A local music movement hopes to help children struggling with mental health.
One Minneapolis dad is using music to create awareness around specific children's issues.
Tom Fugleberg is the creator of music project, “Songs Written in the Key of Hope”, a response in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the pandemic.
“We're a Minneapolis-based songwriting project that makes its goal hope through music,” Fugleberg explains.
The project already includes collaborators like Prince’s longtime keyboardist, and a former bandmate of Kelly Clarkson's. Fugleberg's goal is to create a fully realized project to raise funds for local youth mental health services.
“That became a real focal point for us, how do we shine a ray of hope into the places that are sometimes the last places to receive it,” says Fugleberg.
“Songs Written in the Key of Hope” is trying to attract more musicians to the project as well a local mental health organization partner.
“We are a Minneapolis-based songwriting project with a singular goal of spreading hope and love through music,” it says on their website. “Now, we’re forming a band of believers to do that on a more profound level. By using the universal power of music to amplify the children’s mental health crisis. And do something about it.”