Suite Melody Care

Suite Melody Care started off with Founder & Chair Leslie Ashworth performing the violin at the Oakville Hospital as a high school student. Seeing how meaningful the music was for the hospital patients, Leslie was inspired to start a program so that other young musicians can bring joy through music to hospital patients and the elderly. It is well known that music and medicine go hand in hand as music creates magical moments that can calm, soothe, and bring joy to those listening. Music can reach deeply inside people. It brings people together from any age and background, activates emotions, stimulates memories, relieves symptoms, and overall gives hospital patients something to focus on other than their pain and anxieties. Suite Melody Care encourages talented, young musicians to give back to their communities by sharing themed, interactive, volunteer performances with audiences in hospitals, long-term care facilities, and retirement residences.