Does music really make a difference in the world?

We'd like to think so. Public Domain Foundation has spent more than 30 years and almost 2 million dollars supporting children and family service organizations, domestically and abroad, through the royalties of just one composition, "The Wedding Song."

Our third Music to Life (MTL) awards and concert program once again presents a
collection of unpublished compositions dedicated to social and political concerns.

These 11 songs were screened from almost 180 entries by an esteemed panel of well established folk singers/songwriters including: Judy Collins, Christine Lavin, Holly Near, Tom Paxton, John Stewart, Noel Paul Stookey, Mary Travers and Peter Yarrow.

Finalists shared their original songs at the MTL concert at the Kerrville Folk Festival on June 3, 2006.

Grand Prize Winner Kate Power (Travis John) designated Adopt-a-Minefield as the recipient of the $1000 charitable donation prize in memory of Cpl. Travis John Bradach-Nall. Erik Balkey's (Cut 'Em Down) $500 First Runner Up prize will go to Habitat for Humanity International and Zane William's (The Big Picture) Second Runner Up $250 prize will be donated to World Relief, Inc. (Nashville, TN)

I just got the third Music To Life CD. TERRIFIC! All the music I play in my radio shows as well as all of the work of the New Song Library has to do with the power of song to convey social justice action in a way nothing else can... Thank you so much for putting these together. We need this music very much right now.
    -Johanna Halbeisen, Director, New Song Library, Northampton, MA