A student-led nonprofit · Durham & Chapel Hill
Bringing music.
Creating connection.
Live music for retirement communities, and musical opportunities for the next generation.
An afternoon. A common room. One song at a time.
The mission
Music has the power
to make people feel remembered.
Music & Light brings live music to retirement communities across the Durham–Chapel Hill area, and creates musical opportunities for the next generation.
Two missions, one belief: that music belongs to everyone in the room.
Stories
The rooms we've been
invited into.
Resident, Solista Durham
“Sometimes I think the world has forgotten we are here.”
An older gentleman came out to find us as we were loading the car. Tears in his eyes, wanting only to say thank you. What he said next is the reason we keep showing up.
We write down what we see and hear in the rooms we're invited into, the way you'd want someone to remember an afternoon that mattered.
Join the ensemble
You don't have to be
a virtuoso. You have to be present.
If you can sit beside someone, play one song, and let it matter, there's a chair waiting for you.
Musician
Strings, piano, voice, woodwinds. Any instrument that travels well into a small room.
Storyteller
Photographers, writers, filmmakers. Help us bear witness to what happens in the room.
Organizer
Logistics, scheduling, partner outreach. The quiet work that makes Tuesday possible.
Ambassador
Bring Music & Light to your school, hospital, or community. Open a new door.
