I am grateful for you. 

 My Voice Music is who we are because of a community of people like you: people from all walks of life who believe in the power of music to speak to us when we need comfort and to be our words when our voice falls silent.

Now is a time when we can lean on music and art. 

Stop what you are doing and take a moment to put on your favorite song from high school or middle school. Seriously, do it. Here is a YouTube link (that may or may not go to a middle school favorite of mine). Be kind. It’s embarrassing but it makes me laugh.

Now that you have your song playing…

To help ensure the safety of our community we have canceled all in-person outreach programs and all classes and activities at MVM Studios. During this time we are committed to paying all of our staff and teachers.

Although MVM has canceled our direct therapeutic outreach programs for the next 2 months, we have found ways to continue to reach youth living in residential facilities who are further isolated by COVID-19 visitor restrictions. We are currently building a collection of lessons and activities to share with counselors in the facilities where hundreds of the youth we serve live. The collection includes ice breakers, tutorials and exercises that foster music, rhythm, poetry and most importantly, give space for voices to be heard and don’t require musicians to facilitate them.

 Another exciting way we are adapting our outreach programs is the launch of a “let’s write a song together” program. Any young person living in one of our partner residential facilities will be able to write a poem, draw a picture or simply write about their day and their team will send it to us. We will have songwriters turn that information into the inspiration for an original song to be written and recorded and sent back to the young person living in the facility.

Want to help? 

Donate here to support our modified outreach programs for the next 2 months. 

Join the MVM Band by becoming a monthly donor for as little as $5 a month.

I hope with all my heart that this email (and the song that better still be playing in your headphones, on your stereo or otherwise) brings you a moment of peace. We need that right now.

 On behalf of My Voice Music,

I am grateful for you and there are so many young people who are too.

Ian Mouser,
Executive Director