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Nov 17th, 2005 - 12:05:58 |
Laura Corlin
KEEPING “TRU” TO THEIR MISSION, & JUST IN TIME FOR THE HOLIDAY SEASON, NH & MA YOUTH SINGERS RELEASE THIRD ALBUM CALLED “TRU HOLIDAYS” AND OFFER HOLIDAY GIFT GIVING IDEAS THAT MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO CHILDREN IN HOSPITAL WARDS!
18-year-old Strafford, NH Resident Laura Corlin, and the vocal cast of The Difference Music Makes are proud to announce the much-anticipated release of volume III in "The Difference Music Makes Album Series." This compilation CD, named “Tru Holidays” is a collection of traditional favorites, some performed in exciting and new non-traditional ways. These music CDs, now three in the entire series, make wonderful holiday gifts! All three will make great stocking stuffers and will appeal to listeners of all ages. There is a music CD in this series for everyone! Every time someone purchases a Difference Music Makes product, a child in a hospital will receive a gift from the Difference Music Makes program. And that is a gift that will keep on giving, all year long. Go to the StarMight Foundation web site at www.starmightfoundation.org and learn about more great gift giving ideas, including the “You’re A Star” program that also bring gifts to a child in a hospital ward!
To purchase your own “Difference Music Makes” music CD, go to our web site at www.starmightfoundation.org, Or mail your check or money order of $10 for each Volume I – Tru Colors, $10 for each Volume II, $15 for each Volume III - Tru Holidays CD or $30 for the complete set of all 3 CDs in the series, plus $2.50 for shipping and handling to: The StarMight Foundation, 67 Spruce Pond Drive, Strafford, NH 03884. For more information or if you would like to arrange an interview, please contact Laura, Pat or Meagan Corlin at the StarMight office at 603-664-9983 or e-mail at starmightfoundation@hotmail.com
In keeping with their “Tru Mission” to bring music to young hospital patients fighting life-threatening diseases, on January 10th, 2006, the cast of The Difference Music Makes will present a live holiday performance at The Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital at the Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine. Young hospital patients will receive musical gift bags with music CDs, personal CD players and a variety of small gifts. This performance will be dedicated to the memory of Alex Sasseville. Alex was a patient at the Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital before losing his battle with cancer, at the all too young age of thirteen. Alex’s brother Jake Sasseville has founded the Xander Foundation hoping to honor Alex’s memory by providing support for children with cancer. Past performances for the cast of The Difference Music Makes have included the Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth/Hitchcock in NH, The San Diego Children’s Hospital in CA and The St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital in TN.
Founded in 2002 by, then 15 year old, New Hampshire resident, Laura Corlin, "The Difference Music Makes Series" is a 501c-3 non-profit community service project created primarily to provide young hospital patients with the gift of music during treatment for cancer and other life-threatening diseases. To date, over $30,000 in music CDs, CD players and financial contributions for medical research, and live performances have been delivered to children’s hospital facilities coast to coast in the United States and overseas in Dublin, Ireland. With every printing of 1,000 music CDs, 500 copies are donated to children in hospital wards. Volume I, named "The Difference Music Makes," is a solo album of favorite children’s songs, recorded and independently produced by Laura Corlin. Volumes II and III are compilation albums performed by a cast of 15 extremely gifted recording artists, ages 10 through 21. All independently produced by Ms. Corlin, the cost of manufacturing the CDs has been self-funded by the young artists themselves, sales of their music CDs, and through fund raising efforts supported by the general public and sponsor contributions from area businesses!
Supported by The StarMight Foundation, the project goals include:
1. Provide young patients with music and its “healing benefits,” during treatment periods and long hospital stays and personal CD players for them to listen to the music on.
2. Provide mentor and education programming that offer youth volunteer service opportunities, leadership experiences and action planning programs that youth can use to bring this service program into their communities and hospital wards.
3. Raise funds for the research of life-threatening pediatric diseases through sales of the Music CD Children’s Series called "The Difference Music Makes."
4. Provide a vehicle for professional musicians and storytellers to join in the sharing of their art with children receiving hospital treatments.
Photographs and interviews available upon request. Please contact the StarMight office at 603-664-9983 or e-mail at starmightfoundation@hotmail.com.
Jun 5th, 2005 - 09:39:42 |
Laura Corlin
Young New Hampshire Ambassadors complete journey to West Coast,
Share gift of music with young patients at San Diego Children’s Hospital.
Four young singers spent their school vacations flying across the country to bring a little music to children fighting life-threatening diseases. Lindsey Graham is a resident of Sandown, NH and a senior at St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Dover, NH. Laura Corlin, Meagan Corlin and Matthew Gagnon call Strafford, NH home. Laura Corlin is a senior at Coe Brown Academy in Northwood, NH. Meagan Corlin is a Psychology Major at the University of Rhode Island and Matthew Gagnon has recently moved to the Los Angeles, CA area. All four musicians are part of a talented cast of youth performers involved in a musical community service project called The Difference Music Makes. Founded by Laura Corlin, The Difference Music Makes has donated just over $30,000 worth of music CDs, personal CD players and donations for medical research of life threatening pediatric diseases to hospitals across the US. 1,000 young patients have received music CDs recorded by Ms. Corlin and a cast of eleven other youth talented youth from New Hampshire and Massachussetts. The cast of The Difference Music Makes Volume II “Tru Colors” was invited to bring their music program to California by the CEO of the San Diego Children’s Hospital, Mr. Blair Sadler. Mr. Sadler met Ms. Corlin in Washington, DC when she was awarded the Blair Sadler International Arts in Healthcare Scholarship in 2004. Four out of the twelve cast members accepted Mr. Sadler’s invitation and at their own expense, flew across the county during their February vacation. During their visit to the hospital, the cast members received a tour of the facility and provided two live performances right in the children’s ward. Patient’s arrived on foot, in wheel chairs and even in their hospital beds, which were rolled into the area. Family members and hospital staff filled the room to capacity and spilled out into the hallway. Each singer provided a selection of solo performances that included both inspirational and upbeat song selections. An impromptu acappella compilation by all four singers ended the show to a huge round of applause. At the conclusion of each performance the cast members visited with the patients and their families and distributed the Difference Music Makes gift bags, The 50 gift bags included music CDs produced and recorded by the young Difference Music Makes singers, as well as, CDs donated by professional musicians including Grammy Award winner Kenny Loggins, NAPPA Award winner Sherry Kondor, Carol King’s youngest daughter, and NH’s own Parent’s Choice Award Winners Steve Blunt & Ellen Edson. The gift bags also contained brand new personal CD players for all of the children to listen to their new music on which were purchased through a $1,000 Youth Venture Grant that Ms. Corlin received for the project.
Channel One News, out of Los Angeles, CA joined the cast of The Difference Music Makes morning performance, in order to film a feature segment of the service program for their “Power Of One” teen feature series. The film crew not only filmed the performance but also interviewed each of the performers, and spent the day with the cast while they visited some of the young patients in their hospital rooms. Viewed by more than 8 million teens a day, Channelone.com’s “Power of One” is the idea that one person or group can make an impact, no matter how old they are. It's the belief that anyone has the potential to make a difference, whether in their hometown or in countries halfway around the world. Real teens are featured on Channel One News' Power of One. They're inventors, fund-raisers and artists. They're musicians and scientists. They just have one thing in common -- they're teens making a difference in the world. The segment on The Difference Music Makes is being produced by Mary Haynes and features is expected to air during the month of May in forty-Eight of the United States. For more information go to their web-site at www.channelone.com and “The Power of One” direct link at http://www.channelone.com/power/about/ . Or e-mail Ms. Mary Haynes at mhaynes@channelone.com
For more information or to make a donation to The Difference Music Makes, contact Laura Corlin at The Difference Music Makes can be found on the web directly at: http://www.starmightfoundation.org/differencemusicmakesIndex.html
Sponsored by the StarMight Foundation, a non-profit organization empowering youth to make a difference, The Difference Music Makes web page is generously donated by Technical Consultants of Rochester, New Hampshire and can also be found at The StarMight Foundation Web-site at www.starmightfoundation.org. Or phone (603) 664-9983
Feb 26th, 2005 - 16:08:06 |
Laura Corlin
TEAM OF NH YOUTH RECEIVE A $1,000.00 SEED GRANT FROM YOUTH VENTURES, INC, TO PURCHASE CD PLAYERS FOR YOUNG PATIENTS AT NEW HAMPSHIRE AND CALIFORNIA CHILDREN’S HOSPITALS
Laura Corlin, founder of the Difference Music Makes and team leader of the musical cast of “TRU COLORS” gladly receives a $1,000.00 check from Regional Director, Jim Hamil and staff of the New Hampshire office for Youth Ventures, Inc. Ms. Corlin and eleven other youth singers will use the money to purchase 100 CD players for children at the NH Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth/Hitchcock Medical Facility and the San Diego Children’s Hospital in California. “The team and I are just so honored” from Ms. Corlin. “We are thrilled with this kind of support. If it weren’t for this check we would not have been able to buy the children these CD players to listen to their new music on. We are really excited to become as a Youth Venture Team!” Ms. Corlin is referring to the acceptance of her service program into a national network of youth service programs, through the Youth Venture organization. which brings music CDs to children in hospitals who are being treated for life threatening illnesses. She has independently recorded and produce two music CDs with 11 other youth singers from New England. This group of entertainers, known as the Musical Youth Performers have donated 1,000 of their music CDs to hospitals across the country. The singers will travel to and perform for the children in the hospitals when they deliver the music gift bags. They will be performing at CHAD in NH on December 3rd and at San Diego Children’s Hospital during the month of February. You can learn more about this cast of singers and purchase their music CDs on their website, hosted by The StarMight Foundation at: www.starmightfoundation.org
Youth Venture is a national nonprofit organization that is empowering a movement of young people who are shaping their communities and world. Youth Venture is dedicated to providing opportunities for young people (ages 12-20) to create, lead, and manage "ventures" -- clubs, organizations, or businesses -- that create some form of social good, contributing positively to the community. Among the broad range of supports that Youth Venture provides to help young people create and launch ventures is start-up grant funding. The New Hampshire office of Youth Venture just opened in Spring 2004. Ventures can be anything that young people dream up--from a club at their school which they feel is needed, to organizing a hot-line for kids who are being bullied, to creating a business fixing cars for a reduced fee for lower-income people... it can be anything that kids can imagine, connecting their interests and skills with the needs they see in their communities.
The StarMight Foundation will be hosting a Youth Venture Workshop in the spring of 2005 to lead other NH Youth towards fulfilling their dreams of starting their own Youth Venture. To learn more about this Youth Venture Workshop contact the StarMight Foundation office at 603-664-9983 or e-mail at starmightfoundation@hotmail.com.
Or Contact The NH Youth Venture Office at nh@youthventure.org or 603/724-2286.
10 Ferry Street, Suite #441, Concord, NH 03301.
Oct 16th, 2004 - 15:02:54 |
Laura Corlin
The Difference Music Makes team receives $500 award from the United Way and Federal Savings Bank. The donation will be used to purchase personal CD players for young patients at the Children's Hospital at Darthouth/Hitchcock, NH and the San Diego Children's Hospital in California. 
Aug 31st, 2004 - 12:25:10 |
Laura Corlin
TRU COLORS" Volume II in The Difference Music Makes music CD series is in production! RESERVE YOUR COPY TODAY as only 250 will be available to the general public! The remainder are being delivered to the young patients at the Children's Hospital at Dartmouth/Hitchcock in NH and the Children's Hospital in San Diego! To reserve your copy today go to http://www.starmightfoundation.org/differencemusicmakes.html 
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