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Brave Troubadours: March 18, 2021

Brave Troubadours: March 18, 2021

Brave Troubadours Honoring Women's History Month DATE: Thursday, March 18, 2021 TIME: 5pm PT / 7pm CT / 8pm ET NOTE: Event will be LIVE streamed on Zoom and Facebook.  Help us spread the word by sharing this URL or inviting friends via Facebook! Brave Troubadours is an educational series,…
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Brave Troubadours: February 18, 2021

Brave Troubadours: February 18, 2021

Brave Troubadours Honoring Black History Month DATE: Thursday, February 18, 2021 TIME: 5pm PT / 7pm CT / 8pm ET NOTE: Event will be LIVE streamed on Zoom and Facebook.  Help us spread the word by sharing this URL or inviting friends via Facebook! Brave Troubadours is an educational series,…
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Brave Troubadours: January 14, 2021

Brave Troubadours: January 14, 2021

Brave Troubadours Building Bridges/Bridging Divides DATE: Thursday, January 14, 2021 TIME: 5pm PT / 7pm CT / 8pm ET Brave Troubadours is a new educational series, showcasing today's frontline musical activists.  Each episode offers 45-minutes of song and conversation - an entertaining and inspiring virtual roundtable that explores music's capacity…
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Brave Troubadours: November 18, 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 educational series, showcasing today's frontline musical activists.  Each episode offers 45-minutes of song and conversation - an entertaining…
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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 make an impact on rural youth. For him, success has always been about mindset. And if…
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Accelerating Change House Concert: Oct. 25, 2020

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 Z ARTIST: DJ Sean ARTIST: GeNreal EMCEE: Liz Stookey Sunde HOSTS: Upper Valley Music Center (Ben Van Vliet) and…
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Emilia Dahlin: Facilitating the Voices of Immigrant Mothers

Emilia Dahlin: Facilitating the Voices of Immigrant Mothers

Photo: Lauryn Hottinger If a picture paints a thousand words, it can also forever change a life. That’s what happened to musician Emilia Dahlin when she saw the starkly haunting images of the arduous journeys faced by immigrants, taken by renowned photographer Sebastião Salgado in his book "Migrations: Humanity in…
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Myles Bullen: Musical Healing Beyond Prison Walls

Myles Bullen: Musical Healing Beyond Prison Walls

Creativity, connection and community... That's what encompasses the work of Myles Bullen, a Native American musician, poet and performer from Portland, Maine—and one of Music to Life's Northern New England Accelerator participants. Over the past few years, Bullen has performed in schools, prisons and recovery centers around the world. Just…
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Accelerating Change House Concert: Sept. 13, 2020

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 Paul Stookey ARTIST: Emilia Dahlin ARTIST: Myles Bullen ARTIST: Noel Paul Stookey EMCEE: Liz Stookey Sunde HOSTS: Ruth…
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Accelerating Change House Concert: July 26, 2020

Accelerating Change House Concert: July 26, 2020

Equity and Empowerment DATE: Sunday, July 26, 2020 TIME: 5pm PT / 7pm CT / 8pm ET Learn more about the artist/activists from this performance: HOST: Dr. Rick Halperin, Director, SMU Human Rights Program EMCEE: Leti Bueno ARTIST:  Amanda Pascali ARTIST: Kamica King ARTIST: Gina Chavez Music has always played a…
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