(Airdate: September 16, 2025) Maryanne interviews Daniel Ferland, music teacher & founder of YeaMusic, the popular summer music camps for kids. Daniel’s passion for music has now been passed on to Port Townsend & Chimacum students for close to two decades. Against all odds and under Daniel’s direction those bands tell a David + Goliath story — consistently winning awards in competition with much larger high schools. Last summer’s camps were almost cancelled due to the sweeping cuts in arts funding by the Trump administration. First Federal Bank and the Jefferson County Foundation stepped in with grants at the very last moment and saved the camps. But the group rather desperately needs your donations. Go to yeamusic.org to donate — by the way, YeaMusic is an acronym for “youth education in the arts.”
