Our Annual Appeal To You

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Dear Friends:

 

I am writing to ask your support for the Boston Minstrels.  We are Boston's ONLY community singing group that provides participatory, interactive music in area shelters and MCI Middlesex.  Our 100 volunteers give over 7,000 hours of their time to reach 1,500 folks faced with homelessness and incarceration.  With a full band and scores of Minstrels at each gig, we facilitate over thirty songfests per year!  And we are in our twentieth year doing so!

 

We find that expressive music is therapy and has a healing effect on all participants.  Heightened emotional states of awareness, esteem, courage, harmony, and joy are just some of the results of our gigs.  After each gig, we leave behind a sense of meaning and caring that lingers on until we come back.

 

My hope is that you see this request as an exchange.  You empower us with your resources and we empower those less fortunate.  And in a sense you become one of us.  We need this exchange to continue our service to Boston's needy.  

 

Would you be willing to contribute $50 or $100 to our cause?  I hope you find us a worthy non profit organization to donate to this year.  We are very grateful that we can provide this service and to have your support.  We are a 501(3) and you can read all about us on our web site!

 

Gratefully,

 

Tim

 

p.s.  Our schedule is linked below.  Please join us!  No rehearsal required!  Just your heart and self, and the rest takes care of itself.  Also, click on the link for our video of active footage at our songfests.

 

p.p.s  We were recently interviewed on WBUR's "Radio Boston", click to listen! http://www.wbur.org/2010/11/26/boston-minstrel-company

 

Tim McHale
Executive Director
The Boston Minstrel Company
Making Music With Heart
102 Litchfield Street
Brighton, MA 02135
617-787-2122
email to bostonm...@aol.com
website www.bostonminstrel.org
View Schedule? http://bostonminstrel.org/sched.htm
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Want to Donate? http://bostonminstrel.org/donate_temp.htm