Want to help an out-of-work Boise musician? Donate here. Or drink this beer.

When the coronavirus arrived, Boise went silent.

Live music dried up overnight, from concert halls to coffeehouses. Musicians suddenly found themselves without a source of income.

Treefort Music Fest, which had to be delayed until September, wants to help.

Toting cases of a philanthropic new beer, it’s launched the Treefort Live Music Relief Fund.

The emergency initiative will provide financial help to Treasure Valley residents whose main source of income comes from the music industry: musicians, audio and lighting engineers, techs, tour managers, production managers and more.

Interested in donating money? Information is at treefortmusicfest.com/live-music-relief-fund.

Rather drink beer? Look for cans of House Show on shelves. All proceeds from the beer, available soon at both Boise Co-op locations and Bittercreek Alehouse, will go to the relief fund.

Brewed by Mother Earth Beer Co. in Nampa, House Show will be sold in four-packs of 16-ounce cans. Official description: “House Show is a ridiculously smooth, unfiltered IPA coming in at just 25 IBUs, and brewed with a dash of lactose in the vein of a Northeast-style hazy. Though paying respects to its hazy cohorts in smoothness and lower bitterness, the beer drinks much differently, finishing clean rather than murky. House Show showcases the fruity hop characteristics of El Dorado, Mosaic, Amarillo and Cashmere.”

Translation: This beer rocks — on multiple levels. Formerly called Fresh AF, it was intended to be brewed for last month’s Alefort beer celebration at Treefort.

More than 100 cases of House Show will be available in the Boise market, but don’t wait around to buy it. “It’ll sell out quick,” Mother Earth founder Daniel Love predicts, “because it’s a great beer.”

Beer and cash donations aren’t the only ways that Treefort intends to crank up its Live Music Relief Fund. Others are still to be determined, the organization says.

Treefort has stayed busy since delaying its annual March festival because of COVID-19. The festival also is one of the founding partners of City of Good, a grass-roots effort to provide meals to those in need and put Idaho restaurant employees back to work.