89R12098 KRT-D
By: Johnson H.R. No. 776
R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, Purple Songs Can Fly was recently awarded a $10,000
Arts Create grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts; and
WHEREAS, Founded in 2006 by executive director Anita Kruse,
Purple Songs Can Fly is a nonprofit Houston-based organization that
provides a musical outlet for children being treated for cancer and
blood disorders at Texas Children's Cancer and Hematology Centers;
in this unique program, the patients and their siblings work with
professional singer-songwriters in an in-hospital recording studio
to write and record their original songs; and
WHEREAS, Among the group's many initiatives are
collaborations with VoiceAmerica Kids Network and members of the
Houston Symphony; in addition, CDs of the children's songs have
been taken across the globe and into outer space, with destinations
including the summit of Mount Everest, the undersea site of the RMS
Titanic, a world tour with the Rolling Stones, and two space shuttle
missions; moreover, in 2015, the first Purple Songs Can Fly
musical, Journey To Hope, was created and performed by six
long-term survivors, and it is now an award-winning documentary;
and
WHEREAS, By inspiring children to express their innermost
thoughts and dreams through music, Purple Songs Can Fly has made a
positive impact on the lives of countless young Texans and their
families, and the funding provided by the Texas Commission on the
Arts will help the organization to continue their important work;
now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 89th Texas
Legislature hereby congratulate Purple Songs Can Fly on its receipt
of an Arts Create grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts and
extend to all those involved with the group sincere best wishes for
the future.