A member project of the North Star Community Foundation.
Partnering with communities to provide a safe environment for creative exploration and expression.
Healing Through Music and Dance (HTMD) shares skills to create music and dance; clears a path for safe and creative expression of feelings; and begins trauma recovery. HTMD returns to communities to build lasting relationships through trust and open dialogue.
By listening to the needs of communities and youth, HTMD uses music and dance to foster connectedness and self-expression in a safe and creative environment. HTMD offers interactive workshops, concerts, and dance opportunities in communities.
“Our village and especially our children are grateful and so blessed, to have Mike Stevens spend time with us. He is amazingly talented and brings so much energy, joy and happiness to our community!
The kids walk the streets and play their harmonica’s for days after his trip here. Music is so important in the lives of our children, it brings them alive and makes them happy! We all need music in our lives.”
— Cynthia Erickson, founder of My Grandmas House, Tanana, AK
Mike Stevens has been appointed to the Order of Canada, one of the country’s highest honours!
“Mike Stevens is a virtuoso harmonica player, composer, and author. For more than 40 years, he has entertained audiences nationally and abroad and won acclaim at the world-famous Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. His music tours in Canada’s North are the subject of three documentaries that showcase his philanthropy and prodigious musical gifts.”
Learn more about the Order of Canada and its remarkable appointees here.
This project is funded in part by the Alaska Mental Health Trust.
HTMD is supported in part by Creative West and the National Endowment for the Arts.
