Music. The universal Communicator

I’ve just returned to my hotel room from playing a gala fundraiser at the Perkins School for the Blind, in Watertown Massachusetts. We played 5 songs with a number of the students singing & playing with us, some of whom are not just visually impaired but also suffering extreme learning (& communication) difficulties. The teachers explained that some of the children come to the school in a practically catatonic state. And the one thing that somehow reaches out to these students is music. It is the single most successful thing in getting them out of their shells & into a routine of communicating with the rest of the student body and the world in general.

To say this evening was an intense learning experience for me would be an enormous understatement: I found it both moving and uplifting. I’d like to thank all the staff at Perkins for their hospitality & for taking the time to both make us feel welcome and educate us on the incredible work they do.