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Nashville Benefit Show Announced for Candice Ferguson, Wife of East Nashville Producer

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Candace Ferguson, pictured with her daughter. Photo via GoFundMe.

East Nashvilleโ€™s music community received dismalย news earlier this year when it learned that Candice Ferguson, wife of Battle Tapes Recording studioโ€™s proprietor and in-house producer Jeremy Ferguson, and mother to their youngย daughter, had been diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer.

A GoFundMe account has been established to help raise funds for the family, and you can make donations here. An update on the siteโ€™s page from earlier today reports that the cancer has spread to Candiceโ€™s brain and spine.

A numberย of benefit shows haveย been held in Nashville to help raise funds, andย a forthcoming May 12 benefitย at The Basement East will feature performances by Character (a long-defunct Nashville post-rock band that includes William Tyler) and The Features.

Battle Tapes Recording, an analog and digital studio, has played an integral role in the development of Nashvilleโ€™s now internationally renowned DIY-rock and roll scene. Some of the many acts that have cut records there include Tristen, Hard Working Americans, Josh Rouse, Thelma and the Sleaze, PUJOL, Lambchop, and Steelism.

UPDATE: April 17. It was announced on the GoFundMe page that Candice passed away on the morning of April 17. You can still make donations to the family via the site.ย