MMST is delighted to be celebrating the arrival of Spring on Sunday 18 April through a special collaborative performance, ‘SongTrees-in-Spokane’! Together with our wonderful TransAtlantic partners, the Spokane Symphony (James Lowe, Musical Director and Jason Moody, Director of Education & Community Outreach; Associate Concertmaster) and the Spokane Public Libraries (Juan Juan Moses, Events Director), Chika Robertson (MMST CEO) and Mark Ross Clark (MMST Trustee) will be highlighting local schools and families of the Pacific Northwest through their own special song choices. These will be performed by members of the Spokane Symphony, along with students from Gonzaga, Whitworth, and Eastern Washington University. An inaugural Susie Tree will be planted on site at the Shadle Park Library at the end of the concert, which will create a valuable new leaf for the SongTrees Programme, reflecting the strong musical and cultural roots of the Spokane community through an evocative trip down Memory Lane. This exciting new SongTrees-in-Spokane Community Music Archive will contribute to the Spokane Dementia Project, which stems from fruitful collaborative work during and since the pandemic between MMST and the Spokane Symphony.