Music in Hospitals

Subject: Music in Hospitals
From: GUEST,Square The Circle
Date: 24 May 12 - 09:35 AM

Music in Hospitals (MiH) is a charity whose mission is to improve the quality of life for adults and children with all kinds of illness and disability through the joy and therapeutic benefits of professionally performed live music in hospitals, hospices, day care centres, special schools, nursing and residential homes.

We are currently looking for new musicians in the Midlands area.

Check their website out, you don't need a blue clicky thing surely.

Subject: RE: Music in Hospitals
From: wysiwyg
Date: 24 May 12 - 10:07 AM

BLUE CLICKY

~S~

Subject: RE: Music in Hospitals
From: wysiwyg
Date: 24 May 12 - 10:11 AM

Here, folkies will have the edge, hands down:

Performing at a Music in Hospitals concert is a very different experience to a public engagement and is both rewarding and challenging. Artists generally work amongst or close to their audience involving and interacting with individuals. Our musicians often feed back on the moving and powerful responses that they evoke during Music in Hospitals concerts, but these concerts can also present challenges that would not be found at public performances such as unscheduled pill rounds and tea trolleys!

(Going to borrow that paragraph for a local kazoo band I'm in that specializes in nursing homes!)

~S~

Subject: RE: Music in Hospitals
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 25 May 12 - 06:07 AM

Not to mention unscheduled bedpans!

Subject: RE: Music in Hospitals
From: GUEST,Square The Circle
Date: 29 May 12 - 04:51 AM

They arrange 4800 gigs per year and need help.

Subject: RE: Music in Hospitals
From: GUEST,highlandman at home
Date: 29 May 12 - 08:06 PM

Very nice. Too long of a commute tho.
Does anyone know of anything similar in the USA?