music makes the difference

Hello Visitor, 
Progress in bringing music to more people continues. See what we have been up to this year with some highlights below. Find the printable version of the newsletter here.

COWBOY'S SONG

It is Tuesday, August 23, 2016, and Ken and Mike just left City Creek Post Acute Care after an hour and 45 minutes. These two bigger-than-life guys arrived 30 minutes early, armed with big smiles, two guitars, a banjo and a vast repertoire of songs. But, most importantly, big, soft hearts.

As I went room to room to gather residents for the performance, there was one gentleman that I really wanted to attend the performance. He had been put on hospice just a few weeks earlier.

1,000 SHOWS AND COUNTING

Director’s Message: 1,000 shows, countless lives touched. 

It’s been a tremendous year. Heart & Soul topped the 1,000-show-per-year mark, serving over 25,000 isolated neighbors from Ogden to Spanish Fork.

A STUNNING DOCUMENTARY

BYU-TV’s The Turning Point series has produced a lavish, poignant portrait of Heart & Soul. It tells the history, our current innovations, and hopes for the future in a touching way—an appropriate feeling,  ­considering that our business is touching people’s lives.

REMEMBERING DON BEHRMAN

Don Behrman, known to his music friends and Heart & Soul audiences as Dominoe, left this earthly home on Tuesday, March 8, 2016. Barely 72, he left us way too soon. 

Dominoe knew all the standards that our audiences love. He was our story-telling, rockin’ cowboy, Nashville star and sang songs by Elvis, Johnny Cash, Don Williams and Merle Haggard, and more.

For the second year - do I sense an annual event? 

Proper Brewing, with two locations in Salt Lake City, have concocted a tasty ode to Heart & Soul’s own assistant director, Ainsley-Marie McLaughlin. A percentage of proceeds from sales of “Ainsley Amber” support Heart & Soul programs, while supplies last.

As a friend of Heart & Soul, you make the difference. Your gift today will help bring the healing power of music to those in need.