The brightly painted pianos of the Street Piano Project are a visible, and hands on way to engage our community in the joy of music. As part of our core mission, we have partnered with Huggins Hospital to share the message “Music Heals” throughout the Wolfeboro area.

Huggins Hospital is dedicated to the health and wellbeing of our community and that includes all aspects of health. Studies show that music can reduce anxiety, help with memory and help people recover from stroke or traumatic brain injury. Huggins Hospital provides music enrichment opportunities, including live music, to participants in the hospital’s Adult Day Program—a medical model program licensed by the state of NH and whose purpose is to help participants remain active and social as well as provide respite to caregivers. “Music helps them reminisce,” says ADP Coordinator Nelda Tobin, RN. “We help bring value to their lives – whether they suffer from social isolation, dementia or a type of impairment – and music truly helps us do that.”

The pianos will be placed throughout Wolfeboro to invite passersby to stop and play a few notes or a whole piece, at their leisure. Join Great Waters Music Festival and Huggins Hospital to spread a healing message through music on the streets of Wolfeboro this summer!