hardship that local musicians suffer. She is proud to be a board member of AMFM, which helps many people in the music community whom she knows personally.
Larry Byrne (Secretary)
Serves as AMFM’s secretary. He is a multi-instrumentalist who performs in several Annapolis-area bands and is a software engineer.
Sean O’Neill (Treasurer)
who is a financial advisor at RBC Wealth Management, has been serving on the AMFM board since its founding and is the organization’s treasurer. He has served as the entertainment chair of the Maryland Seafood Festival and music director for Easport-A-Rockin’.
Brian Cahalan
Is co-owner of 49 West Coffeehouse, Winebar and Gallery, which hosts regular art exhibits and live performance. An advocate in the creation of the Annapolis Arts District, he was involved in starting the First Sunday Arts Festival. He previously co-owned Acousticopia, a music store, and currently works in the Annapolis mayor’s office as an arts liaison.
Jeanette Kreuzburg
Jeanette Kreuzburg is a musician, voice teacher, studio session vocalist, performer, and art teacher originally from Baltimore, Maryland. In 2005, she adopted Annapolis, Maryland as her home. It was the incredible Annapolis music scene that that stole her heart and provided fertile ground for her growth and expansion as an artist.
Jeanette is the owner of Mastery Music and Arts, and teaches art, yoga and music classes for Wildhearts Academy and Maryland Hall Outreach program, Jovenes Artistas.
Michael Kocher
Michael Kocher (AKA Michael K.) has been a consumer of and contributor to the local Annapolis Music Scene since 1997 when he began DJing in downtown Annapolis on the weekends. He fell in love with the local music and the magical beings creating and performing it. A closeted songwriter and barely-mediocre guitar player, he gradually established himself as a respected songwriter and performer over the course of many, many years. Michael has been an ardent supporter of AMFM since its inception. He witnessed the founding of AMFM and, in the early years, created and maintained AMFM’s first website. To date, Michael has recorded and released dozens of original songs, some of which have been placed in television and motion picture projects. He’s maintained a 25-year collaborative friendship with master guitarist and producer, Todd Kreuzburg, and the two of them still enjoy writing and producing original music and performing acoustic duo gigs as well as full-band gigs with Michael K.’s band, Pretty Big Deal. When he’s not out playing live music somewhere, odds are you’ll find him applauding enthusiastically from the audience at other local artists’ gigs. His love and support of the Annapolis Music Scene is shared by his talented baker/artist wife, Asa, and his son, Lucas, and daughter, Cadence, who have both been known to perform with their dad on stage from time to time.
Jo Gilley
Born and raised in the Nashville, TN, area, Jo grew up listening to her parents sing and play guitar, sparking her lifelong love of music. Without a TV until age 8, vinyl records became her primary entertainment, further weaving music into the tapestry of her life. While Jo dabbles in guitar, she is more of a dancer at heart. A recent Anne Arundel County transplant in 2019, she loves the local music scene’s supportive nature. Married to local singer-songwriter Nate Whiting, Jo is thrilled to serve on the AMFM board, supporting and uplifting local musicians through AMFM’s programs.
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