Bill Westcott is a pianist, composer, arranger, musicologist, and music theorist. His specialty is in African American and Classical music of the 20th century. As a veteran musician Westcott is well aware as to the extent of just how powerful music can be to heal. With over 40 years of experience, Bill has played piano at Toronto General Hospital and offers many sounds to Music Can Heal’s diverse palette of music. He has performed as a band member in Dixieland, country and we

“I grew up pretty poor and have always loved music but my family could never really afford for me to have an instrument. When I ended up homeless I faced a point where I was going to kill myself. I decided I wanted to make my life beautiful and go for big, crazy dreams. After hearing Loreena McKennitt I wanted to play the harp,” Lia Grimanis, founder of Up With Women, recently shared with me. Considering Grimanis was a homeless teenager at the time, living on a dollar a day,