Welcome!

    We're an Oregon-based foundation dedicated to spreading the Joy and Healing Power of Music and Theater, and we're glad you found us. Formed to help with the recovery of New Orleans following hurricanes Katrina and Rita, we believe that Music, and especially Jazz, can, and does, serve as a model for how we can better get along with each other despite our race, class, gender, religion, or lifestyle differences. We further believe that by understanding and creating musical Harmony, we not only demonstrate, but actually create more political, social, familial, gender, and spiritual Harmony.
    We began our mission in 2005 to assist in the recovery effort by collecting donated instruments and distributing them to musicians in need. In 2007 we switched our focus to giving free music instruction to disadvantaged youth, and from 2008 to 2011 our main emphasis has been accepting donated pianos, using them to teach piano repair and tuning skills to anyone interested in learning, and then re-selling or giving them away to schools, churches, clubs, community centers, businesses, and individuals.
    Today we are changing yet again, focusing on using Music and Theater to help people through the grieving process. We have recorded a CD "Songs For The Living: A Musical Journey Through Grief" as a musical companion piece to go with a DVD of the play DRIVE, written by our Founder and Director, peter spring. DRIVE is a 48-minute one act play recounting an actual experience that happened to peter during the course of grieving the loss of his son Steven to cancer, and that he found profoundly beneficial to his own healing. We will continue to help the people of New Orleans by referring those who are looking for a piano--or who need moving, tuning, and/or repair services--to 2 of our former apprentices who are now in business for themselves, but we are excited about our new direction.
    As the baby-boom population ages, there is an increasing need for help with the coping skills necessary to deal with the losses caused by disease and death, and we firmly believe that Music and Theater can offer not only real comfort to those in sorrow, but can also serve as a model and template for creating a healthier, more balanced and deeply satisfying life and future for all. We sincerely hope that you will join us in the present on our journey to that better future.

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