Join us at 6:30PM.

Free and open to the public.

this performance is co-sponsored with the Joslin Library.

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Islene Runningdeer is a musician, therapist, educator, and writer who lives and works in central Vermont.

She draws upon her French and Mi’kmaq/Abenaki First Nation roots to make music a joy. For more than forty years she has used music as a medicine to teach students about creative freedom and health, to aid and comfort patients and families during the dying process, to draw people with severe dementia out of their isolation and confusion, and to uplift and calm anyone within hearing, whether in church, the concert hall, the hospital, or the living room. Her work blends her lifelong interest in music of all kinds, psychology, physical health and spirituality.

She is the author of two books:  
Musical Encounters with Dying: Stories and Lessons (Jessica Kingsley Publishers)
The Musician Healer: Transforming Art into Medicine (Durvile & UpRoute Books)