Purple Songs Can Fly celebrated its 10-year anniversary this month with the Journey to Hope gala at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts. In addition to the beautiful seated dinner, guests enjoyed an inspiring performance of Purple Songs Can Fly’s original musical, Journey to Hope, starring six pediatric cancer patients/survivors who shared their incredible stories and songs of hope. Carol Herron, coordinator of the Periwinkle Arts In Medicine program at Texas Children’s Cancer and Hematology Centers, was the gala honoree and received praise for her continued dedication to bringing the arts to patients.
Purple Songs Can Fly is a unique program that provides a musical outlet for children being treated for cancer and blood disorders at Texas Children’s Cancer and Hematology Centers. In this program, which is the first of its kind, the children work with founder, Anita Kruse, and other professional composers to write and record their own songs. In an in-house studio at Texas Children’s Cancer Center, composers work with children and their siblings to write, record, and burn songs to disc within short session.
Click here to listen to a Purple Songs Can Fly song that Dr. Jennifer Arnold and Texas Children’s patient Peyton Richardson created about their cancer journey and the importance of always remaining positive.