While there might not be an obvious audience for the musicians in Wisconsin, they’re always performing for the people who might need music the most.
The Black String Triage Ensemble is a group of classical musicians that play music at Milwaukee crime scenes after the law enforcement teams have left.
From 11 to 75 years old, the musicians hope that by performing music at the sites of gun violence and shootings, they’ll help ease the pain of nearby community members who might have been affected by the incident.
As Black String Triage Ensemble founder Daybin Hallmon told WISN: “It’s not necessarily so much for the family of the victims; that healing trajectory is a much longer arc of time.”
“But for everyone else in the neighborhood—people who live next door, down the street, maybe there’s somebody who owns a store—everybody that’s in that space is somehow devastated in some way by this impact,” Hallmon added. “So there has to be something that sweeps that away, sweeps those ashes away, so they don’t carry them home.”
Photo by WISN
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