Author: miljennifer77

Hockey fundraiser raises nearly $6K!

by miljennifer77

Drumroll, please! 🥁 We are super excited to share that our Vancouver Giants hockey game fundraiser in October 2024 raised an AMAZING $5,700! This is all thanks to you: our amazing community of supporters and music lovers who share the Thank You for the Music Society vision of brightening the world through music. Your generosity leaves us speechless!

As always, funds raised are going to support public school music programs in Surrey and Langley. Ocean Cliff Elementary in Surrey will receive a Roland FP90X digital stage piano, and Wix Brown Elementary in Langley will receive funds towards microphones, speakers, costumes and set pieces to support their first-ever school musical!

We are already looking forward to our next Giants fundraiser in fall 2025 – stay tuned for updates!

Giants hockey game fundraiser, Oct. 4, 2024

by miljennifer77

We are delighted to share that Thank You for the Music Society has been named as the fundraiser beneficiary for the Giants hockey game on Friday October 4 at 7:00 pm at the Langley Events Centre! We hope you will support us and purchase several tickets to gift or sell among your family, friends, and other contacts. You have been an amazing supporter in the past, and we hope you will step up once again to support school music programs in Langley and Surrey.

Thank You for the Music Society will receive half of the 50/50 earnings for the night, as well as a percentage of the tickets we are able to sell. Our proceeds from the game will then go towards instrument purchases for the Langley and Surrey school district music programs! 

Tickets are $23 each and must be purchased through us in order for the Society to receive a portion of the ticket sales. Email us for tickets: tyftmsociety@gmail.com. 

We are so grateful for your support! In your email, please include:

  • Name
  • Number of tickets
  • Email address of each customer (where tickets will be received)

The tickets will be released and emailed a couple of days before the game.

Our goal is to sell 300 tickets for the game, and if all goes well we plan to make this an annual fundraiser for TYFTM! We are excited to see you at the game on Oct. 4!

Performance Club: music students gain practice and support instrument purchases

by miljennifer77

The Tom Lee Music Performance Club provides music students with the opportunity to practice their performance skills, gain new experiences, and support each other. Plus, the club is an amazing fundraiser to help further the mission of Thank You for the Music Society!

Over the last six months, the Performance Club has raised an impressive $3,000, which has supported the purchase of two new pianos at public schools in Metro Vancouver: a Yamaha YDP digital piano for Surrey’s Salish Secondary School choir department, and a portable Yamaha P125 stage piano for the Tyee Elementary School choir in Vancouver.

Thank you to the music teachers and students who continue to support the Performance Club!

Memorial fund results in instruments, education award

by miljennifer77

Thank You for the Music Society was deeply honoured to be chosen as the memorial fund non-profit for Kurt W. Turner, a musician who grew up in Surrey. Kurt played several instruments, including trombone, trumpet, acoustic and electric guitar, and harmonica, and he was the lead singer with various bands over the years. In his memory, Kurt’s family and friends generously donated $1,000, which we directed to Surrey School District, where Kurt’s musical journey started.

These donations purchased band instruments for Kennedy Trail Elementary School, as well as an award for the Surrey School District Jazz Festival to support a student’s further musical education.

We were fortunate to meet with Kurt’s loving family, who traveled from out of town to share some fond memories and present a cheque at Kennedy Trail Elementary. Thank you for allowing us to honor Kurt’s love for music, for others to benefit now and in the future. ♥️🎶

More than $10K raised for new pianos

by miljennifer77

The Langley School District Foundation and Thank You for the Music Society are excited to announce a successful fundraiser in 2021 that resulted in local students strengthening their music practice habits, and more than $10,000 raised towards new pianos in our Langley public schools.

The Practice-A-Thon fundraiser resulted in the purchase of four brand-new pianos for our local schools:

  • Shortreed Community Elementary
  • Vanguard Secondary
  • Donna Gabriel Robins Elementary
  • Langley Fundamental Middle and Secondary

These pianos will support multiple music opportunities in our public schools: choirs, bands, jazz ensembles, musical theatre, and individual practice. Local students of all ages will have the opportunity to learn and embrace the positive power of music in their lives!

The Practice-A-Thon took place in May 2021 with nearly 200 young musicians committing to practice their instruments for a 15-day period, and collecting pledges from family and friends. Many sincere thanks to all the students, parents, friends, and teachers who participated in and donated to the Practice-A-Thon. Thanks also to Yamaha Canada, Tom Lee Music, and two local McDonald’s restaurants for their contributions to the fundraiser.

This is the first collaboration between the Langley School District Foundation and Thank You for the Music Society, and both groups are excited to continue working together. There is talk of making the Practice-A-Thon an annual event!

Join the Practice-A-Thon fundraiser: May 10-24, 2021

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Calling all musicians!

Thank You for the Music Society and the Langley School District Foundation are excited to launch the Practice-A-Thon to support music students and teachers in the Langley School District. This year’s Practice-A-Thon will take place from May 10-24, 2021. Musicians (students) register online with a commitment to practice for a specific amount of time over 15 days. Family and friends are encouraged to pledge students to support the goal of purchasing new acoustic, hybrid and stage pianos for schools throughout the Langley School District.

Everyone is welcome to participate! Re-commit to regular practicing, return to your instrument, or pick up a new one. The Practice-A-Thon helps strengthen practice habits, while also helping support public school students being able to access music education. Plus, there are fabulous prizes up for grabs! The top-three fundraisers will receive our amazing, music-themed grand prizes, and every Practice-A-Thon participant who raises $15+ will be entered into a draw for even more great prizes.

CLICK HERE TO GET STARTED building your online profile. Then collect pledges, and reach your practice goal May 10-24.

Scroll down and click the Download button to access our welcome package with more information and tools such as a practice log and draft email to request pledges.

Event details:

What:              Practice-A-Thon fundraiser

Who:               Anyone who plays an instrument, musicians of all ages and stages

When:             Online registration opens May 1, 2021

                        Practice-A-Thon takes place May 10-24, 2021

                        Deadline to receive pledges is June 7, 2021

Where:            Register online at http://raiseathon.ca/thankyouforthemusic

Why:               FUN – PRIZES – INCENTIVES – SUPPORT

  • Encourages practice and helps develop daily practice habits
  • Practice- A-Thon dates selected to serve as a great motivator to help prepare for annual music festival, exams and recitals
  • Develops students’ capacity to give back to the community
  • Supports music education in Langley, with pledges raised going towards the purchase of new pianos in public schools that need them most
  • Lots of exciting prizes to be won
Participant Welcome PackageDownload

Bringing music to elementary students

by miljennifer77

We recently received a thank you letter from the Principal at Hjorth Road Elementary School in Surrey, BC and wanted to share with all of you the impact of your support for bringing music to the lives of young students.

Thanks to our generous supporters, the hard work of our President, Shelley, collecting bottles from near and far in our holiday bottle drive, and an incredible donation from Dr. Ross Salvosa from his fundraiser recital, TYFTM Society was able to donate $1,400 towards instruments and band books for the school’s Grade 7 music program.

With the donation, the school was able to purchase four flutes, three clarinets, an electric guitar and amp, plus new clarinet reeds, band books and more!

“… your donation has enabled many students to enjoy a music program that would otherwise be unavailable to them,” wrote Principal Colter. “Music is filling the hallways at Hjorth Road!”

This is why we do what we do! Thank you for your continuing to support our work of helping overcome barriers communities face in accessing music.

2020 Year in Review

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What a year 2020 has been! Along with just about everyone and everything, Thank You for the Music Society has been impacted by the pandemic. However, we recently regrouped as a board for our Annual General Meeting (AGM) and thought we would share some positive notes from the year. 

We started off 2020 with a wonderful bang: Our friend, supporter and wonderful musician Dr. Ross Salvosa hosted a recital on January 18 and donated all proceeds from door donations to TYFTM! It was a wonderful event and attendees were very generous – we were gifted $600 from the proceeds of the evening. Big thank you and gratitude to Dr. Salvosa and his fans! We are also grateful to Tom Lee Music for providing the venue, Steinway D Concert Grand, and tuning service for this event. We are just getting ready to put the donation to use – more on that below.


The middle part of the year was very quiet for us as a society, with fundraising and other charitable activities largely curtailed by the pandemic, and all of our families adjusting to a different way of life. 

However, this fall has seen TYFTM reinvigorated with news of a need for band instruments at a Surrey, BC school. Hjorth Road Elementary, a K-7 school with about 300 students, is in critical need of clarinets, flutes, a bass guitar and a trumpet. We are currently running a bottle drive and small fundraiser to add to Dr. Salvosa’s generous donation to fulfill this need for instruments so these young students can learn and participate in music. Our planned donation will make the purchase of 10 instruments possible for this Surrey school.

If you would like to make a donation, please do so via our PayPal account (click here).

We also recently held our AGM and have some ideas for 2021 and beyond. Would you like to see us bring back our Practice-a-Thon from a couple of years ago? Let us know!

In the meantime, best wishes for a joyful and music-filled festive season from all of us at Thank You for the Music! 

Donation results in 21 new instruments at nine schools

by miljennifer77

Students at nine different schools in Surrey are playing new musical instruments, thanks to the efforts of Practice-A-Thon participants and donors. Thank You for the Music Society was able to donate a very exciting $7,500 to the Surrey School District from the proceeds of our 2018 Practice-A-Thon fundraiser.

The donation was used to purchase 12 xylophones, six glockenspiels and three digital pianos – a total of 21 new instruments.

The school district organized a celebration at Bonnacord Elementary on Jan. 23 to acknowledge the donation, and TYFTM Society board members were so pleased and honoured to hear the students perform a song on the new xylophones that were purchased with some of the Practice-A-Thon proceeds.

Once again, we would like to thank our amazing community of music teachers and students who participated in the Practice-A-Thon – this is all because of your efforts and support!

AGM held November 11

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The Thank You for the Music Society Board held its annual general meeting in beautiful Gibsons, B.C. on the Sunshine Coast on November 11, 2018.

It was a productive planning session, a mini retreat and a time for team-building all in one! There was a lot of talk about next steps and upcoming fundraising efforts. Stay tuned for more news on that front.

Get in touch and let us know if you have any ideas for fundraisers, or to get involved as a volunteer! You can email our President, Shelley, at tyftmsociety@gmail.com.

In the meantime, enjoy some photos from our AGM. Thanks for all of your support!