Board of Directors:

As a performer and leader of a small jazz orchestra, I had the opportunity to perform at TCAN about a year and a half ago. Through doing so, I got to know Michael a little and since then, I have been on the mailing list, receiving updates of performances and the move to the firehouse. I don't get out to Natick much (I live in Somerville), but this much is clear: people like Michael Moran are rare and hard to find. NO ONE in the whole region has put time and sweat into creating a vital performing arts organization from zero. Why? Probably because the risk is so high and the rewards are so low. TCAN has clearly become a special community-based place in a time when most arts venues have their eyes on the bottom line only. TCAN is more and better largely because of the efforts of this one individual. Why should anyone else ever start something up elsewhere when they see what has happened in Natick as an example.

Please do the right thing and reinstate Michael Moran.

Thank you.

Hans Indigo Spencer