Musicambia Annual Campaign

Support transformative music-making inside prisons!

Musicambia is an educational program which brings professional musicians inside prisons to teach incarcerated people. Our Flagship Program, which began at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in 2014, meets every other Saturday from September to June. Thirty-two incarcerated musicians currently attend morning and afternoon classes for 5 hours, and in doing so, foster teamwork, empathy, and a sense of responsibility to themselves as well as to their fellow students. 

Today, we also operate the Jeptha Program (Mental Health Unit) and Summer Songwriting Workshop at Sing Sing. In addition, we now have programs at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, and in Kansas and California. We annually reach 125 incarcerated participants, as well as audiences of some 220 incarcerated people attending our concerts. Previously, we worked in Indiana and South Carolina: all told, Musicambia has created programs in 10 different facilities.