Supporting Music

Supporting Music – Gardner MA

The City of Gardner Massachusetts has accomplished successes in Supporting Music, including, but not limited to:

GardnerMagazine.com spoke with Gardner MA Michael Nicholson about the support of music in Gardner, Massachusetts. Here’s what he told us:

Mayor Nicholson: You know Music is one of the things that’s very near and dear to my heart. As I’ve said several times, Werner, I found my closest friends through music programs that I had in school. But its also the universal language. And growing up in a bilingual family with my grandparents speaking Spanish on one side and speaking English on the other one, everyone understood music and everyone could enjoy a tune whether you knew what the lyrics were or not. And that’s something that I think really brings people together. But its also very emblematic of what my view is of how we work here in Gardner, but also just life in general. And not to sound too philosophical for a moment, but when you sit on a concert stage and you’re getting ready to perform with either a band or an orchestra, or something like that, no 2 instruments have the same musical alike, everyone’s playing a different line, everyone has a different melody, a countermelody, a harmony, a bass line for things of that nature, and if you play each line by itself, its as boring as it can be. But when you build all those differences together, and how they overlap with each other, that’s where you get that rich feeling that really pulls on your heartstrings and gives you that enjoyable feeling that really sticks with you. And that’s something that I think we need to take on a larger level with everything that were doing. And how we need to not work in silos here in City Hall. To how we interact with members of the public. And that’s one of the reasons why we’ve supported things like the elementary school band getting more resources and up to date equipment. For our music programs, With the 100 dollars zero free cash earmark we allocated to all of our 3 school buildings in terms of their music programs. Last year working with the Sousa Band to get them to perform in Gardner last year. Having the new live music events like the concerts in the parks, but also the Seven Day Weekend concert that we’re having, are just ways for people to get out and find some time and enjoy what’s going on. And that’s one of the reasons why music does make the world go around. Is it, we may not all like the same music that’s out there, and we may have a very wide variety of music that we find enjoyable, but there’s someone who likes some type of music out there. And whether it’s what you like or what someone else likes, music is something that can bring anyone together