In January and February of 2025, Arts in Medicine musicians gathered with members of the Gainesville and North Florida community for a weekly workshop series. The community members, having identified as being affected by Sickle Cell Disease, joined the workshop series to learn songwriting and music production skills, as well as to gather together in a community that validated their lived experiences.

The product of these workshops is an 8-song original album written solely by the group of attendees. Titled “Warrior’s Path”, the album explores the immense depths and unexpected joys of living with sickle cell.

The group collaborated to combine musicmaking skills with the perspectives of those directly or indirectly affected by sickle cell and recorded their finished songs at Pulp Arts Recording Studio in Gainesville, FL.

Mixing and Master credit: whodidit? (F. Raphael Llana)

Warrior's Path

Bring Me to Heaven

Pockets Full of Pain

Shining On Me

Mama Said

(There is a) Brighter Side

In January and February of 2025, Arts in Medicine musicians gathered with members of the Gainesville and North Florida community for a weekly workshop series. The community members, having identified as being affected by Sickle Cell Disease, joined the workshop series to learn songwriting and music production skills, as well as to gather together in a community that validated their lived experiences.

The product of these workshops is an 8-song original album written solely by the group of attendees. Titled “Warrior’s Path”, the album explores the immense depths and unexpected joys of living with sickle cell.

The group collaborated to combine musicmaking skills with the perspectives of those directly or indirectly affected by sickle cell.

Mixing and Master credit: whodidit? (F. Raphael Llana)

Enoch's Life

Breath Beat

This is the Day

Ice Cold

Songs Performed By UF Health Shands Arts in Medicine Musicians in Residence.
"Recover" represents some of the most requested songs in the hospital.

Home(Drew Pearson and Greg Holden)- Performed by Max Helgemo

Case Of You (Joni Mitchell)-Performed by Maria Kerrigan

Banks Of The Suwannee (Suzanne Marie Grooms)-Performed by Cathy DeWitt

songs from tiny beds bu Ricky Kendall and friends

Girog-Ricky Kendall with Bailey Baldwin

AIM musician in residence performs Paradise by John Prine. Featuring fellow musician in residence Michael Claytor on the banjo.

Cathy DeWitt plays Paradise by John Prine

Our musicians and writers craft the words and musical tastes of patients into songs with our mobile studio, and are able to give the recording back to the patient. Here's an example of a song Michael Claytor, Musician in Residence, and Andrew Hix, Writer in Residence, created for a patient from a poem written for her by her aunt when she had her first transplant in 1999.

Kristine Sullivan's Album

The Greatest Gift

Harnessing the transformative power of the arts for health. Our mission is to provide every person, regardless of illness, disability or perceived disadvantage, with access to the arts in order to realize their creative potential.

UF Health Shands Arts in Medicine

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