With Skye:
Music as a Connection Cure
What does the sky mean to you?
The Project
Between March 11-April 24, 2026, I visited 6 Alberta Health Services facilitates including hospitals, urgent cares, long term care units and adult day programs to perform my project, “Music as a Connection Cure.”
Some of the stories, voices, and music are shared here.
They are data. But also, more. More than numbers, evidence, proof.
They are human energies I felt and breathed, touched and were touched by.
I hope they serve as an ongoing testimony for the necessity of live music in all corners of our communities. Especially the vulnerable sectors.
I invite you to interact with the album and continue our conversation <3
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I invite you to interact with the album and continue our conversation <3 〰️
I’m grateful for the support of the Gerda Hnatyshyn Foudation, the Alberta Foundation of the Arts, the Calgary Arts Development, and the Canadian Music Center for making this project possible.
"Did the music make you feel more connected in some way?”
Patient and Staff Responses
“Yes - Music brings us together. As staff- I witnessed residents relax while you were playing.”
— Didsbury Hospital Unit One Staff“Absolutely. I don't know how to describe it. It was fantastic, wonderful, made me feel things. The light of life.”
— Bethany Homes Adult Day Care Client“Yes! music always makes me feel happy and the song about the sky made me feel so grateful to live in a country with such a beautiful sky!”
— High River Hospital Long Term Care Patient“Yes, made my day more beautiful”
— Chinook Winds Regional Hospital Patient“Emotional connections - felt happy with tears”
— Rocky View Hospital Patient“I was surprised by how engaged all the clients were. Everyone was connected to watching.”
— Bethany Homes Adult Day Care Volunteer
"If you experience pain/chronic pain, did the music help alleviate pain?”
Patient Responses
“I had a headache today but it feels much better.”
High River Hospital Long Term Care Unit Patient“Soothes the pain.”
— Didsbury Bethany PatientInterview Transcript from Rocky View Hospital Concert
TW: Okay, thank you so much. Uh, what is your name?
RO: My name is Roslin Owen.
TW: Roslin Owen. I saw you were closing your eyes and enjoying the music.
RO: Um, it it it took my body and um I can't believe how much I shook and just absolutely vibrated with it and it It was so beautiful and it's so the tears are totally happy tears but oh my god it was just I felt like I felt a a rub on my on my chin or my cheek. It's like I was being hugged. And but most of all, I'm I'm shocked at how much my body reacted in and shaking. Just it vibrated so much through the concert that I I can't I've never had my body do that.
TW: Yeah. I saw I think I noticed that it felt like your leg was moving with the music.
RO: I love music. I absolutely adore it. I don't play anything myself, but I do a lot of choreography or did a lot of choreography for dancing as a ballroom dance teacher.
TW: You're a ballroom dance teacher.
RO: Yeah. For 25 years. And so it's uh the music is fabulous. that there was places I've been having trouble with my hips and my back being really sore and this just it's like I can't believe how good it made your body feel good to listen to the music.
TW: Absolutely. Well, thank you for sharing that. Thank you.
“Very relaxed & comfortable.”
— Airdrie Adult Day Care Program Client