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Purple Songs Can Fly Project: News

Purple Songs Can Fly on KUHF"s "The Front Row - August 13, 2010

Founder, Anita Kruse, and Purple Songs Can Fly composers - Aaron Kaufman & Tricia Fox perform on KUHF to promote the Purple Songs Can Fly Benefit Concert.

LIsten here:

http://app1.kuhf.org/houston_public_radio-news-display.php?articles_id=1281737909

Purple Songs Can Fly Benefit Concert August 13, 2010 in Houston - July 29, 2010

Please join us for a Purple Songs Can Fly Benefit concert featuring Aaron Kaufman, Anita Kruse, Tricia Fox and four Purple Songs Can Fly participants, Emily, Candis, Christian & Zachary.

When: August 13, 2010 Friday Night, 8pm

Where: Ovations in the Rice Village
Times Blvd. at Kirby

Be sure to wear something PURPLE!!!!

$20 at the door
Children free

Purple Songs Can Fly Event in Japan - June 6, 2010

Founder, Anita Kruse travels to Japan for a Purple Songs Can Fly event in Tamana City.

Tricia Fox our newest member - May 3, 2010

Tricia Fox is our newest member of the Purple Songs Can Fly Project. She has been writing songs for most of her life, and after getting a guitar for her fourteenth birthday, she knew it would stick with her. In university, Tricia had a hard time deciding between medicine and music. After loosing a dear friend and fellow musician to Cystic Fibrosis, something inside her told her to follow music. Through music she could perhaps work in the medical industry to help heal and comfort patients. "I knew I wanted to continue connecting with songwriting and I wasn't sure how or when, but I felt as though there was a beautiful combination of the two worlds and that we would find each other one day."

That day came a few months after getting her Bachelor of Arts in Music from Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. Her sister forwarded an e-mail with the Purple Songs Can Fly website. The rest is history. Tricia e-mailed Carol Herron and met with Carol and Anita late fall of 2009. In January of 2010 Tricia started interning for Purple Songs Can Fly and has loved every minute of it. "I really don't think I could have designed a better match for myself. Just wait until you hear some of the wisdom and joy that comes from these kids! It truly is a blessing to be a part of something so inspirational. I hope to be a part of the program for a long time."

Happy New Year!! - January 12, 2010

Dear Friends of Purple Songs Can Fly,

2009 was quite a year for the project! Working with the children to write and record their own songs continues to be an amazing adventure. I am always inspired by the strength and depth of these beautiful children. Here are some of the ways that the project has been shared this year as more and more people recognize the importance of the arts in medicine and the significance of music in our lives.

January - a beautiful story by Monica Rhor of the Associated Press appears online and in print worldwide on New Year's Day http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28461535/

February - a great story by Janet Shamlian airs on the NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams http://www.txccc.org/content.cfm?content_id=1720

March - a visit to Japan begins plans for a Purple Songs Can Fly outreach there

April - a story about the project is published on the Grammy's website - grammy.com

May - Purple Songs reach the summit of Mt. Everest with Astronaut Scott Parazynski

June - a beautiful Reader's Digest story appears across the country http://www.rd.com/your-america-inspiring-people-and-stories/songs-of-love-for-child-cancer-patients/article138889.html

July & August - our wonderful intern, Aaron Kaufman returns to work with the children. A story about Aaron and Purple Songs appears in Forbes Magazine http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2009/fortune/0907/gallery.summer_interns_college_students.fortune/5.html

September - Stephen, Alex, Zachary, Mary Jo & Nikki write the lyrics for the song, "Hope Is Always Here"

October - Olivia Newton John and David Foster write and record the music for "Hope Is Always Here"
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002YI5JSY/ref=cm_cr_pr_pb_opt

November - Mike Burg's vision - Kaleidoscope - Skating, Song & Survivorship - airs nationwide on Thanksgiving Day. The children perform "Hope Is Always Here" with Olivia Newton John and David Foster as Dorothy Hamill skates to the song http://womenandcancer.com/theshow.html

December - a story about the project appears in Woman's World Magazine

Over 150 songs have now been written and recorded. The songs continue to fly on Continental Airlines in-flight playlists, and have now flown on 2 space shuttle missions. As we look ahead to a new year of purple songwriting and recording, I'd like to thank all of you for your interest in and support of the project! Many thanks to Carol Herron, Dr. Poplack, Dr. Dreyer, Susan Krause, Carol Wittman and everyone at Texas Children's Cancer Center!

Wishing you all a wonderful 2010!

Sincerely,

Anita Kruse
Founder/Executive Director

Purple Songs Featured in Cure Magazine - January 9, 2010

Purple Songs Can Fly is featured in a beautiful Cure Magazine Story.

http://www.curetoday.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/article.show/id/2/article_id/1359

Purple Songs - Woman's World Magazine - December 5, 2009

Purple Songs Can Fly is featured in a great story this month in Woman's World Magazine.

Purple Songs Can Fly & Kaleidoscope airs Thanksgiving Day, 4pm EST - November 26, 2009

"Hope Is Always Here" released on iTunes - November 25, 2009

A beautiful new song, "Hope Is Always Here", lyrics written by 5 children from Purple Songs Can Fly, Stephen, Alex, Nikki, Zachary & Mary Jo, music by Olivia Newton John and David Foster is released on iTunes.
Proceeds will benefit The Purple Songs Can Fly Project.
Many thanks to Mike Burg and everyone at Kaleidoscope for bringing this vision to fruition!

http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/hope-is-always-here-with-david-foster/id341511334?i=341511337&ign-mpt=uo%3D6

Purple Songs Can Fly on Thanksgiving Day! - November 3, 2009

On Thanksgiving Day at 3pm central time on FOX, five children from Purple Songs Can Fly, Stephen, Mary Jo, Alex, Nikki, & Zachary will perform the new Song, "Hope Is Always Here" with Olivia Newton John and David Foster on the FOX Television Special, Kaleidoscope.

Japan Support Association PSCF - September 5, 2009

Many thanks to Kazuaki Imoto and the members of the Japan Support Association for Purple Songs Can Fly - Kiyoe Ueda, Kanechika, Tsukamoto, Chikako Matsumoto, Naomi Arakawa, Masahiko Kiyohara & Kayoko Kiyohara for your visit to Houston and for all of your support!!

Aaron Kaufman Our Intern - September 1, 2009

Many Thanks to Aaron Kaufman, wonderful singer/songwriter for coming back to Houston to be the Purple Songs Can Fly intern for Summer '09.

Over 145 Purple Songs Written & Recorded - August 24, 2009

To date, over 145 songs have been written, recorded and flown around the globe. The songs can be heard on select Continental Airlines In-Flight Playlists, they have flown millions of miles aboard two Space Shuttle Missions, and thanks to Astronaut Scott Parazynki, a Purple Songs Can Fly prayer flag now waves on the summit of Mt. Everest.

As the first recording studio ever created on a pediatric cancer floor, the Purple Songs Can Fly Project has been featured in many publications including The New York Times, The Associated Press, Family Circle Magazine, Reader's Digest, Grammy.com, and The NBC Nightly News.

Many New Songs Written - June 26, 2009

138 Songs Written & Recorded with the project to date.

Here are just a few of the new titles:

I Really Love My Dad
Home Is In the Heart
A Smile Can Change Anything
Being Invincible
My Two Kittens
Questions
Favorite
The World Prays

Astronaut Scott Summits Mt. Everest!!! - May 19, 2009

Astronaut Scott summits Mt. Everest making him the first human being to both fly in space and climb to the highest point on earth!
Everyone at Purple Songs Can Fly is so proud to know him.
Scott carried Purple Songs with him on his climb along with a Purple Songs Can Fly/Texas Children's Cancer Center prayer flag.
Congratulations Scott on your history making climb!!!!

http://www.txccc.org

http://www.txccc.org/content.cfm?content_id=1760

http://www.onorbit.com/everest

Reader's Digest/Purple Songs Can Fly story - May 11, 2009

A story about The Purple songs Can Fly Project appears in the June 2009 Edition of Reader's Digest on page 42.
Thank you to Lynn Rosellini for writing such a beautiful story.

Purple Songs Studio on Grammy.com - April 2, 2009

The Grammy website, Grammy.com features Purple Songs Can Fly in the Industry News section, titled
The Healing Studio.

Link to the story:

http://www.grammy.com/Recording_Academy/News/Default.aspx?newsID=3286

Japan Support Association for Purple Songs - March 6, 2009

Founder, Anita Kruse travels to Japan to begin a Purple Songs Can Fly outreach there.

NBC NIghtly News Story Airs - February 20, 2009

Janet Shamlian from NBC News visits the Purple Songs Can Fly studio. Her beautiful story featuring songwriters Mary Jo Stavinoha and Alex Harkins airs on the Making a Difference segment with Brian Williams.

Click here to view the story online:
http://www.txccc.org/content.cfm?content_id=1720

CBS Evening News Visits the studio - January 14, 2009

The CBS Evening News visits the Purple Songs Can Fly studio.
Angelica writes and records a song about her puppy named Hope and Gracie comes back to the studio to sing and talk about her song, Work of Art.
It was a fun day!
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