Mission
Notes with a Purpose harnesses the transformative and healing power of music to strengthen connection, wellbeing, and belonging across our community.
We design and steward programs that bring professional teaching artists into partnership with caregivers, community organizations, and allied institutions to create meaningful musical experiences for individuals and families navigating vulnerable, transitional, or high-stress circumstances. Our work begins with Lullaby Project – Southern Nevada, which supports caregivers, babies, and families through collaborative songwriting, reflection, and song-sharing that nurtures both parent and child.
Vision
We envision a Southern Nevada in which music is recognized not as a luxury, but as an essential human resource for healing, connection, and hope.
We believe every family deserves the chance to be seen, heard, and supported through experiences that affirm dignity, deepen belonging, and strengthen the bonds that shape early life. By building partnerships across the arts, healthcare, social services, and education, we seek to create a community where music helps families thrive, where caregivers are empowered in their own voices, and where children begin life surrounded by love, expression, and possibility.
Our Flagship Program: The Lullaby Project
Lullaby Project – Southern Nevada is the flagship program of Notes with a Purpose, bringing Carnegie Hall’s Lullaby Project to young mothers and families in vulnerable circumstances across Southern Nevada. This is a program of Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute. Through this program, new and expecting mothers are paired with professional teaching artist musicians to write and record personal lullabies for their babies. Each lullaby is rooted in the parent’s own voice, story, hopes and love, creating a lasting musical keepsake for her child. The program sits at the intersection of the arts, maternal health and family wellbeing. It supports parent-child bonding, maternal confidence, early childhood development and emotional connection through a compassionate creative process. In Southern Nevada, Notes with a Purpose partners with community organizations serving mothers, children and families, using music as a tool for healing, dignity, belonging and human connection.
Our History
From 2016-2020, Notes with a Purpose reached over 12,500 children across 52 elementary schools and 4,000 disenfranchised adults through innovative music programming, including:
Music: Mission Live – Live concerts in homeless shelters, creating moments of connection, dignity, and joy for residents.
Music JuiceBox Series – Interactive performances in elementary schools introducing young students to diverse instruments and genres.
Pop-Up Community Events like Carnival of the Animals at the Las Vegas Natural History Museum – A family-friendly concert blending live music and storytelling in a museum setting.
