Music to Life

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Activist Musician Accelerator

A ground-breaking collaboration among activist artists, social service organizations and community organizations to deepen the impact of innovative, music-driven programming - the first incubator of its kind for social change musicians and their communities.

For Musical Activists

Are you an artist with an idea for changing your community through music?

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For Community Partners

Are you looking for creative, solution-oriented ways to revitalize your community?

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For Supporters

Are you a supporter ready to activate new generations of musical change agents in service to our communities?

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“Music opens the heart so the mind can learn.”

Music to Life founder, Noel Paul Stookey

How It Works

With Music to Life’s help, musicians and their allies across the country are developing projects like these:

Recovery Advocacy

Expressive healing exercises that mobilize parents of addicted children to overcome their grief and speak out

Environmental Justice

A hip hop environmental curriculum for elementary school kids

Human Dignity

Trust building & self-esteem circles for vets, homeless, and incarcerated women

Civil Rights

A community rediscovers its soul through a civil rights soundtrack & documentary film with multi-genre artists

Voices of Musical Activism

Brave Troubadours: November 2020

Brave Troubadours: November 18, 2020

Brave Troubadours How Artists are Healing our Country DATE: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 TIME: 5pm PT / 7pm CT / 8pm ET Taking Music to the Streets! Brave Troubadours is a new educati...

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Music2Life House Concert Oct25

Accelerating Change House Concert: Oct. 25, 2020

Empowering Rural Youth Learn more about the artist/activists from this performance: EmZ, DJ Sean and GeNreal DATE: Sunday, October 25, 2020 TIME: 5pm PT / 7pm CT / 8pm ET ARTIST: Em ...

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Emilia Dahlin, Myles Bullen and Noel Paul Stookey

Accelerating Change House Concert: Sept. 13, 2020

The Art of Belonging DATE: Sunday, September 13, 2020 TIME: 5pm PT / 7pm CT / 8pm ET Learn more about the artist/activists from this performance: Emilia Dahlin, Myles Bullen and Noel ...

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Gina Chavez: Uplifting Oppressed Women in Latin America

Gina Chavez: Uplifting Oppressed Women in Latin America

Music and social activism have intertwined throughout Gina Chavez’s career as a Latinx bilingual folk-pop singer. Gina began writing music while living in Argentina. Later she spent eight mo...

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Tem Blessed: Inspiring Youth to Fight for a Just & Healthy Planet

Tem Blessed: Inspiring Youth to Fight for a Just & Healthy Planet

“Life, Liberation, and Hip Hop culture: this is why I make music. It’s more than music to me; it’s a movement. I make art to shine light and fulfill my purpose on this planet.” Born in We...

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Naima Shalhoub: Dignity and Meaning for Women in Prison

Naima Shalhoub: Dignity and Meaning for Women in Prison

Naima Shalhoub is a Lebanese American vocalist, songwriter, and educator for social justice. A former educator in the public school system, Naima spent a year facilitating weekly “Music and ...

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Nicholas Trahan/GeNreal: Using Music to Connect with Rural Youth

Nicholas Trahan/GeNreal: Using Music to Connect with Rural Youth

“Just doing what I had wished another person had done for me when I was that age.” That’s what fuels New England hip hop and rap artist “GeNreal,” otherwise known as Nicholas Trahan, to m...

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Each Accelerator’s ROI (Return on Investment) is measured through

Community Impact

Accelerator projects typically influence thousands of people in one or more of the following action areas:

Galvanize Supporters
Raise Awareness
Support Vulnerable Populations

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