A group of musicians in Wisconsin enjoy spending their free time going to crime scenes to perform classical songs in order to help neighbors heal.

The Black String Triage Ensemble are a group of musicians who play classical music at crime scenes in Milwaukee after law enforcement has left. The musicians range in age from 11 to 75, and they hope that by playing music at the sites of gun violence and shootings, they can help ease the pain of nearby community members who may have been affected by the incident.

“It’s not necessarily so much for the family of the victims; that healing trajectory is a much longer arc of time,” said Black String Triage Ensemble founder Daybin Hallmon. “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. So there has to be something that sweeps that away, sweeps those ashes away, so they don’t carry them home.”

He added that they’re hoping to promote how special human life is.

“Why take them to have their mother suffer, their cousin suffer, their father suffer,” Hallmon said. “Why do we have to have a multiplication of grief and why do we need to be so immersed in it? If we can do something about that and get to a point, whether humanity is appreciated and respected, then I won’t say that we solved it but maybe we were a damn good catalyst.”

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