Musical Arts

Feel the Music! Songwriting for Seniors Spring 2012

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…

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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! 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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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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Songwriter’s Beat – Feel the Music! Song Contest!

Feel the Music! is CALLING ALL SONGWRITERS! Enter your song for a chance to win some awesome prizes and have your song heard by Grammy Award winning producers! Submission Deadline: June 27, 2010 Cost: $10 for the first song; $5 for any additional songs Benefit: All the submission fees support Feel the Music! Each song you submit will help bring music to children and families impacted by trauma, loss or illness. Prizes: $1,000 Martin Guitar, $750 Kala Ukelele, $250 Shure…

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9/11 School Recovery Program booklet features Feel the Music!

In 2009, the 9/11 School Recovery Program published, “How We Healed”, a review of the many programs and people who came together to assist lower Manhattan schools, students, teachers and social workers after September 11th. Feel the Music! was honored to be able to provide after-school workshops in percussion and songwriting to students in several schools

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