This is an article featured in the Forward FOCUS Summer 2021 publication by FiftyForward Telling Our Stories By Sarah Martin McConnell “Sarah, you have to come get mother” said Priscilla my sister when we finally connected after hours of dead phone my lines. Hurricane Katrina had just pummeled the Mississippi […]
Here’s a wonderful feature story highlighting Music for Seniors’ work! Joy, Laughter – and Music – are the Best Medicine for Area Seniors appears prominently in the 2019 Report to the Community from Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee, published November, 2020. We are grateful to be a recipient of funding from The Hunter Armistead Fund to Inspire
Dear friends, It is fitting that today, on the 155th anniversary of Juneteenth, Music for Seniors pauses to lift its voice in joining the world’s cry, that Black Lives Matter. We mourn and protest the injuries and deaths of individuals everywhere who have – and continue to be – victims
The annual giving day The Big Payback is returning on Wednesday, May 5! The fun starts at 6:00 PM and continues until 6:00 PM on May 6. Music for Seniors is excited to participate and join in on the fundraising event that unites Middle Tennessee each year. The Big Payback,
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We trust everyone is adhering to the “Stay safe, stay at home” mandates in our communities. It is important that we all heed the call and practice careful social isolation at this time to do our part in flattening the curve of this crazy virus. And, as Music for Seniors
Sarah Martin McConnell engages her TEDx audience in a sing-along to demonstrate how live music benefits us all. She shares her personal journey which led her to found Music for Seniors in 2007, along with music making research highlights involving brain plasticity – including how making music trains the ear
by John Yang and Leah Nagy John Yang of PBS interviewsMusic for Seniors participants and learns how the group connects people through live music – and how measuring its effects, with the help of Vanderbilt University researchers, may benefit all of us. See the PBS News Hour segment here
