Spring Newsletter 2022 Foreword from KatherineWelcome to the first Music for Hope Newsletter of 2022; a monumental year for us as we celebrate our 25th anniversary. In honour of this, I want to take a moment to reflect on some of the things that make me proud of Music...
Music for Hope are pleased to announce that we have a new CD for sale. Historias Cantada Siempre Vivirán (Stories that are Sung, Live Forever) by Music for Hope Bands ‘Live’ has come out of a series of song-writing workshops held with the young participants of Music...
After the COVID-19 measures were lifted in El Salvador by the government, our students and music teachers have been able to come together and keep learning and practicing music in the music centres. Although the learning process...
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...