Ideas For Making A Bigger Impact With Music + Tri-M In Your Community

Here are the ideas (duplicates combined) shared by the participants in Fran Kicks FMEA
Professional Development Conference session on Thursday, January 15, 2015.

28 POINTS

Bracelet and every day/week you have to compliment someone who you think
needs/deserves it and give them the bracelet.

NOTE: Check out these Positivity Bracelets sold in sets of three.

http://www.choosehope.com/product/positivity-bracelet-set-of-3

27 POINTS

Small group of kids use known tune (i.e. Twinkle Twinkle, Happy Birthday) to write
appreciation song for teachers. Perform for teach appreciation day.

26 POINTS

Bang on stuff for free! Put a full set of drumline instruments in an open public area and
have a few players who know a drum beat set a groove for other people to play with or
jam out to. Everybody loves bangin on drums. Why not let the world join in on the fun?

Small ensembles put together a Veterans appreciation song to perform for local VFW
groups.
25 POINTS

Set up a Prism-style concert with small groups in public space. Have high school and
middle school buddies perform together. High school student led with even adult
beginner music students.

Play for people in hospitals.

24 POINTS

Take our members from our program to help build a house for Habitat for Humanity.
http://www.habitat.org

Go into daycare centers at each holiday and sing+play songs with them. Five Little
Pumpkins, Jingle Bells, Ghost of John, etc. Even make a craft or goodie bag for them.

When singing at a local tree lighting have the little kids who watch conduct Santa
Clause Is Coming to Town with sparkly batons so they are a part of making music.

Create a Christmas Jazz Band Charity flash mob.

23 POINTS

Performing for a community Rotary Club or at a retirement home.

https://www.rotary.org/en/search/club-finder

22 POINTS

Traveling piano recital using portable keyboards.

Get a group of student musicians to play at a local childrens hospital.

Sing in the stairwells (good acoustics) and tell the choir were going on a field trip.

Have a Christmas Party and make the admission price one new unwrapped toy. Give the
toys away to a local group that gives toys to underprivileged children.

Street-corner singing at community Christmas Tree lighting event and throughout the
holiday season.

Concert Orchestra playing in a venue such as airport terminals, old-folks home, mall,
town square, public place.

Coffee House: Allowing any students in school a venue to perform (not just music
students).
21 POINTS

Playing music for people in a nursing home.

Carols at nursing home/hospital or instrument petting zoo at childrens hospital.

Tutoring music lessons for the middle school next door.

Visiting nursing homes around the holidays.

Symphony Orchestra of classical music performed for nursing homes or for hospice patients.

Hold auditions for a rock band in the school and form it with chosen students. They could
tour and perform in the community.

20 POINTS

Marching band camp for young kids.

Perform with elementary kids (to inspire 5th graders) at various cafes, pizzerias, and
public locations so community watches how group grows.

Singing at a hospice location.

Do a small concert with some of the songs your band really knows well. Do it in a
childrens hospital. Let the children conduct any piece they like.

19 POINTS

Basketball pep band and inviting the fifth-grade and sixth-grade young band students to
play with the more advanced bands.

Valentines Singing Grams.

Military recognition and thanks through music.

Offer free music lessons through local schools.

Singing-grams in hospital for kids and adults making musical gifts to give them.

Going to and old-folks home and singing up and down the hallways.

Flash mob of big group to advertise school musical. (To be done in the cafeteria during
lunch period and local mall weekend before.)

Jazz Band Concert on tour at an assisted living home.

18 POINTS

Organizing a flash mob at a school or community cafeteria to involve strangers with a

random group of people to build music-sharing.

YouTube Grams: Make personalized music videos for any occasion.

Caroling at Christmas through the administrative buildings at our school.

Perform at hospice.

Happy Birthday grams for fundraiser and student ensembles coordinate who will
play/sing for other students to purchase grams for friends.

Our Tri-M chapter host an acoustic night where any student at the school can perform.
Its usually outside in a very casual, fun atmosphere.

17 POINTS

Happy Birthday video calls via Skype. Started by students calling parents and siblings.
Continued and grew into weekly birthday messages to teachers, friends and extended
family members.

Offer to perform at local civic events, school board meetings, and parents night.

Chorus picks a charity that one of the kids is involved withwere doing seeing-eye
dogs training this year.

Singing Valentine/Valentines Day Serenades.

Perform at Middle School lunch to show how band/choir/orchestra is in future.

Play at a Senior Citizen Center/Retirement Homes for any occasion or sing oldies that
they may relate to.

Create random theme song for individuals.

16 POINTS

Music-grams dedicated to other students and on the morning show.

Surround-Sound Concerts (where the performers surround the audience).