Nov 29 NFN ONline concert features 2 co-founders of NFN worldwide, performing together

 Since that is rather a rare event, we thought we'd devote this blog post to sharing a little bit about the history of Notes for Nourishment (NFN) concerts, for those who might be interested:

• The entire Notes for Nourishment concept was introduced by violist Erin Nolan while in a conversation with concert pianist (and Listen For Life founder) Donna Stoering, many years ago now. Erin knew of several musicians who had causes they cared about and organizations they very much wanted to support, but not enough income that they could contribute in a meaningful way. 
• Erin and Donna together co-founded Notes for Nourishment concerts, with Erin designing the first logos and creating the blog site (still in use today). They launched the concept with duo recitals in cities throughout Europe and the USA, raising funds for a variety of organizations while creating a template that other musicians and volunteers could follow in their own locations. 
• Donna then created a monthly series of NFN concerts in various cities on the West Coast, and in Summer of 2019 she was invited to produce a daily series of different NFN concerts within the famed Piccolo Spoleto festival in Charleston, South Carolina, introducing artists from around the world and raising funds for 14 different South Carolina charities. 
• Meanwhile, a NFN series in San Francisco hosted a concert given by two young award-winning artists, pianist Josie Chan and violinist Pierce Wang. Fortunately for us, they both wanted to get more involved - soon Josie had created a new NFN website and launched our present NFN ONline series of livestreams and video concerts during Covid! She is now a director of the Notes for Nourishment projects while Pierce is assisting with a variety of IT and operational tasks and preparing to gradually become a director of the Listen For Life organization itself.  
• Two of our youngest-ever performers on the Notes for Nourishment concerts have also remained involved  - classical guitarists Eric Wang and Emilia Diaz Delgado. In fact, the NFN Online video concert that will be broadcast on November 29 was filmed in 3 cameras and then completely edited by 11-year-old Emilia (with some technical uploading for the broadcast by Pierce, and technical hosting by Josie on the day). 
• Another longtime Listen for Life and NFN youth volunteer, Savita Pereira, is now in college and composed a beautiful piece that was premiered worldwide on our September 21 NFN broadcast (you can catch it any time on our NFN YouTube channel:  LFLNotesForNourishment) - she made the lovely social media flyers for this November 29 concert as well. 

It has all been a real team effort to keep these concerts going during Covid, so we are extremely thankful to all of our young LFL and NFN team volunteers!! These concerts fly by in an hour or less, but they take countless hours of work to prepare, and we all do it with joy, in the hopes that it nourishes you, our audience!  We appreciate hearing from you. 

Our young volunteers and seasoned artists alike all hope that our audiences for these broadcasts will grow -  

So if you enjoy them, please invite your friends! 

Hope to see you on the 29th @ 7pm PST

and if you can't watch at that time, please find "Thanksgiving on Strings" November 29 video at  LFL NotesForNourishment channel on YouTube.