Hello Melon Jelly friends, family, and fans, we can’t thank you enough for your support over the past few years! We never imagined our little band from SETX would end up playing stages across the country with our songs filling the airwaves around the world!

After winning the Houston Blues Challenge in 2024 and competing as Quarterfinalists in the 2025 International Blues Challenge in Memphis, TN, we self-released and promoted our debut CD The Road to Memphis. We’re still amazed at the reception our homegrown CD from SETX received, from great reviews in international publications like Blues Matters Magazine, Blues Blast Magazine, La Hora del Blues, and more, to claiming the #15 spot on the Billboard Blues Albums Chart and climbing to the upper reaches of international charts like the IBBA in the UK, the ABARAC chart in Australia, and the Big Blues Chart in Canada. Doc’s Blues in the UK even named us their 2025 Band of the Year! We've performed on stages from the House of Blues in Houston and Dallas to Coyote Ugly in Memphis and too many points in between to name, logging thousands of miles together as a band. We know these incredible opportunities we have been afforded to sing, play, write, record, and in general do what we love in venues big and small wouldn’t be there without YOU! Now we’re looking to take the next step and are once again asking for your help. 

We’re excited to announce our second CD of all original Melon Jelly tunes is almost complete! We’re finishing some vocals and have some exciting extras (like horns) to record, then Benton Nesmith will again apply his mixing magic to add the finishing touches on what we think is an even better record than our first. We can’t let all the details out of the bag yet, but we’ve been offered a fantastic opportunity to kick off our release with a little mini-tour running from Tennessee to LouisianA and then back home to TX in January. 

Predictably, there is a lot of expense involved in not only releasing an album, but also taking a full band on the road for a week. To make the most of this opportunity and take the next step towards what we hope will be a bright future making the music we love, we need to press lots of CDs, arrange some extra promotion, secure merchandise, and book travel plans for the New Year. 

To that end, we are asking for your help. We are looking for friends, family and fans to help sponsor our trip and CD release, and we’d like to offer some incentives in return.

$10.00 Sponsorship - Social Media shoutout from the band and a download of your choice from our existing music catalog. 

$25.00 Sponsorship - T-Shirt, Social Media shoutout from the band, and a download of your choice from our existing music catalog.

$50.00 Sponsorship - T-Shirt & Autographed Hard Copy of CD.

$100.00 Sponsorship - T-Shirt, Autographed Hard Copy of CD, and Video shoutout on Social Media

$500.00 Sponsorship - Private House Concert (90 min), T-Shirt, Autographed Hard Copy of CD, and Video shoutout on Social Media

$1000.00 Sponsorship - Private House Concert (3 hour), T-Shirt, Autographed Hard Copy of CD, and Video shoutout on Social Media

All donations of any size are greatly appreciated!!

Thank you for your support of Melon Jelly, The Blues, and original music!!