Dear Barrington Patch Editor,

Thank you for putting an article about my March 13, 2011 Community MusicWorks Benefit Concert in the [Barrington] paper. It was a great way for me to advertise my concert, and more than 100 people attended the concert. I want to also say thank you to all that attended and made a donation. With your help, I raised over $1,300 and with this money, [Community MusicWorks] kids will be able to take private lessons, and attend music workshops and performance parties(a recital where the whole community gets together for a potluck dinner). It was something I really wanted to do, and with your help I succeeded.

-Dustine Reich, 13-year-old violinist

Editor: Read the article about Dustine's Bat-Mitzvah benefit concert in Barrington here. Thanks so much Dustine!

What will make the wheels on the CMW music camp bus go 'round and 'round this summer?

You guessed it, the 240 milk chocolate bars sold and purchased by parents and other supporters in February and March. It was the first fundraiser initiated, managed and successfully completed by CMW families. Go parents!

We raised $342.00, thanks to the following salespeople extraordinaire: Candelaria Danicher, Alejandro Flores, Ari Packard, and Rob Rude. Thanks are also due to Phase II students Liam Hopkins and August Packard, who sold candy at Providence College during a CMW Players concert. Go violists!

Parent Bill Hopkins took top honors for selling his weight in chocolate to Providence Journal coworkers. Thanks Sports Department–we knew we could count on your sugar habit.

Thanks also to CMW friend and supporter Jonne Gomes, fiber artist, freelance musician and conductor at large who sold many candy bars at his Warwick shop, Manmade By Jonne, and at a Providence Adult String Ensemble rehearsal.

Finally, a shout-out to parents Jean Descollines and Carol Sullivan, who first suggested that parents conduct a fundraiser.

-Linda Daniels, CMW parent