Music Therapy

Organizations

C.A.M.M.O.

C*A*M*M*O the Center for American Military Music Opportunities, is committed to the principles of servant leadership with peer serving peer – American service member and veteran serving veteran. C*A*M*M*O builds the skills of musicianship and performance, putting our service members in touch with leading industry talent development specialists, extending career opportunities left unattainable to military personnel, and presents performances, concerts, and workshops to audiences of all ages.

There are three prongs to the C*A*M*M*O mission:

To create therapeutic programming and outlets for service members and veterans

To train and educate veterans in music industry career opportunities

To develop top-notch music artists

Combat Vet Productions

http://combatvetproductions.org/

Combat Vet Productions was created by a Veteran, musician, and producer for fellow Vets to share their artistic, musical, and creative talents with one another and the world. We offer both global and local services free to Combat Veterans in all aspects of the creative arts. We also provide resources for both active duty service members and Veterans of all eras.

Guitars for Vets

www.guitarsforvets.org

A non-profit organization designed to enhance the lives of ailing and injured veterans by providing them with guitars and music instruction. It is our hope that self expression through the gift of music will help restore the feelings of joy and purpose that can be lost after suffering trauma.

Operation Harmony (Soldiers Angels)

http://soldiersangels.org/operationharmony.html

Operation Harmony is a partnership with Yamaha Music & Wellness Institute to give American troops the ability and opportunity to heal and thrive through music. The Institute strives to improve quality of life through research, education and programs that focus on active music participation. Through Operation Harmony, this includes providing guitar and keyboard courses to wounded warriors and supplying instruments to service members on military bases throughout the world.

The partnership of Soldiers' Angels and Yamaha through Operation Harmony includes:

The Karl T. Bruhn Memorial Music Center at the Soldiers’ Angels Support Center in San Antonio, which hosts piano and guitar group instruction

Deploying The Clavinova Connection a wellness-based piano course from Yamaha, to veterans’ facilities throughout the United States

Developing music-making opportunities, including performing and recordings sessions, for returning veterans

Expanding Operation Soft Landing, a program that sends new guitars to soldiers in need around the world

Operation: Music Aid

www.operationmusicaid.org

Operation Music Aid was founded to supply guitars and keyboards to wounded military service personnel now in military hospitals for extended care. We supply the instruments to the hospitals and they are distributed as needed to assist in physical and psychological rehabilitation, as well as for morale. We want to make sure that these young men and women are not forgotten. Our goal is to get an instrument to every one of our heroes who have been injured defending our freedom.

Operation Music Aid is 100% A-political, and expresses no opinion on the merits of the current conflict. Our sole purpose is to deliver instruments to the hospitals for the wounded. All instruments received at the hospitals become the property of the individual patients.

Operation Soundoff - Music recording and performing opportunities

http://operationsoundoff.blogspot.com/

Operation: Sound Off! (OSO) provides music recording and performing opportunities to active and veteran military personnel with musical aspirations they put on hold to serve their country. We believe these efforts can help with rehabilitation, reintegration, and give them an opportunity to tell their stories through music.

OSO was created by Grammy Award winning artist, Robert Reynolds (The Mavericks), and producer/arranger, Scotty Huff (The Mavericks, Keith Urban), to help facilitate the musical dreams of these brave and talented individuals for the sacrifices they’ve made to protect our very freedom to dream. We think they’ve earned it! This includes time in full-service recording facilities, with professional recording engineers, music producers, songwriters, and accompaniment by world-class musicians, all at no cost to them. This will culminate in an ongoing series of “best of” albums, spanning all genres, digital downloads, concert tours, and an episodic television production.

Resounding Joy (San Diego, CA)

http://www.resoundingjoyinc.org/programs/military-outreach/

Resounding Joy works directly with returning military service members who are diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Traumatic Brain Injury, Alcohol and Drug Addictions, and other psychological and physical ailments related to combat stress and trauma. Current funding for all military programs is provided by the Semper Fi Fund. Resounding Joy is honored to work closely with the military providing music therapy services and promoting supportive musical environments amongst active and retired military members.

Strumming for Vets

www.strummingforvets.org

Most of you are aware of the sacrifices our veterans have made for us. What many people are not aware of is the continuing sacrifices vets face when they come home. Repeated surgeries and years of rehab and adjustment. Some pretty tough stuff.

Strumming for Vets is an organization that has come up with a way to help restore the feeling of joy and self-worth that can be lost after extreme trauma. With donated guitars and teachers donating their time, these vets are given a new type of therapy that works!

Your donation of musical equipment (guitars, stands, tuners, etc.) would be greatly appreciated. A generous donation of $100.00 will buy a vet a brand new guitar.