Highlights of the 2008 "Songs from the Heart" concert

View highlights of the 2008 "Songs from the Heart," an annual joint venture of the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center and Gilda's Club. This workshop consists of a two-evening interactive and instructional journey into the songwriting process. Participants are taught how to write a song expressing their experience with cancer with the help of singer/songwriter Tricia Walker. The concert showcases the fruits of the participants labor honoring cancer survivors, family members and professional caregivers in song. The workshop and concert is a testimony of the power of music. The songs written by participants may never make the Top 40 on radio, but they stand a good chance of encouraging both the writer and listener to try harder, to laugh louder and to lover deeper no matter the circumstances. As they say in Nashville, "It all begins with a song."

Added 18 Sept 2026