Music on a Mission: The KidLinks Story

Music on a Mission: The Story of KidLinks gives the history to date of an organization that's won multiple awards-three Parents' Choice Awards, a Family Channel Seal of Quality, American Library Association Notable Children's Recording recognition, and a Parent's Guide Children's Media Award, among many others. But the significance of KidLinks' work is more apparent in its impact on children and families-and even health-care staff-than from any accolades received.KidLinks therapeutic music places a premium on children's emotional needs. The songs contain thoughtful but easily understandable lyrics, carrying messages that severely ill youth need to hear. Compositions are carefully arranged to allow easy access to those messages in an engaging manner designed to capture and retain the listener's attention. The underlying motivation was not to gain fame or fortune but to help children get through their medical challenges.Music on a Mission is also the story of Jim Newton. Jim believed he must take these songs directly to the audience that most needed to hear them: hospitalized children. During his earliest visits, Jim sometimes sensed he might be more in the way than helpful. Nurses were accustomed to executing doctors' orders, and live music was not on the list of prescribed treatment options.As Music on a Mission inspires and entertains, the book also shows how KidLinks emerged out of unexpected origins and overcame countless challenges in its relentless passion to provide the power of music for children in need. Forty years on, KidLinks remains devoted to delivering healing, hope, and happiness through music and media for children everywhere.

• | Author: Larry V. Dykstra
• | Publisher: Inspired Forever Books
• | Publication Date: Sep 02, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 214 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Music
• | ISBN-10: 1948903717
• | ISBN-13: 9781948903714