User:Wmccray2/Kelly Hall-Tompkins

==== Music Kitchen-Food for the Soul ==== Hall-Tompkins founded Music Kitchen — Food for the Soul in 2005.

The program began in the basement of the men’s shelter program located at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, where Kelly-Hall was a member. During her time attending the church she decided one night, rather than practicing with collogues, to play for the shelter members and was then asked to return again.

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By 2020, Music Kitchen has performed in over 30,000 shelter clients and had brought top artists to perform in over 100 concerts in various homeless shelters throughout the United States.

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Forgotten Voices
Forgotten Voices is a collection of sixteen songs that explores the human experience. This project was initiated in 2019 in celebration of the fifteen years of success of Music Kitchen – Food for the Soul. The song cycle premiered on March 31, 2022, in Zankel Hall, located at Carnegie Hall, with text collected from the general feedback of the guest of Music Kitchen performances. The collected feedback was made into music by commissioned accomplished composers Courtney Bryan, Jon Jeffrey Grier, Kelly Hall-Tompkins, Beata Moon, James Lee III, Paul Moravec, Kevin Puts, Jeff Scott, Steve Sandberg, Kamala Sankaram, Carlos Simon, Angélica Negrón, Errollyn Wallen, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, and Gabriel Kahane. Other collaborators include vocal artists Allison Charney, Adrienne Danrich, Jesse Blumberg, and Mark Risinger in addition to instrumentalists Andrew Gonzalez, Alexis Pia Gerlach, Peter Seidenberg, and John-Paul Norpoth.

Awards and Features
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Music Kitchen’s short film “Face to Face: Forgotten Voices Heard” has been awarded at festivals such as Berlin Short Film, Berlin Indie, Cannes World, La Documentary, Stockholm Short, and Red Movie Awards.