ACM Lifting Lives® Partners With COPD Foundation & Spokesperson Chris Janson To Launch 'Harm
PHOTO: Chris Janson teaching harmonica to Harmonicas for Health Participants living with COPD
(Photo Credit: Helen Comer)
Encino, CA – ACM Lifting Lives® announced today a new partnership with the Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder (COPD) Foundation to start a pilot program called Harmonicas for Health. This program is part of the COPD Foundation’s Pulmonary Education Program (PEP) and works to encourage COPD patients to exercise their lungs and improve their lives through the power of music.
Harmonicas for Health (H4H) presented by ACM Lifting Lives kicked off at the end of January in Murfreesboro, TN. Three-time ACM-nominated country artist Chris Janson stopped by recently to visit patients at Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital and see the group’s progress as they have been learning to play the harmonica to treat COPD. After five weeks, the first program has come to an end and the participants have a new found hobby and remedy of treatment. The COPD Foundation’s goal is to have 25 Harmonicas for Health programs launched at various hospital PEP locations nationwide by September, 2016. Saint Thomas Rutherford was the first to launch.
“I can attest to the healing power playing the harmonica provides. As an asthmatic, harmonica playing has helped me overcome my breathing problems and make some damn good music,” says Janson.
ACM Lifting Lives is funding this program and secured Janson to come on board as a COPD National Spokesperson for the program. For more on COPD (H4H), watch Chris Janson here.
