Lullaby for Columbine, Love Endures is the name of a benefit CD released in 1999 shortly after the Columbine High School massacre where twelve students and a teacher were murdered by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold before they committed suicide.
The name is synonymous with both the title cut featured on the album and the non-profit organization that produced it, whose full name is "The Lullaby for Columbine Project."
The CD features several notable artists including Rachael Lampa, Taylor Mesplé, and Adrian Belew, among others.
Music from the CD has been aired worldwide and has been featured on NBC's Today Show with Katie Couric.
Together they wanted to dedicate a song he had written for her years earlier and produce a single of it with a name change from its original title, "Nina's Lullaby", to help raise funds to benefit the victims of the Columbine tragedy.
By mid-1999, the project mushroomed into a full CD consisting of 17 songs written and recorded by both local and national artists including Adrian Belew - (King Crimson, Frank Zappa, David Bowie, Talking Heads), and Christian artists Rick Altizer, Danny Oertli, and Rachael Lampa, whose singing career launched shortly thereafter.
Produced by Jason Hickman, the song received much national airplay and alone raised nearly a half-million dollars for the Columbine victims.
Christian songwriter and artist, Brad Richardson wrote "A Colorado Columbine", also featured on the CD.
Just as the Project's production team was ending its talent acquisition phase, a final song titled, "We Will Always Remember" that had been independently produced by Taylor Mesplé, was added, which featured Christian artist Rachael Lampa, then 14 years old and undiscovered.
Taylor Mesplé also sang with Lampa along with Sydney Hostetler and the late Winston Ford (Earth, Wind & Fire, The Drifters).
Within weeks of its inception, the Project garnered more than a quarter of a million dollars of support through in-kind donations from large corporations such as Sony Disc Manufacturing, Musicland and the National Digital Television Center to facilitate nearly all production, manufacturing and distribution phases of the record project.
The cover art, which contributed to the unique appeal of the CD's branding, was illustrated by the well-known American artist, Drew Struzan.
The piece was originally created by Struzan through Art for the Heart Foundation, which helped cover expenses for the production of a limited edition poster of the original art that was given to the students of Columbine High School.
On the tenth anniversary of the tragedy and the organization's existence, Struzan commented, "Ten years...is life so short?
The core leadership of the Project is Michael Tamburello, Executive Director/Producer; Earl and Robert Berglund, owners of Penguin Digital, a CD production company; Dan Barnhart, who at that time was a partner of Barnhart/CMI; and concert promoter, Erin McNamara, who joined the team nine months later and brought unique solutions to project funding and distribution logistics.
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