Volunteer Guide Needed

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Mondays, 5:30 PM - Lutheran Medical Center (Sunset Park, Brooklyn), general adult population *Car service provided if needed*


Musicians on call is an NPO the features weekly programs in health care facilities all over the New York City area, as well as Philadelphia and Nashville. We provide a guide and a musician to play music for patients. A guide's role is to lead the musician that is playing the program around the hospital floor, room to room, asking patients if they would like to hear a song, introducing them, etc. The programs last anywhere from an hour to two hours and begin at 5:30pm. Volunteers will be required to complete two training sessions with our official guide trainer and then will be ready to go! The commitment we ask for is 1 program per month, but will accept more or less as your schedule permits.

Musicians On Call, a nonprofit organization formed in 1999, brings live and recorded music to the bedsides of patients in healthcare facilities. Musicians On Call uses music to promote and complement the healing process for patients, families and caregivers.

About Us:
Musicians On Call was originally founded by Michael Solomon and Vivek Tiwary in the course of their volunteer work with The Kristen Ann Carr Fund at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

After a concert sponsored by the Kristen Ann Carr Fund, a hospital staff member raised the issue that some of the patients had been unable to attend the performance either because they were in treatment or too sick to leave their rooms. In response, Michael, Vivek and the musician went from room to room to play for those patients who had been unable to attend the concert. The one-on-one interaction of patient and musician created a crucial intimacy; the expressions on the faces of friends and family members at the patients' bedsides revealed a deep sense of connection and release. Musicians On Call was born!
For more information please visit our website at - www.musiciansoncall.org

To Volunteer please contact us via phone or email -
[email protected]
212-741-2549