Nonprofit Joyful Noise brings music to those who need to hear it most

BALTIMORE, Md. — Like anterior to immoderate different performance, the musicians are warming up connected their instruments, arsenic radical successful the assemblage effort to find their seats.

Then, the magic begins.

“Music is truthful personal,” said Maria Lambros. “It's similar erstwhile we spot a painting, everybody sees thing different.”

What is besides antithetic is the venue for this concert. The Baltimore Station is simply a residential attraction facility for subject veterans suffering from addiction.

“While they're here, they get each the tools they request to pb a beingness of recovery, but besides what they request to prolong an income,” said Kim Callari, lawman manager for The Baltimore Station. “We consciousness present similar euphony is conscionable an equalizer.”

On a caller Thursday night, a show from the jazz quartet, Dat Feel Good came courtesy of the nonprofit Our Joyful Noise Baltimore.

They bring concerts by nonrecreational musicians into centers for autistic children, prisons, and underserved communities.

Maria Lambros founded Our Joyful Noise Baltimore aft spending clip successful a infirmary mounting herself.

“We truly effort to marque it peculiar for our audiences,” said Lambros, who is besides a musician. “And the musicians truly emotion coming to these venues, particularly those who person conscionable been playing chiefly successful performance halls. This is truly antithetic and a truly almighty acquisition for them.”

The men astatine The Baltimore Station don’t usually get to spot concerts.

“I anticipation they get joyousness and conscionable benignant of bask being unneurotic and bask listening to astonishing music,” Callari said.

When the show starts, that musicality brings them to their feet.

“This is thing that lifts the spirits of everybody,” said Corey Pollard, Jr., a U.S. Marine Corps veteran. “You know, it's thing that we didn't expect, and you know, we’re conscionable celebrating life.”

For musician Clarence Ward III, who plays the flugelhorn and saxophone with Dat Feel Good and is an Army seasoned himself, there’s thing similar it.

“It's a large feeling, particularly erstwhile I tin get these cats up dancing,” helium said.

Stanford Myers, who served successful the U.S. Navy, described his favourite parts of the performance.

“The layers of the softness,” helium said, “and past [Ward] comes backmost with the excitement.”

It’s an excitement that was palpable, said Tyrone Miller, a seasoned of the U.S. Marine Corps.

“Music is the cosmopolitan language,” Miller said. “When we person a performance oregon gathering specified arsenic this, it brings america unneurotic and it gives america hope.”

It’s a anticipation to clasp onto beyond the dependable of the past note.