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What is music?

December 13, 2024

"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words." I often recall this quote that appeared on a jazzy-blues poster featuring a smoky saxophone given to me by my mother, an opera singer in her youth.

Salt Lake County ZAP Program: Let's keep a good thing going!

October 23, 2024

The Salt Lake County ZAP program plays a vital role in our community by providing funding to 232 nonprofits, fostering a diverse and exciting arts and culture scene.

Vote YES for Salt Lake County ZAP to ensure Salt Lake County remains a vibrant and thriving community. Your support will help fund local arts, parks, and recreation programs that make our county a special place to live.

Thirty years of Heart & Soul!

July 01, 2024

Join us as we celebrate 30 years of bringing hope, healing and joy through live music in 2024!

Heart & Soul is celebrating a round-number anniversary this year.

In the fall we’ll put on a big anniversary event, and we’ll keep you posted about that. (Will there be cake?) Before that, we’re looking forward to the HEART & SOUL MUSIC STROLL on Saturday, June 8, and there’s information below about how you can be involved.

Heart & Soul Music Stroll 2024

April 09, 2024

Sugar House - June 8th, 2024

This is the 10th year for Music Stroll! Free, Family-friendly Music Stroll in Sugarhouse, June 8, 2024 - Heart & Soul Brings Over 40 Bands to Neighborhood Porches. For the tenth year, Heart & Soul, along with the neighbors surrounding the Imperial Park, will present our incredible, free, one-day music festival.

The Impact of a Heart & Soul show

April 04, 2024

Denver Street Irregulars perform for residents at Pine Creek Rehab and Nursing.

Dear Heart &Soul,

My name is Phil Hansen and I work at Pine Creek Nursing and Rehab (formerly Westside). I have been here for 15 years. During many of those years Heart & Soul have come to entertain my residents and staff. I thought I was having them come to help give some entertainment, and a break during the day. I was wrong. They have been very entertaining! They have given a break from the normal day. My residents love listening to the music. BUT that is a very very small piece of what all of the performers have done. Let me explain.

Warm wishes from the heart (and soul)

December 21, 2023

Maybe you’re not a musician. Maybe you don’t have time to serve on a board of directors. Maybe you don’t have family in a care facility. But, just as people in big cities know the value of wilderness, and just as people without animal companions know the value of having a pet, every human spirit knows the healing power of live music.

Enjoy the tunes, help bring more!

November 21, 2023

Heart & Soul was started in 1994 when siblings, Doug Jenson and Janna Lauer saw the isolation and loneliness their mother suffered upon entering a rehabilitation facility due to a broken hip complicated with dementia. Their mother had been the musical center of their family - and they knew that music was the language that helps to transcend loneliness and that brings us all together.