Dave Matthews, Trey Anastasio and Chris Stapleton all performed at Manhattan’s Cipriani on Tuesday night (Sept. 15) — but at the annual T.J. Martell Foundation New York Honors Gala, none of these stars were the headliner. Rather, it was the more than $3 million that the night’s attendees, who hailed from every corner of the music business, raised for the organization’s mission of cancer research.
Also above Matthews, Anastasio and Stapleton on the bill: Red Light Management founder Coran Capshaw, who represents all three musicians and received the lifetime music industry award at the event.
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“We’re here tonight to honor a truly remarkable leader in our industry, and a great friend of this foundation,” said REPUBLIC executive vp Steve Gawley, who serves as T.J. Martell’s chair of the board of trustees, at the start of the evening. “Coran Capshaw has built Red Light Management into a powerhouse through brilliant entrepreneurship and an unwavering commitment to his artists. But what makes Coran particularly worthy of being honored is what he has done with his success. You see, Coran gives back. Coran and his artists have an incredible spirit of philanthropy supporting so many worthy causes.”
The foundation, Gawley revealed, had broken the fundraising record it had set with the event in 2024 “and making this the most successful Martell gala in more than two decades.” Later, foundation vice chair Julie Swidler shared that the organization has raised more than $300 million to date for its cause.
Capshaw’s quiet, humble approach to philanthropy was a recurring theme of the night. In a charmingly improvised speech introducing the executive, Matthews joked about Capshaw’s understated, concise mannerisms — but soon turned to a more profound story. After “the Nazis came to town” for the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., where Capshaw and Matthews both hail from, “Coran said, ‘We have to do something,'” Matthews recalled.
“Within a month, we had a concert,” Matthews continued, detailing A Concert For Charlottesville, the September 2017 event Capshaw helped to assemble that featured Coldplay, Justin Timberlake, Ariana Grande, Stevie Wonder and several other icons. “Some of you that know us would know there was a concert, but a lot of people didn’t know, because it wasn’t in the papers, it wasn’t on TV. Because that was not the point. He wanted to do something that would be a healing thing for the town.”
Upon taking the stage, Capshaw, who famously prefers to stay behind the scenes, revealed that he was initially hesitate to accept the honor because of the spotlight it would place on him — but that he reconsidered after Brad Arnold, the singer for Red Light client 3 Doors Down, died of kidney cancer in February. “We all get hit by cancer,” he said, “whether it’s an artist we work with, whether ourselves, friends and family.
“We’re all here for Year One of the next 50,” he added, nodding to the evening being the 51st annual iteration of the event. “Hopefully we get some good breakthroughs along the way — but it’s a continual battle.”
Following Capshaw’s acceptance speech, Matthews, Anastasio and Stapleton each performed a two-song acoustic set — and appeared not only as musicians, but as respected philanthropists. Matthews founded his Bama Works Fund in 1999, Anastasio’s band Phish launched its Waterwheel Foundation in 1997 (and the musician created his own Divided Sky Foundation during the coronavirus pandemic) and Stapleton, along with his wife Morgane, runs the organization Outlaw State of Kind.
After remarking that “he did good,” Matthews played his classics “Save Me” and “Don’t Drink the Water.” (“I think he likes these songs — that’s why I’m playing them.”) Anastasio appeared next, performing the Phish’s heartfelt ballad “Waste” — “They should give another award to all of you for being that quiet,” he quipped afterward — and “More,” an uplifting, later-era song by the band. “There are two things he deeply loves,” Anastasio said of Coran. “Music and giving back.”
Stapleton echoed Matthews and Anastasio’s sentiments during his own set, where he played “Where Rainbows Never Die,” by his onetime band The SteelDrivers, and his iconic cover of Dean Dillon and Linda Hargrove’s “Tennessee Whiskey.”
At the start of the night, Gawley had reminded the crowd that the foundation’s “first principle is gratitude” — and that quality was on full display at T.J. Martell’s 51st annual gala.
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