NEMPAC, along with the Eliot K-8 Innovation School, was honored to award Leela Kannan and Grayson Boomer the Annie Flaherty Music Scholarship this year for their work in private lessons and ensembles! The Annie Flaherty Music Scholarship is an annual scholarship awarded to an aspiring artist who attends Eliot K-8 BPS Innovation School, one of our long-standing school partners, and is enrolled in music programming at NEMPAC.

Tricia Flaherty created this scholarship fund after her daughter Annie’s passing to provide opportunities to Eliot School students who love, appreciate, and benefit from music just as much as Annie did. Annie, an Eliot School student, was an incredible, sweet, and passionate student who studied piano at NEMPAC. She shined in music classes and programming, and her talent for creating and sharing music inspired her classmates and teachers alike to not only be better musicians, but also to be better people.