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Feel the Music! at Bailey’s Cafe
February 28, 2013 | Art, Musical Arts, News, Seniors Feel the Music! and Bailey’s Cafe join hands to bring seniors and young people together in the arts.

Beginning February, 2013, Feel the Music! brings arts programming to Bailey’s Cafe in Brooklyn, where young people and seniors exchange experiences and ideas through music and art projects. Youth (ages 8-17) and seniors learn to sing together, write songs, make art with one another, and facilitate meaningful bonds between generations.

FREE for participants.

Feel the Music! Exchanging Experiences: Two generations making music and art together.

Bailey’s Cafe
Fort Greene Council Stuyvesant Heights Senior Center
69 MacDonough Street
Brooklyn, NY 11213

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Feel the Music! Sandy Relief
December 4, 2012 | Art, Musical Arts, News, Sandy Feel the Music! launches arts program for communities impacted by Hurricane Sandy:

What a devastating fall we have been through together. The ongoing aftermath of Hurricane Sandy is heart-wrenching, as is the knowledge that it will continue to be felt by so many in the weeks and months ahead.

Here at Feel the Music! we are quickly developing a program to bring music, art and creative self-expression directly into the communities most impacted by the storm. With FtM Sandy Relief Arts, we will begin serving families, schools and senior centers impacted by Sandy in 2013.

To bring Feel the Music! to your community, please contact our Program Director, Lucia Lezama.

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Feel the Music! Songwriting for Seniors – Fall 2012
September 28, 2012 | Musical Arts, Seniors Announcing our Feel the Music! “Songwriting for Seniors” workshops this fall! We are delighted to kick off October bringing Singing and Songwriting to members of Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, at St. Peter’s Church.

Starting October 5, 2012, Feel the Music! will bring weekly songwriting workshops to seniors at Lenox Hill with renowned songwriting instructors Ina May Wool and Thomas Boyd. This free songwriting workshop series runs for 10 Fridays, culminating in a public concert. Save the date now – December 14th – and plan to join us!

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) and individual donors. Thank you for your support!

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Exposed on the Cliffs of the Heart…
September 11, 2012 | 9/11 All of us at Feel the Music! would like to take a moment to remember and honor the lives tragically lost 11 years ago; to send our love to the many they left behind; and to express our gratitude to those who courageously worked in the rescue and recovery efforts.

On this anniversary we are also reminded that the past 11 years have turned children into adults, strangers into friends, and individuals into strong communities.

We would like to share a poem that speaks to us on this day:

Exposed on the Cliffs of the Heart

Exposed on the cliffs of the heart. Look how tiny down there,
look: the last village of words and, higher,
(but how tiny) still one last
farmhouse of feeling. Can you see it?
Exposed on the cliffs of the heart. Stoneground
under your hands. Even here, though,
something can bloom; on a silent cliff-edge
an unknowing plant blooms, singing, into the air.
But the one who knows? Ah, he began to know
and is quiet now, exposed on the cliffs of the heart.
- Rainer Maria Rilke

 

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Feel the Music! at VISIONS
July 12, 2012 | Concert, Musical Arts, Seniors Feel the Music! launched a new program this spring at VISIONS! Renowned percussionists Bashiri Johnson and Gary Fritz taught weekly percussion workshops for the blind and visually impaired at VISIONS, engaging participants in rhythms and hand techniques. By the end of the workshop each participant could solo on their own drum! The series culminated in a wonderful concert, featuring all participants, on June 27th. 

Congratulations to all our new DRUMMERS!

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and by the LMCC Fund for Creative Communities.

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Feel the Music! Songwriting for Seniors Spring 2012
March 12, 2012 | Concert, Musical Arts, Seniors We are thrilled to announce our spring 2012 schedule for Songwriting for Seniors at Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, at St. Peter’s Church.

Starting March 29, 2012, Feel the Music! will bring weekly songwriting workshops to seniors at Lenox Hill with renowned songwriting instructors Ina May Wool and Thomas Boyd. This free songwriting workshop series, will run for 12 Thursdays, culminating in a public concert.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

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Feel the Music! fundraiser concert w/ Wool & Grant, Valerie Ghent, Amy Soucy – Feb 19, 2012
February 3, 2012 | Concert, Fundraising

Join us for this very special benefit concert with Wool & Grant, Valerie Ghent & Amy Soucy - all proceeds to "Songwriting for Seniors". Special guest MC John Platt of WFUV.

DATE: Sunday, Feb 19, 2012

TIME: 3:00pm-5:30pm

LOCATION: Le Cheile, 839 W. 181th St at Cabrini

$15 contribution - all proceeds, including a portion of food/drink ordered during the concert, to Feel the Music! Senior Songwriting program

About Feel the Music!: http://feelthemusic.org/

About Songwriting for Seniors: http://www.feelthemusic.org/feel-the-music-for-seniors

RSVP on our Facebook event

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UPDATE: Feel the Music! Press
December 16, 2011 | 9/11, News If you missed the dozens of news stories and radio/TV interviews this past summer which covered our partnered 9/11 Reflections project and 2-day installation in Battery Park’s Gardens of Remembrance, we’ve updated our Press page with links to articles by CBS News, NY1, WFUV, Tribeca Tribune, El Diario, Epoch Times and more! Tags: , , , , , , , ,
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Feel the Music! 9/11 Reflections project in Public Art Review
December 7, 2011 | 9/11, Art, News, Press We are thrilled to share that our “9/11 Reflections” Public Art Project is featured in the current issue of Public Art Review.       Tags: , , ,
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NYC Master Chorale 9/11 Concert to Benefit Feel the Music!
September 8, 2011 | Concert, Events, Fundraising, News, Uncategorized On Saturday, September 10, 2011, 3 pm, at Church of St. Paul the Apostle (60th and Columbus), NYC Master Chorale will perform a 9/11 Remembrance Concert with the Empire City Men’s Chorus.

NYC Master Chorale will sing Paul Leavitt’s Requiem and donations will be collected for Feel the Music!, a non-profit founded in the aftermath of 9/11 that uses music to bring healing to trauma survivors.

Please join us for this very special concert performance.

Feel the Music! extends tremendous thanks to Thea Kano, Artistic Director of NYC Master Chorale, Marion Wise, Vice-Chair, Board of Trustees NYC Master Chorale, Sean Robinson and the entire NYC Master Chorale for their support of Feel the Music!.

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