CHAIR’S MESSAGE Eight years ago it was an idea; seven years ago it was a pilot project and today, the Hamilton Music Collective’s An Instrument for Every Child, is a successful and vital community service that continues to grow and prosper with each passing year. The Hamilton Music Collective is headquartered at The Gasworks, 141 Park Street North, in the near north end of Hamilton. It is a warm and inviting “century” building, owned by the John & Ellie Voortman Foundation. It provides HMC with an ideal facility and location from which to work with the various elementary schools and community centres in which we run our programs. In addition, it is busily utilized for both in-house programming and the very popular Jazz at the Gasworks fundraising music performances, which take place September through April. On behalf of the Board of Directors of the Hamilton Music Collective (a talented, diverse and dedicated group of volunteer professionals), I would like to oer our sincere thanks and appreciation to Astrid Hepner and her hard-working team for yet another year of success with AIFEC and the newer, additional initiatives now being oered by HMC. “Eight years ago it was an idea; seven years ago it was to grow and prosper with each passing year.” “ ... a pilot project and today, the Hamilton Music Collective’s An Instrument for Every Child, is a successful and vital community service that continues None of this would be possible were it not for the generous nancial support received from those businesses, institutions and private donors who stepped forward to ensure that we
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