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Interview with our Concert Artist Extraordinaire, Matt Davich
“I'm really thankful to be a Music for Seniors musician and give of my time when I can. I'm thankful that they support me as a musician, and I'm thankful to be part of the Music for Seniors community and to be trusted in that bridge building process,” Brazil sums. “I love when music crosses over barriers, whether that’s geographical, generational, language or socio-economic barriers. To be able to be involved with a generational barrier connection and to be able to cross that bridge is just so special to me.” Read more about Alison Brazil in this full interview.
Interview with our Musician Partner Extraordinaire, Alison Brazil
“I'm really thankful to be a Music for Seniors musician and give of my time when I can. I'm thankful that they support me as a musician, and I'm thankful to be part of the Music for Seniors community and to be trusted in that bridge building process,” Brazil sums. “I love when music crosses over barriers, whether that’s geographical, generational, language or socio-economic barriers. To be able to be involved with a generational barrier connection and to be able to cross that bridge is just so special to me.” Read more about Alison Brazil in this full interview.
Celebrating 15 Years! A Note from Sarah
“Sharing live music, lighting up lives!” for 15 years? “WooHOO!” is dang right!
Now I want to share future plans for myself and for Music for Seniors as we transition into the future. Check out the full note from Sarah!
YouTube Channel still features Virtual Outreach Programs
The Music for Seniors YouTube Channel still features all of the wonderful Virtual Outreach Programs our Musician Partners recorded for our senior constituents across the country during the pandemic plus more.
Click below and choose from dozens of programs featuring lots of talented artists bringing music to you, as if they are right there with you. Fun, engaging and FREE! Go to our YouTube channel
Mardi Gras & Irish music in March!
Our Musician Partners deliver lively March Outreach programs of Dixieland for Mardi Gras & Irish for St. Paddy’s Day celebrations!
Spring – and music – are in the air! Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? Our Outreach participants will certainly know when they celebrate Mardi Gras with live New Orleans-style Dixieland. A bit of luck o’ the Irish will also shine for them […]
Special feature: How Music for Seniors came to be
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 Gulf […]
UPDATE: Programming Response to the Pandemic
Oct 1, 2020 Report
Since March, Music for Seniors has pivoted our Outreach and Learning Labs to virtual programming. With restrictions lifted in June, we resumed live onsite programs, first via socially-distanced Courtyard Concerts. In October we will resume facilitating indoor onsite live programs, with our Musician Partners (MPs) continuing to follow strict distancing and mask-wearing guidelines and adhering to each location’s health safety mandates.
To date: 27 Virtual Outreach Programs (VOPs) delivered – […]
Juneteenth Message from our Executive Director
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 of racism, intolerance and violence. George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and now Rayshard Brooks – all recent names added to […]
TEDx Nashville invites McConnell to present a TED Talk on December 6 (17:18)
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 to help us separate speech from background noise, especially later in life.
Knoxville Launched
Our first chapter, Music for Seniors Knoxville, launched on August 20, 2019 with an inaugural concert at the Knoxville Museum of Art. We also welcomed Carole Zinavage Shane as our Knoxville Program Coordinator.
You can read more about Carol here.