Sounds of Hope Project announces that the Peace Together Choir will be carrying on the mission/legacy of Sounds of Hope Project – that is:  to bring comfort and support through recorded music to people in need of spiritual and or physical healing by utilizing the donated time and talents of local musicians.

Peace Together Choir is an interfaith choir whose mission is to perform and record meaningful music to bring hope and peace to their listeners.  Peace Together Choir is a nonprofit organization which donates proceeds from CD sales and donations to charitable groups including Hospice of the Visiting Nurse Service.

SOHP will be dissolved into Peace Together Choir to create “Peace” and “Hope” TOGETHER.  All of SOHP’s CD inventory will be turned over to Peace Together Choir.

SOHP’s board thanks all loyal supporters of its mission throughout its 16 years of existence and would encourage all to follow and support Peace Together Choir’s worthy mission.

Soundsofhopeproject.org    contact: Mary Lou Lydecker, Laura Nary

Hopefulmusic.com              contact:  Kathy Meyer

Does your mom find music soothing?  Could she benefit from the comfort music can bring?  Is she in a nursing home and would enjoy listening to peaceful and relaxing music.  If so, please consider giving her of one of Sounds of Hope Project’s CDs.  For your donation of $10, Sounds of Hope Project can produce two CDs.  One is for you or your mother as our ‘thank you’ for your donation; the second CD will be given to a hospice, nursing home, hospital, shut-in or person in need to fulfill our mission.

A listing of all our CDs is under the Our Recordings tab on our website.   To donate, please email us at soundsofhopeproject@aol.com or send us a “snail” mail:

Sounds of Hope
P.O. 33193
North Royalton, Ohio 44133

or call us at 440-582-4350.

Your donation will benefit your mother and another.  Thank you!

Another way you can help Sounds of Hope Project without spending a dime is by using Amazon Smile. As you do your holiday shopping this year please sign up for AmazonSmile so that Sounds of Hope Project can receive donations from your eligible Amazon purchases at no extra cost you. If you shop on Amazon, please go to smile.amazon.com and select Sounds of Hope Project from the list of participating charities. The AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.5% of the price of eligible purchases to Sounds of Hope Project. You will see eligible products marked “Eligible for AmazonSmile donation” on their product detail pages.

You pay nothing extra, and SOHP gets help with our mission.

If you’ve already signed up for AmazonSmile, you can change your charitable organization to Sounds of Hope Project by signing into smile.amazon.com, going to your account, and selecting the option to change your charity using the navigation at the top of the page.

Thanks for using this easy and painless way to help us bring hope to others!

GivingTuesday.org will donate to organizations participating in their My Giving Story event. To read the story of our founder, Mary Lou Lydecker. and vote for her entry please go to .http//goo.gl/qHGXex. That will take you directly to Mary Lou’s picture and story on the GivingTuesday, MyGivingStory site. You will be asked to check “I am not a robot” then enter your email address. Mary Lou’s story will appear. Click on “vote”in the upper left corner.

Thank you for supporting SOHP and its mission. Please vote once a day from now until December 7.

Sounds of Hope Project has released its new CD, Rays of Hope. Previous blog posts explained the process of developing, recording, and producing our newest CD. It is finally here!

This CD of piano music combines the talents of our founder, Mary Lou Lydecker, and Mark Graham, pianist and piano technician at Baldwin Wallace University.

The music has a flavor of “classical meets turn of the century popular program music,” with selections ranging from upbeat to lilting, from love songs to contemplative songs. The classical genre on this CD includes Debussy’s Two Arabesques, Reverie, and Clare de lune. The more popular pieces range from Hawthorne’s Whispering Hope to Nevin’s Un Giotto in Venezia (a four song set).

To donate a CD to the organization of your choice and receive a copy for yourself as SOHP’s thank you, please call Mary Lou at 440-582-4350 or email us at soundsofhopeproj@aol.com to request more information.

Please sign up for AmazonSmile so that Sounds of Hope Project can receive donations from your eligible Amazon purchases at no extra cost you. If you shop on Amazon, please go to smile.amazon.com and select Sounds of Hope Project from the list of participating charities. The AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.5% of the price of eligible purchases to Sounds of Hope Project. You will see eligible products marked “Eligible for AmazonSmile donation” on their product detail pages.

You pay nothing extra, and SOHP gets help with our mission.

If you’ve already signed up for AmazonSmile, you can change your charitable organization to Sounds of Hope Project by signing into smile.amazon.com, going to your account, and selecting the option to change your charity using the navigation at the top of the page.

Thanks for using this easy and painless way to help us bring hope to others!

Music therapists and activities directors using our CDs in hospitals, hospices, and nursing homes suggested a CD of all string music. We’ve been working on that for about a year and released Strings of Hope in December.

Strings of Hope features two harp therapists, Sarah Schwartz and Melanie Brown, a classical guitarist, Robert Gruca, two violinists, Chin Kim and Sr. Gerda Moehler, with accompanists David Oei and Carolyn Hansen, and an Irish fiddle group called “The Clash of the Tartans” whose members are Alyssa Schreiber, violin; Erica Tompkins violin/bochran, Elizabeth Crowe, cell/banjo, and GeorgeannTropiano, guitar

Sounds of Hope’s new CD will be Strings of Hope featuring string instruments. The CD will feature wonderfully talented performers: two harpists, an Irish string group, a classical guitarist, and two violinists. We began recording last week.

Feedback from nursing home and hospices using SOHP’s CDs suggested that string music would be a welcome addition to our CD repertoire. We look forward to launching this exciting new CD later this year.

Saint Albert the Great parish’s (North Royalton, Ohio) craft show in December gave Sounds of Hope Project a way to sell and donate music CDs during the holidays. We also met so many wonderful people! Thank you to all who purchased CDs and to those who stopped to talk to us. We know the donated CDs you made possible will comfort those who hear them.

Sounds of Hope Project continues to spread hope by donating CDs this summer to David Simpson Hospice House and Ames Family Hospice (both part of Hospice of the Western Reserve), Continuum Care Hospice, Crossroads Hospice Valley View, Holy Family Hospice, and Vitas Hospice/Forest Park Center.