Wild Notes Foundation

09/01/2026

Well. TikTok is apparently funding our road trip now. 😭

Someone commented joking that she'd donate if I took a Backstreet Boys request… AND THEN SHE ACTUALLY DONATED $125. 😂😭

Which means our $117 hotel near Brazos Bend is officially covered.

Thank you, M.D. 💚🎻

$125 raised. $625 to go.

One expense officially crossed off the list!! (Backstreet Boys still not guaranteed. I am an NSYNC girl anyway. 😂)

09/01/2026

We are so excited to participate in this fantastic event! Come listen to some solo cello provided by Wild Notes midway along the hiking trail for peace and connection. 🌿🎻

You're invited to join us for a special event: Veterans at the Bend!

☀️On Saturday, September 19th from 8AM-12PM, Brazos Bend State Park will be hosting Veterans at the Bend event: a veterans mental health awareness event. Veteran-owned businesses, vendors, and organizations will be in attendance, helping us to inform and educate while attendees partake in fun, food, contests, and programs!🎣

👟This event begins at 8AM at the Elm Lake Pavilion with a resource booth hour followed by an Honor Hike at 9AM around Elm Lake Loop and Horseshoe Lake Loop. There will be all kinds of activities like archery, fishing, tug of war, as well as interpretive tables and programs.🎯

🌳The park's entry fee will be waived for anyone coming to visit Brazos Bend during this event, so come out and join us as we learn together and walk to support our veterans.📅✅✅

08/31/2026

218 miles. Two parks. One day. Free music. 🎻🌙

On September 19th, Wild Notes is hitting the road.

We’ll begin the morning at Brazos Bend State Park, sharing live music during Veterans at the Bend. That evening, we’ll travel south to Galveston Island State Park for International Observe the Moon Night—ending the day with solo cello beneath the night sky.

Both programs will be free.

That matters deeply to us. Wild Notes exists to bring meaningful, place-responsive music into parks and wild spaces without putting a ticket price between people and the experience.

But free programs still cost money to make possible.

We’re raising * $750 * to help cover the direct travel costs of bringing these two programs to life—218 miles on the road, two nights of lodging, and meals along the way.

🌿 $15 helps feed our tiny traveling crew
🚗 $30 helps get us down the road
🏨 $75 helps cover a meaningful part of lodging
🎻 $150 makes a major piece of the journey possible

If just 25 people give $30, we’ll reach our goal.

And if we exceed the direct costs of September 19, every additional dollar stays with Wild Notes Foundation and helps bring free music to the next wild place.

Help us travel from the Bend to the Bay—and bring a cello along for all 218 miles. 💚

More info: www.wildnotes.org/bend-to-bay

Consider giving today: www.wildnotes.org/donate

Wild Notes Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Donations are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.

08/27/2026

08/24/2026

What happens when we bring classical music into a wild place—and truly listen to what happens around it? 🌊🎻

Yesterday, Wild Notes returned to Galveston Island State Park for La Mer, a morning of French classical music performed on the beach.

But some of the most meaningful moments weren't on the program.

A grackle perched on a piece of driftwood as if joining the audience, eventually walking right in front of the cello and listening with its head cocked to one side. A ghost crab emerged from its burrow and joined us, too—and for a moment, the entire audience lit up with the delight of noticing this tiny creature among us.

That is Wild Notes.

The music isn't meant to compete with the landscape. It's an invitation to pay closer attention to it.

When we slow down enough to listen, we notice the birds. The wind. The Gulf. The tiny lives moving through the sand beneath us. And perhaps we leave feeling a little more connected to the place—and a little more invested in caring for it.

Music → Listening → Attention → Connection to Place → Stewardship.

We are deeply grateful to Friends of Galveston Island State Park (FoGISP) for sponsoring this program and supporting our work, and to Galveston Island State Park - Texas Parks and Wildlife for continuing to host, collaborate with, and welcome Wild Notes into this extraordinary landscape.

Thank you for helping us create spaces where people can listen differently. 🌿

08/22/2026

We cannot wait!! 💙🌊🎻

08/20/2026

Just a few more days until La Mer! A French soundscape with solo cello at Galveston Island State Park. We are getting packed and ready to head to Galveston for an action-packed, fun, and musical weekend!

We can't wait to see you there!

08/18/2026

Studying for Sunday’s concert: VOCABULARY! 🇫🇷🎻

Because apparently playing French music also requires a small French vocabulary quiz.

Gymnopédie: a word borrowed from an ancient Greek festival/dance involving young men. Erik Satie encountered this word and apparently thought, “yes, perfect title for the dreamiest music anyone has ever heard.”

Gnossienne: possibly related to Knossos/Crete. Possibly invented by Satie. Mysterious even in French. Very on brand.

Rêverie: daydream. Finally, a normal one.

Après un rêve: after a dream. Which sounds lovely until you hear Fauré and realize the dream is over and everything is terrible. 🥲

Arabesque: an intricate, flowing decorative design. Think beautiful curling lines, but in music.

Pavane: a slow, stately Renaissance dance. Extremely elegant. Everyone is presumably wearing something fabulous.

Clair de lune: moonlight. 🌙 No notes. Perfect.

Le cygne: the swan. 🦢 Saint-Saëns gave the cello one of its most famous melodies and permanently obligated cellists everywhere to become a swan at some point in their careers.

Élégie: elegy; a lament or piece of mourning. We have stopped frolicking in the moonlight. Things have taken a turn.

Avec force/fortement: with force; forcefully. 💥 The French have officially asked us to stop being delicate and DO SOMETHING.

La mer: the sea. 🌊 See? You already speak French!

French music vocabulary is 40% poetry, 30% old dances, 20% mysterious artistic terminology, and 10% Erik Satie making us all Google things more than 100 years later.

And conveniently, there is no vocabulary quiz required to come hear some French music by the actual sea this weekend.

Join Wild Notes Foundation this Sunday morning at 9:00 AM for La Mer: French Music on Solo Cello at Galveston Island State Park. 🌊🎻🌿

Free classical music. Gulf breeze. Sunday morning by the water. No French exam.

Sunday, August 23 | 9:00 AM
Galveston Island State Park

Come listen with us. 💚