Let Music Speak brings extraordinary live music to the places people live, learn, gather, and connect.
Let Music Speak’s flagship program, PaoliFest, was a free music and arts festival that brought nationally and internationally touring artists to the small town of Paoli, Indiana, to perform alongside local musicians and young artists. From 2018 to 2023, the festival welcomed thousands of attendees and featured artists from across the country.
PaoliFest: Echoes carries that spirit forward through concerts, visiting artists, creative collaborations, and community outreach throughout Southern Indiana.
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An outreach concert program for places whose residents may have limited transportation or difficulty attending traditional venues.
We bring thoughtfully programmed live performances directly to retirement and senior living communities, care facilities, and other residential settings. Programs may feature string quartets, violin-and-guitar duos, jazz trios, wind ensembles, vocal groups, and more.
We work with organizations whose knowledge and relationships can help shape richer artistic experiences.
With Team Peace, we develop school workshops based on its mindfulness and resilience-building curriculum. Music & Emotions combined live performance, interactive music-making, and conversation to help students explore how music can express emotion and influence their reactions.
Through Lotus, we partnered with Argentine artists Eleanor Dubinsky and Dario Acosta Teich and Continuo to create A Night in Argentina, an original collaborative performance and residency that reached audiences at four Southern Indiana locations.
In 2019, Let Music Speak commissioned a public artwork from the Black Vulture Project and artist Tom Gleisner honoring Paoli native Margaret Hamilton, the pioneering computer scientist and lead software engineer for NASA’s Apollo program.
Created in partnership with So In Body, the Heartland Hustle combined movement and public art through a 5K run/walk along a route featuring artwork created by local youth, adults, and professional artists.