Lyrica Boston is a 501 C 3 non-for profit educational and performance foundation encompassing the LyricaFest chamber music festival, a home and traveling concert series and the newly Citizen’s Artist Orchestra, (CAO), now celebrating our 22nd anniversary season.

Our goal is to be a conduit for new beginnings and hope for disparate communities. generating employment by performing with our musicians and growing our burgeoning Music Gram Project. 

Together, creating, designing and assembling the Grams, the CAO envisions a future where the walls that seemingly separate us, are broken down to unify, as we are all in recovery from something.  

Reciprocity of artistic, cultural and personal exchange coupled with the essentiality of financial assistance has the potential to unite us all in a global community of support and compassion.

We believe Musicians & Artists are the essential workers of the heart and soul. By working within communities and individuals in need, we can, together, make a profound difference.

To that end, the CAO has launched the Music Gram Project in our home city of Boston, Massachusetts where we have been named Ensemble in Residence of Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, (BHCHP). The Music Gram Project provides members of homeless communities a way “to gift” a live performance from our musicians and artists. Our credo seeks to deliver to those who have little to nothing physically to give, a gift of a personalized live “Music Gram” to send to a loved one, relative or friend. When gifted and or given, the positive effects on the lives of those in need of being seen and heard is truly profound. This in turn can begin the process of hope and new beginnings. 

To date, we have given over 50 Music Grams to residents of  BHCHP and homeless people in downtown Boston in an area named “Methadone Mile”. Instead of naming and defining a neighborhood by its afflictions, we see possibilities and look forward not backwards in crafting a municipality of exchange.

We believe that musicians and artists are the essential workers of the heart and soul and it is our credo to move beyond outreach into engagement and exchange. The members of the CAO have witnessed individual as well as familiar and community transformations by reclaiming neighborhoods, cultural lineage, purpose and sometimes people’s very own lives.

It is our intention not to be visitors, but truly members of our communities in need. The Citizen’s Artist Orchestra is comprised of string players, pianists, guitarists and vocalists. It is our goal to create a new archetype of a musical profession for artists seeking a “musical home” while serendipitously helping others finds theirs. 

We are currently raising funds for all of our initiatives and would greatly appreciate any donation which is entirely tax deductible.

Gratefully, 

The Citizen’s Artist Orchestra