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Thank you to Music Over Manhattan, Wool&Grant & Bashiri Johnson

We send tremendous thank yous to Music Over Manhattan for hosting and organizing such a wonderful benefit concert with Sloan Wainwright on May 22nd, 2011. All proceeds raised will go to support the Feel the Music! Songwriting for Seniors program – we plan to use some of the funding to record songs written by seniors in recent months! And thanks to Wool&Grant – Ina May Wool and Bev Grant – for their musical performance and lending their voices and guitars…

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Songwriting for Seniors Concert

You’re invited! Please come to this delightful public concert and listen to songs written in our Feel the Music! Songwriting for Seniors workshop series this spring. At this culminating concert, to be held at the York Theatre on June 20th at 1pm, participants will perform their original works for friends, family and one another. Open to the public. FREE. All members of the Lenox Hill Senior Center at St. Peter’s Church and friends welcome! This program is supported, in part,…

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Feel the Music! fundraiser concert with Sloan Wainwright – May 22, 2011

Music Over Manhattan is very proud to present a special benefit performance by acclaimed singer, songwriter and spellbinder SLOAN WAINWRIGHT. Sloan is performing to benefit “Stories We Can Tell,” a songwriting course for seniors offered by Feel The Music! and taught by Thomas Boyd and Ina May Wool. The afternoon begins with brief samples of senior writing, then an opening set by WOOL&GRANT, Ina May’s new duo with Bev Grant. And the featured artist: SLOAN WAINWRIGHT, with guitarist/singer/songwriter VITO PETROCCITTO,…

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Feel the Music! Songwriting for Seniors – Spring 2011

Feel the Music! brings songwriting workshops to the Lenox Hill Senior Center at St. Peter’s Church with renowned songwriting instructors Ina May Wool and Thomas Boyd. This free songwriting workshop series, titled Stories We Can Tell, starts Monday, April 4th and runs for 12 Mondays through June 6th. See dates below for specifics. Classes are held 11am-12pm each week and culminate in a public concert on June 20th at 1pm. Classes: 4/4, 4/11, 4/18; 4/25, 5/2, 5/9; 5/16, 5/23, 5/30,…

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New Website for Feel the Music!

Welcome to our brand-new website! Come on in, make yourself at home, take a look around – we have so much to share: Program descriptions, Teacher bios, a Gallery of songs, videos and artwork created by Feel the Music! participants & students, Event listings, News, our online Store and

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Feel the Music! Launches Mural Project

In keeping with our mission of providing a space for creative expression, Feel the Music! has launched the Mural Project, a nine-month visual art project to create a group of murals commemorative of the upcoming 10th anniversary of September 11th. In an effort to pay homage to the past, and thinking towards the future, families who lost a loved one on 9/11 are invited to come and join the project on a bi-monthly basis between the months of October 2010…

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Feel the Music! Fall Retreat

Feel the Music! goes to the country! Come join us on this fun-filled trip to Dressel Farms in New Paltz, NY. Pick your own apples and pumpkins, go on a hayride, play in the maze or just enjoy the crisp October air as we sing in the mountains. Open to 9/11 families and Feel the Music! participants.

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Feel the Music! Songwriting for Seniors – Fall 2010

Feel the Music! brings songwriting workshops to the Lenox Hill Senior Center at St. Peter’s Church with renowned songwriting instructors Ina May Wool and Thomas Boyd. This free songwriting workshop series starts Monday, Sept 13th and runs for 12 Mondays through November 29th. See dates below for specifics. Classes are held 10:45am-11:45am each week and culminate in a public concert on December 13th at 1pm.

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Feel the Music! goes to Belfast, Northern Ireland

(July 12, 2010, New York, NY) This August NYC nonprofit Feel the Music! will go to Belfast, Northern Ireland, to bring music and healing to 75 teens from around the world who have lost a family member in a terrorist act. For the first time, Feel the Music! will offer music programming overseas, through an ongoing collaboration with Project Common Bond, a weeklong summer camp started by 9/11 partner organization, Tuesday’s Children.

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