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Professional musicians bring live music to patients and caretakers, free.

Regular musical visits for hospice, hospital, memory care and rehab patients of all ages, with special scheduling for end-of-life visits. Most are in person around the SF Bay Area; Zoom visits reach anywhere in the U.S.

For Activity Directors

Facilities, patients and families are never charged. Monthly or bi-monthly visits from vetted professional musicians, with special scheduling for end-of-life visits.

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For Donors & Supporters

Your gift pays the musicians who make every visit, so no patient or family ever gets a bill.

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Upcoming Musical Visits:
Nov 5: Merrill Gardens at BrentwoodNov 10: VA Hospital Menlo Park CDLNov 11: The Park View of PleasantonNov 11: Carlton Senior Living - Pleasant HillNov 12: Sunrise of DanvilleNov 13: Oakmont of Mariner Point - AlamedaNov 13: Memory Care of Contra Costa - Pleasant HillNov 16: Brookdale DanvilleNov 19: VA of MartinezNov 19: Merrill Gardens at Lafayette
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A visit brings live music to patients where they are.

It isn't formal music therapy. The music lifts spirits and takes patients' and their caretakers' minds off their challenges.

A jazz combo with keys, upright bass and a singer plays at a VA Happy Hour while a patient plays a hand drum with them.
At a VA Happy Hour, a veteran sat in on percussion.
A guitarist sings by the piano while patients sit in armchairs around a bright memory care common room.
A visit in a memory care common room.
Veterans gather at tables in the Martinez VA day room, decorated with streamers, as a musician plays at a mic stand by the windows.
The day room at the Martinez VA.

The musician comes to you

Your patients don't go anywhere. The music comes to where they already are, and families and caretakers listen right alongside them, making memories together.

Built around the patients in the room

Every visit is interactive. Musicians tailor the music to the patients in front of them, and patients can share favorite songs and make requests.

Monthly or bi-monthly, on your calendar

Your facility gets regular visits from vetted, paid professional musicians. End-of-life visits get special scheduling.

Communities that welcome our musicians

Brookdale Danville logo
Carlton Senior Living logo
Creekwood Senior Home logo
Discovery Commons San Ramon logo
George Mark Children's House logo
Ivy Park logo
Marbella logo
Memory Care of Contra Costa logo
Merrill Gardens at Brentwood logo
Silverado Belmont Hills Memory Care Community logo

What Is Harmony & Healing?

A short film about Harmony & Healing.

Where our musicians are visiting next

These visits are on the calendar right now, across the Bay Area.

  • 5NovMerrill Gardens at BrentwoodBrentwood, CA2:00 PM
  • 10NovVA Hospital Menlo Park CDLMenlo Park, CA1:30 PM
  • 11NovThe Park View of PleasantonPleasanton, CA1:00 PM
  • 11NovCarlton Senior LivingPleasant Hill, CA3:00 PM
  • 12NovSunrise of DanvilleDanville, CA3:00 PM
  • 13NovOakmont of Mariner PointAlameda, CA10:30 AM

Who we visit

  • Hospice
  • Memory care
  • Hospitals
  • Rehab
  • VA hospitals
  • Children's care at George Mark Children's House

Regular monthly or bi-monthly visits, with special scheduling for end-of-life visits.

Facilities, patients and families are never charged. Donations cover every visit. See how it works for your facility

Vocalist Jordyn Foley, dressed as Rapunzel from Disney's Tangled, kneels to talk with two young patients in wheelchairs.
Harmony & Healing Participating Artist Jordyn Foley visits George Mark Children's House in San Leandro as Rapunzel, the singing princess from Disney's Tangled.

How your facility gets started

  1. You request regular visits

    Tell us when your patients are available and what music they love.

  2. We match a musician

    We contact the requested or right musician for each visit.

  3. We schedule with you

    Your musician contacts you to set a convenient time.

  4. The visit happens

    In person or over Zoom.

What families and partners tell us

“Thank you so much for providing such amazing music for our patients & families. I am so grateful for our partnership and look forward to continuing our work together.”

Kyle Amsler, George Mark Children's Foundation

“I was literally moved to tears realizing he was bringing his calling to me. His music brought me right back to my college years and lifted my spirits to the sky!”

Janet Lundquist

“So much healing love to our friend and the rest of us who joined in an amazing virtual performance. Harmony & Healing is such a wonderful organization.”

Jill Scheidel

Why David Victor started Harmony & Healing

In 2013 a charity asked David Victor, formerly of BOSTON, to sing for the children in the pediatric oncology ward at Miller Children's Hospital in Long Beach. He expected it to be hard.

Instead the kids, parents and staff embraced him. He left wanting to keep bringing live music to patients and families in their hardest moments, so they know they aren't alone.

Read how it all started

David Victor, founder of Harmony & Healing, smiling on stage with a sunburst Les Paul guitar on tour with BOSTON in 2014.
Harmony & Healing founder David Victor on tour with BOSTON in 2014

Your gift pays the musicians who make each visit.

Facilities, patients and families are never charged. Donors and sponsors are how the music gets into the room.

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Smiling guests at a Harmony & Healing benefit concert hold up a BOSTON album.
Guests at our 2026 benefit concert at Scott Harvey Wines
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Partners in kindness

Local businesses whose support keeps visits free for facilities, patients and families.

  • Fieldwork Brewing
  • Locanda Ravello
  • Cuda Ridge Winery
  • 3 Steves Winery
  • Page Mill Winery
  • Retzlaff Vineyards
  • Big White House Winery
  • Rosa Fierro Cellars
  • Blackhawk Plastic Surgery
  • Danville Living
  • Simple Holistic Solutions
  • Boomcycle Digital Marketing

Bring music to the patients you care for, or help someone else do it.

Facilities can request free regular visits for their patients. Donors pay the musicians who make them happen.