A Massachusetts nonprofit uses music to help survivors of trauma, and it’s led by a former rock star.
Robin Lane came to fame with her Boston-based band Robin Lane and The Chartbusters. Their biggest hit, “When Things Go Wrong,” aired in the first hour on day one of MTV.
A lot of the singer/songwriter’s life reads like an unlikely series of namechecks: her father played piano and wrote hits for Dean Martin; she hung out with Neil Young and sang on one of his albums; she was married for a while to Andy Summers, the eventual lead guitarist of The Police.
And Lane says those plot twists and others led her to just the right place, using music to help people cope with their past. She says her goal is simple: she’s trying to save the world, one song at a time.
Her non-profit, Songbird Sings, is based in Shelburne Falls. It offers free songwriting workshops to women and girls who have experienced domestic abuse, sexual assault, trafficking, mental illness and other challenges.
[For more of this story, written by Sharon Brody, go to http://www.wbur.org/2016/01/17...sings-trauma-support]
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