Dear Friends and Supporters, I hope 2019 has started well for you all. I started Music for Hope alongside young Salvadorian musicians in 1996 and it has been such an honour to see it grow from a tiny seedling project teaching music to twenty children in one community,...
Song Writing in the Bajo Lempa: Part IV Protect the Animals In actual fact, only one of the groups—Impacto Musical in Amando López, kept with the idea of using imagination and fantasy to make a social commentary. They chose a story that bore more than a passing...
Song Writing in the Bajo Lempa: Part III Keeping up the momentum. The songs we’d recorded were a great start, but all the bands mentioned how difficult it was to think of an idea and then turn it into lyrics. It took a long time, they said, and there was a sense that...
Song Writing in the Bajo Lempa: Part II I went back to the Bajo Lempa in the summer of 2018 to catch up with the teachers and the groups and to see how they’d got on with the challenge I’d left them with the previous year. They’d done themselves proud. All the groups...
In the summer of 2014 I had just graduated and was about to go out into the real world, but first, I had the trip of a lifetime to make. I had become a volunteer for Music for Hope a couple of years earlier through a friend who was also at the University of...