Feel the Music at VISIONS with teaching artist and master percussionist Bashiri Johnson. This culminating concert includes Francis Mbappe and Feel the Music! founder, Valerie Ghent, alongside Visions senior participants. Also features an interview with Ann De Shazo, LMSW, Director of the Visions Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired.
Join us for this very special benefit concert with Wool & Grant, Valerie Ghent & Amy Soucy – all proceeds to “Songwriting for Seniors”. Special guest MC John Platt of WFUV. DATE: Sunday, Feb 19, 2012 TIME: 3:00pm-5:30pm LOCATION: Le Cheile, 839 W. 181th St at Cabrini $15 contribution – all proceeds, including a portion of food/drink ordered during the concert, to Feel the Music! Senior Songwriting program About Feel the Music!: http://feelthemusic.org/ About Songwriting for Seniors: http://www.feelthemusic.org/new/feel-the-music-for-seniors RSVP on…
Singer-songwriter and Feel the Music! founder/director, Valerie Ghent, has been invited to speak at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music on Sunday, September 11th. The Conservatory is holding a special 9/11 Commemoration Event in honor of the 10th anniversary of September 11th, with an entire day of events, including two concerts, one at noon and the other at 3pm. Ms. Ghent will speak at 12pm, preceding a performance by The Brooklyn Art Song Society. Admission is FREE. Brooklyn Conservatory of Music…
9/11 Reflections – Public Art Project for People Who Live and Work in Lower Manhattan Displayed at the Battery’s Gardens of Remembrance on August 4th, 2011 On August 4, 2011, from 10:00am to 6:00pm, reflections about 9/11 written by over 200 New Yorkers will be displayed in a temporary public art installation in the historic Battery’s Gardens of Remembrance. The piece, “September 11th Tenth Anniversary Reflections“, is the culmination of a public art project created by the Tribute WTC Visitor…
Wonderful NY1 NEWS coverage about the 9/11 Reflections public art project. Hear what Meriam Lobel, curator from Tribute WTC Visitor Center, Feel the Music! founder Valerie Ghent and artist Tova Snyder and local residents and workers have to say.
Photos from the July 6, 2011 launch of the “9/11 Tenth Anniversary Reflections” public art project. You can watch the slideshow or click on any photo to read the captions in our gallery. Photos by Valerie Ghent; Peter Minuit Plaza, NYC.
(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.
Valerie Ghent to be Honored Dec. 9, 2005 Abrons Art Center, 466 Grand Street, NYC December 09, 2005 06:00 PM to 10:00 PM Valerie Ghent, Founder/Director of World Foundation for Music and Healing and its Feel the Music! program, will receive the Paul Ramos Award for Service to the Arts at the Betances Health Center Jazz Concert and Awards Ceremony on Friday, Dec. 9, at 8 pm at the Harry de Jur Playhouse at Abrons Art Center, 466 Grand St,…
