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Fall 2024 Issue #104

Resilience

  • Songs to Help Children in Hard Times

    Three legendary CMN artists focus on the power of music to help children process challenging emotions and upsetting events. They share songs written especially for hard times and tell powerful stories about making connections through music even in devastating circumstances.

  • Melanie DeMore: Music as Community Connector and Food for the Soul

    2024 Magic Penny Award winner Melanie DeMore is a multitalented singer, composer, performer, choral instructor, and “vocal activist,” and has been involved with a number of organizations and ongoing community actions over the last several years.

  • Bridge-building, Hope, and Resilience: Reggie Harris’s Searching for Solid Ground

    In his book, Reggie Harris describes the powerful music he grew up with in his Black community—a community “that understood the nature of perseverance, that understood the nature of hope and working towards hope.”

  • Playlists: Resilience

    Songs about believing in yourself, expressing feelings, overcoming adversity, trying again and again, growing from mistakes, adapting to change, finding support, and all those things that allow us to carry on when times are tough.

  • I Am Resilient

    Julieann's song teaches kids how to express their needs and find support as well as how to give gratitude and celebrate their inner strength.