Oregon Symphony and Path Home Present the 2025 Lullaby Project – Preview

A spokesperson describes the event as follows:

“...Conceived by Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute, the Lullaby Project uses the creative process of songwriting to improve well-being and childhood bonds with parents experiencing housing insecurity and other challenging life situations. This project originally came to Portland in 2018 as a partnership with Path Home, a non-profit helping empower families experiencing homelessness to get back into stable, long-term housing. Together with musicians from the Oregon Symphony and local singer-songwriters, parents and parents-to-be create personal lullabies or love songs for their children through this project, expressing their hopes and dreams for the future. This creative collaboration harnesses the transformative joy of music, utilizing it to strengthen the bonds between parent and child, and connecting community through the power of the performing arts.
Kicking off the process in March 2025, the lullabies for this project are being written in a close, collaborative process between the families at Path Home and the local singer-songwriters. During early creative sessions, the songwriters have been working one-on-one with participants to capture each family’s personal story, hopes, and dreams for the future with their child. The lullabies are then arranged and professionally recorded before being performed live at the Alberta Rose Theatre in a one-night-only moving musical event..."