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Wild Notes Foundation Music in wild places. We bring classical music and quiet listening to state and national parks, inviting communities to reconnect with the living world.

10/07/2026

What if a familiar song could help us discover something new about the world right in front of us?

The Worlds We Imagine is a playful, interactive cello experience where familiar songs become doorways into the living world around us.

Cellist and music educator Dr. Amanda Guilfoyle will perform favorites including A Whole New World, Winnie the Pooh, You've Got a Friend in Me, Circle of Life, How Far I'll Go, Colors of the Wind, and more—while inviting young listeners and their grown-ups to explore the real-life ideas hidden inside them.

Who might be living in the woods around us? How do animals find their way across enormous distances? What does it mean for living things to depend on one another? And what happens when we stop thinking of nature as the background and start paying attention to everything happening around us?

Through music, conversation, imagination, and moments of listening to the landscape itself, families will discover that the worlds we imagine in stories might have more in common with the wild world around us than we think.

Saturday, November 7 • 10:00 AM
Spring Creek Greenway Nature Center

Free • Family-friendly • No tickets required

More info: www.wildnotes.org/worlds-we-imagine

10/06/2026

Real and raw behind the scenes! Musicians have to practice and prepare for performances. Sometimes that practice is a little... Gothic. 🎃👻🐈‍⬛️

Come see Boos & Bows on Oct. 24th at 7pm at Kleb Woods Nature Preserve in Tomball, TX! We will be playing a delightfully spooky collection of halloween music while talking about what the forest sounds like when the sun goes down. 👻

Costumes encouraged! We will also be passing out halloween candy! Family-friendly and always free. Find more info at www.wildnotes.org/woodland-nights

🎃🎻 Something a little mysterious is coming to the woods...On October 24, Wild Notes is heading to Kleb Woods Nature Pres...
09/28/2026

🎃🎻 Something a little mysterious is coming to the woods...

On October 24, Wild Notes is heading to Kleb Woods Nature Preserve for Boos & Bows: A Woodland Halloween Cello Concert—a free, family-friendly evening of live music, woodland listening, and just a little Halloween mischief. 🌲🌙

As daylight fades, we'll explore what happens when darkness changes the way we experience a familiar landscape.

The roughly 30-minute solo cello program will travel from the mischievous Danse macabre to Paint It, Black, the shadowy world of Bach's Fifth Cello Suite, and Pēteris Vasks' extraordinary Pianissimo—where the cellist's own voice becomes part of the music.

And now we have all the details you need to plan your evening:

🎃 Costumes are welcome!
🍬 We'll have Halloween candy after the concert
🪑 Bring a chair or blanket
🗺️ We've added a map showing exactly where to find us at Kleb Woods
🔭 Want to stay for Astronomy Night afterward? It's a separate Harris County Precinct 4 program and requires its own registration
🔴 After dark, bright white lights aren't permitted for stargazing—but Kleb Woods will have red lighting to help everyone find their way

Saturday, October 24
7:00–7:30 PM
📍 Kleb Woods Nature Preserve | Tomball, TX
✨ Free + family-friendly

Come early, settle into the woods, and listen with us as daylight disappears.

Full concert details, arrival map + Astronomy Night information:
wildnotes.org/woodland-nights

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🌙 Moonlight Melodies at Galveston Island State Park 🌊🎻It seemed like more than 100 people joined us last night for an ev...
09/20/2026

🌙 Moonlight Melodies at Galveston Island State Park 🌊🎻

It seemed like more than 100 people joined us last night for an evening of music, astronomy, and moonlight on the Texas coast. 🥹

As the sun disappeared over the prairie and the moon rose above the Gulf, we listened to the music of Philip Glass beneath the open sky—with the sound of the waves just beyond us. Between the music, incredible telescope viewing, and lunar interpretation, the whole evening became a chance to look up, listen closely, and experience this landscape, and the UNIVERSE, in a completely different way.

One person told me afterward that the experience made her feel like she was “swimming in space.” I don't think I could describe the evening any better. 🌌

It was also so surreal and lovely to meet people who recognized me from my recent Houston Life appearance and came out to experience Wild Notes in person!

Thank you to Galveston Island State Park, everyone who helped make the evening possible, and every single person who spent part of their night under the moon with us. 🌙

This is what Wild Notes is all about: music not simply performed outdoors, but placed in conversation with the landscape around us.
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This morning at Brazos Bend State Park reminded me that some of the best moments in nature are the ones you could never ...
09/19/2026

This morning at Brazos Bend State Park reminded me that some of the best moments in nature are the ones you could never plan. 🌿🎻

Before playing at Veterans at the Bend, I spent some time looking out over Elm Lake, taking in a wetland absolutely bursting with life. Suddenly, a deer came flying through the tall grass in front of me—so fast I barely had time to process what I'd seen!

Then, while I was playing, dragonflies kept landing on my bow. 🥹 I think they may have been my most attentive audience members.

One moment especially stayed with me: a veteran stopped along the way to listen. She told me she felt “lucky” to hear the cello and couldn't wait to “show off” the photos and video she'd taken. ❤️

And because apparently the morning wasn't wild enough already, I also got to meet a baby alligator and a snake! 🐊🐍

These little encounters are such a beautiful reminder of why Wild Notes exists in the first place: to slow down, notice where we are, and experience music as part of the living world around us.

Thank you to Brazos Bend State Park for welcoming Wild Notes as part of Veterans at the Bend. 💚

Now we're officially on our way from the Bend to the Bay! Next stop: Galveston Island State Park for Moonlight Melodies tonight. 🌙🌊🎻

Behind the scenes at Wild Notes 🌿🎻Two concerts. Two state parks. Two very different environments = two very different ou...
09/18/2026

Behind the scenes at Wild Notes 🌿🎻

Two concerts. Two state parks. Two very different environments = two very different outfits.

For Veterans at the Bend at Brazos Bend State Park, I’m going practical: durable hiking shorts, tall hiking boots, and lightweight layers for a morning surrounded by wetlands, trails, bugs, mud, and possibly a few very large reptilian audience members. 😂🐊

Then it’s off to Galveston Island State Park for Moonlight Melodies, where I’m swapping the boots for Chacos and the hiking shorts for a breezier pair of handmade shorts that feel much more at home in the sand and Gulf breeze. 🌙🌊

One of my favorite parts of Wild Notes is thinking about how every detail can respond to the place... even what I wear.

Tomorrow we go from the Bend to the Bay! 🎻🌿🌊

$425 TO GO—AND THE CONCERTS ARE DAY AFTER TOMORROW! Thanks to another incredibly generous donor, we’re another $100 clos...
09/17/2026

$425 TO GO—AND THE CONCERTS ARE DAY AFTER TOMORROW!

Thanks to another incredibly generous donor, we’re another $100 closer to fully funding Bend-to-Bay!

We’ve raised $325 of our $750 goal, which means just $425 remains as we head into our final push before Saturday.

On September 19, Wild Notes is traveling from Brazos Bend State Park to Galveston Island State Park in a single day to bring two completely free outdoor cello experiences to our Texas State Parks—and your support is what helps make that possible.

If you’ve been thinking about donating, now is the time! Whether it’s $10, $25, $50, or whatever feels right, every gift gets us closer to covering the travel and lodging costs that make this day possible.

I’m so incredibly grateful to everyone who has donated, shared, encouraged us, or helped spread the word. 💚

We only need $425 more. Let’s get Bend-to-Bay fully funded!

Donate here: wildnotes.org/donate

Wild Notes made the news!! 🌿🎻I’m so excited to share that KPRC2 Houston Life featured Wild Notes both on-air AND in a ne...
09/16/2026

Wild Notes made the news!! 🌿🎻

I’m so excited to share that KPRC2 Houston Life featured Wild Notes both on-air AND in a new article about our work bringing free classical music into Texas parks and wild places.

You can now watch the full Houston Life interview and performance on YouTube, and read the KPRC2 article about Wild Notes and our upcoming Bend-to-Bay concerts at Brazos Bend State Park and Galveston Island State Park!

📺 Watch the interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvl2bQ3yCko

📰 Read the KPRC2 article:
https://www.click2houston.com/houston-life/2026/09/14/a-cello-concert-in-the-great-outdoors-free-shows-coming-to-two-texas-state-parks/

Seeing Wild Notes covered like this feels like such a huge milestone. This little idea started with a cello, a park, and a belief that classical music can help us listen more closely to the places around us—and now that story is reaching people all across Houston.

A huge thank you to Houston Life and KPRC2 for giving Wild Notes this platform, and to everyone who has attended a concert, donated, shared a post, partnered with us, or simply believed in what we’re building. 💚

And now… onward to Bend-to-Bay this Saturday!


Houston Life

The Moon is a lot wilder than it looks from down here.Its surface is covered in craters, mountains, valleys, and enormou...
09/16/2026

The Moon is a lot wilder than it looks from down here.

Its surface is covered in craters, mountains, valleys, and enormous dark plains formed by ancient volcanic activity. Some craters near the lunar poles haven’t seen sunlight for billions of years. And because the Moon has virtually no atmosphere, there’s no wind or rain slowly erasing its history. Even the footprints left by Apollo astronauts could remain there for millions of years.

This Saturday, we’re celebrating our closest celestial neighbor for International Observe the Moon Night at Galveston Island State Park!

Moonlight Melodies with Wild Notes begins at 8:00 PM and is completely FREE. Come spend an evening under the night sky with live cello music, a closer look at the Moon, and the sounds of the bayside after dark. 🌙

Learn more about Moonlight Melodies and our full Bend-to-Bay day at wildnotes.org/bend-to-bay.

We’re getting SO close. 🥹🌿🎻🌙We still need $525 to reach our $750 Bend-to-Bay fundraising goal for September 19!That $750...
09/13/2026

We’re getting SO close. 🥹🌿🎻🌙

We still need $525 to reach our $750 Bend-to-Bay fundraising goal for September 19!

That $750 helps cover the very real behind-the-scenes costs of bringing two free Wild Notes concerts to two Texas State Parks in one day—travel, lodging, mileage, supplies, and everything else it takes to get a cello from Brazos Bend to Galveston and make both programs happen.

And just for a little perspective: I’m volunteering my time as the musician. The fundraising goal is simply helping Wild Notes cover the actual costs of putting these concerts into the world.

At Brazos Bend, I’ll be playing a peaceful morning program near Elm Lake as part of Veterans at the Bend. Then that evening, we head all the way to Galveston Island State Park for Moonlight Melodies under the night sky for International Observe the Moon Night. 🌙

If 21 people gave $25, we’d be there.

If 11 people gave $50, we’d be there.

Or maybe one person sees this and thinks, “You know what? I want to help make free cello music happen in a swamp AND on an island in the same day.” 😂

Every bit genuinely helps.

🌿 Donate + learn more: wildnotes.org/bend-to-bay

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14901 FM 3005
Galveston, TX
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