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PMHU defies social barriers, builds unlikely connections, and creates compassionate communities by bringing high-quality, interactive music programming to individuals in carceral systems, healthcare settings, and under-resourced international communities. PROJECT: MUSIC HEALS US is a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide encouragement, education and healing through bringing high-qual

ity live music performances and interactive programming to marginalized communities with limited ability to access it themselves, with a focus on elderly, disabled, rehabilitating, hospitalized, incarcerated, and homeless populations.

Spring at PMHU brings new opportunities for creativity, connection, and growth!Over the next two months, we’ll be leadin...
03/23/2026

Spring at PMHU brings new opportunities for creativity, connection, and growth!

Over the next two months, we’ll be leading residencies at:
• Vista Detention Facility (Vista, CA)
• Pitchess Detention Center (Santa Clarita, CA)
• La Entrada (Los Angeles, CA)
• Lovelock Correctional Center (Lovelock, NV)

Each engagement includes an in-person residency, with some sites continuing into a multi-week creative process where participants develop original compositions alongside our Teaching Artists.

It’s a process that unfolds gradually—through collaboration, listening, and creative risk.

This week, we’re also heading to the San Quentin Film Festival—an event that continues to redefine what’s possible inside correctional spaces, bringing together currently and formerly incarcerated filmmakers in a setting built on shared experience and creative exchange.

We are grateful to be part of this broader ecosystem of artists and educators doing this work.

03/16/2026

A beautiful milestone for our Novel Voices students in Kenya.

PMHU recently shipped 8 string instruments — 4 violins, 2 violas, and 2 cellos, all with bows and cases — for students to receive, explore, and begin playing together. This video captures that story from start to finish: packing, shipping, arrival, first reactions, and celebration.

We’re grateful to The String House in Rochester and Stephen Kanack for helping make this possible.

There is something powerful about seeing the full arc: what starts with boxes and labels becomes music, excitement, and shared possibility.

From Kenya to you. 🌍🎻Join us tomorrow, Saturday, March 14, for the PMHU Ensemble Recital, a special hour of music shared...
03/13/2026

From Kenya to you. 🌍🎻

Join us tomorrow, Saturday, March 14, for the PMHU Ensemble Recital, a special hour of music shared from Mukuru kwa Ruben, Kenya.

Featuring the talented young musician from our Novel Voices Kenya program!

🗓 Saturday, March 14
🕥 10:30 AM EDT / 5:30 PM Nairobi
📍 Ruben Centre, Oasis Room, Mukuru kwa Ruben
🔗 Livestream: Link in Bio

We hope you’ll tune in and celebrate this beautiful program with us.

Some of the most meaningful outcomes of virtual music-making are also the most universal: familiarity, trust, responsive...
03/09/2026

Some of the most meaningful outcomes of virtual music-making are also the most universal: familiarity, trust, responsiveness, and presence.

In Vital Sounds Initiative sessions, patients guide the experience through their requests, memories, and needs in the moment.

Care lives in the details: learning a patient’s preferences, recognizing a returning face, shaping the session around what someone needs that day.

The music matters. So does the consistency. So does the relationship.

Through Vital Sounds Initiative, artists bring more than performance into hospital rooms — they bring attentiveness, warmth, and a moment of humanity.

Thank you - Elena, Matthew, Jake and all of our VSI musicians for helping to bring artistry and beautiful music to hospital bedsides across the country each and every week. ❤️💙🎶🎻🎹

03/03/2026

Rehabilitation works best when it recognizes the whole person.

We’re grateful to the San Bernardino County Probation Department for highlighting Music for the Future at their M.A.P. site — a model that integrates supervision, treatment, education, workforce development, and community partnership.

For five days, participants write, compose, and perform original music.

What we see in real time is transformative:
Emotional regulation through expression.
Teamwork built through collaboration.
Identity reimagined through authorship.

Creative programming doesn’t replace structured services — it strengthens them.

Thank you to the San Bernardino County Probation Department and Five Keys Schools and Programs for their continued partnership and commitment to holistic rehabilitation.

Leaders like these are helping redefine change not as punishment alone, but as growth — expanding how we think about transformation, accountability, and redemption in our communities.

03/02/2026

Inside Alameda County Santa Rita Jail, Music For The Future brought professional musicians into collaborative composition workshops with women who are incarcerated.

During this residency, members of the Friction Quartet sat side-by-side with participants — developing musical ideas, exploring structure, asking questions, and building original work together.

Thank you to the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office for helping us to capture these moments of concentration, creativity, connection, and community.

The work is vulnerable. It is reflective. It is transformative. And it happens one conversation, one note, one shared moment at a time.

Last week at Juilliard, The Hill We Climb brought together an extraordinary group of performers, staff, and partners for...
02/26/2026

Last week at Juilliard, The Hill We Climb brought together an extraordinary group of performers, staff, and partners for an evening shaped by music, spoken word, and collective reflection.

This group photo—taken after the performance—captures some of the wonderful faces behind the PMHU’s work: the artists onstage, the team supporting them, and the shared intention to create programming that strengthens connection and makes room for honest emotion.

Grateful to everyone who performed, supported, attended, and helped carry the night.

Congratulations again to The Dolphins Quartet for being awarded with the Robert the Sherman Award for Music Education and Community Outreach!

What is The Hill We Climb Project?Inspired by Amanda Gorman’s iconic poem, The Hill We Climb brings music, spoken word, ...
02/09/2026

What is The Hill We Climb Project?

Inspired by Amanda Gorman’s iconic poem, The Hill We Climb brings music, spoken word, and reflection together: a moment that asks us to listen more carefully and consider what it means to repair.

🗓️ Feb 16 | 7:30 PM
📍 Paul Hall at Juilliard (NYC)
🎤 Pre-concert talk at 6:30 PM (included with ticket)

Tickets / livestream info at the link in bio.

Over the past few weeks, our teaching artists and partners have been creating space for composition, connection, and pos...
02/05/2026

Over the past few weeks, our teaching artists and partners have been creating space for composition, connection, and possibility—inside. Here’s a snapshot of what’s been moving us:

📸 Slide 1: Friction Quartet (Otis Harriel, Kevin Rogers, Mitso Floor) + Julia Lee, alongside Jenn O’Brien (MFTF Program Coordinator) and MFTF students at Central California Women’s Facility.
🎧 Slide 2: Dana Martin on Prison Exposed—on music as a practice of healing, trust-building, and human dignity
💬 Slides 3–4: Participant reflections that say it better than we ever could
📝 Slide 5: A powerful feature on MFTF in Shaun Griffin’s A Writer’s World

Share this, listen/read via the link in bio, and help us keep this work growing.

Special thanks to for the feature and amplifying the voices of incarcerated people.

On February 16 at 7:30 PM, PMHU joins The Juilliard School for The Hill We Climb — a multidisciplinary program inspired ...
02/04/2026

On February 16 at 7:30 PM, PMHU joins The Juilliard School for The Hill We Climb — a multidisciplinary program inspired by Amanda Gorman’s iconic poem and its call toward unity, resilience, and hope.

“The hill we climb
If only we dare
It’s because being American is more than a pride we inherit,
it’s the past we step into
and how we repair it”

We’re honored to share space for poetry, music, and reflection at a time raw with division and adversity.

📍 February 16 | 7:30 PM
🎻 Paul Hall at Juilliard (155 W. 65th St., NYC)
🎤 Pre-concert talk at 6:30 PM (included with ticket)

Co-curated by PMHU Founder and Artistic Director Molly Carr (Juilliard alum + faculty, violist of the Juilliard String Quartet), the night features music, spoken word, and performance—plus PMHU voices you know and love:
✨ Dana Martin, PMHU Music for the Future Program Manager
✨ Dolphins Quartet (plus a special award presentation)
✨ Anna Petrova, piano
✨ Molly Carr, viola

Get your tickets today! Link in bio.

01/01/2026

Happy New Year ✨

As we step into 2026, we’re filled with gratitude. Together, Through Music—our end-of-year giving effort—surpassed our $30,000 goal, thanks to an incredible community of supporters who believe in the power of music to heal, teach, and connect.

Your generosity in 2025 helped bring music into hospitals, justice spaces, and classrooms around the world—and made it possible for PMHU to keep building compassionate communities through sound.

Thank you for showing up, believing in the work, and helping shape what’s possible. We can’t wait to share what’s ahead.

Here’s to a new year, together 🎶


 
 
 


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