Music Heals Minds places music therapists in mental health facilities across North Carolina and Tennessee, donates instruments and songwriting journals to patients who need them, and honors the memory of Cole Rassin — a songwriter whose music keeps reaching the people his songs were written for.
When Hannah brought me six of Cole's unfinished songs in 2018, I watched her make a decision. She was going to finish them. She was going to release them. She was going to make sure Cole's music kept reaching people.
That became the Sunny Day album. Then an event at the Brooklyn Arts Center. Then the three of us — Hannah, Cole's mother Mary, and me — deciding we weren't done.
Today, Music Heals Minds places music therapists in mental health facilities in North Carolina and Tennessee. We donate instruments. We fund grants in Cole's name.
Every guitar in a therapy room, every songwriting journal in a patient's hands, is because Cole's friends and family decided his music wasn't going to stop.
If you're here, thank you. If you can, help us keep going.
Three programs, one mission — putting music where it's needed most.
We fund music-therapist grants in outpatient mental health facilities across NC and TN — getting trained therapists to patients who need them.
Guitars, keyboards, drums, sheet music, songwriting journals — donated to rehab hospitals, SHORE programs, and community therapy facilities.
Grants in Cole Rassin's name keep his songs — and what his music reached for — moving forward, one patient at a time.
The album that started it all. Six of Cole's unfinished songs, recorded and released by his friend Hannah Kol in 2018, after Cole died. The event that launched Music Heals Minds was the album's release party.
Franklin Theatre, April 2025 — moved last-minute from Amy Grant's Farm when tornadoes swept Nashville. The community showed up anyway.
Businesses who stand with Music Heals Minds. Join them and put your brand alongside Cole's story at the November 6 event and across the year.
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