Our Spring 2025 Auction is LIVE!

Our Spring 2025 Auction is LIVE!

We’re thrilled to offer you three exclusive musical experiences and items that support our work with musician changemakers across the country! All proceeds directly support Music to Life’s mission: equipping musician changemakers with the tools and resources they need to create bold, community-driven change. Want to learn more about the…
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Instrument of Change: Vanessa Lively & Home Street Music

Instrument of Change: Vanessa Lively & Home Street Music

"My name is Vanessa Lively and I am an Instrument of Change." Every week in Austin, Texas, professional musicians and volunteers gather with people experiencing homelessness for 90 minutes of music, self-expression and creativity. The impact on participants and the community at large have been powerful. Watch the video to…
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Instrument of Change: Beny Esguerra & Wheel it Studios

Instrument of Change: Beny Esguerra & Wheel it Studios

"My name is Beny Esguerra and I am an Instrument of Change." On a Sunday afternoon, a small group of young people from the North Side and the South Side of the Jane Finch community in Toronto gather in a studio to collaborate on original music - and you get to…
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Instrument of Change: Elexa Dawson & Good Way Gardens

Instrument of Change: Elexa Dawson & Good Way Gardens

"My name is Elexa Dawson and I am an Instrument of Change." From Juried Artist Elexa Dawson What makes up a strong community? As a Potawatomi person, I believe it comes down to embracing diversity, sharing resources, valuing intergenerational wisdom, fostering interdependence, and living in a “Good Way" - a…
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BLOG: From Small Talk to Big Impact // Music to Life at FAI

BLOG: From Small Talk to Big Impact // Music to Life at FAI

Read about the experience of our Artist Liaison, Kyra Shaughnessy, at this year’s Folk Alliance International conference in Montreal. Imagine this: you’re in a big conference hall, hundreds of people milling around, conversations happening left and right. Everyone with coffee in hand, lanyard on neck – and eager to make…
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BLOG: Your Voice is Your Power / Tu Voz es Tu Poder

BLOG: Your Voice is Your Power / Tu Voz es Tu Poder

Written by Paige Menneci, NY Resident and Music to Life Communications Manager & Programs Associate After enduring another day of discouraging headlines delivered at lightspeed to a device in my pocket, I was feeling more than a little worn down when I walked down the staircase into DROM, an intimate…
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