Mark Landry, a homeless musician in Montreal, was recently gifted a brand new violin by members of the Orchestre Métropolitain after they heard his instrument had been stolen.

Music can be a passion for people regardless of their life circumstances.
Mark Landry of Montreal is a prime example; he is a homeless man who regularly played his violin in the city’s metro transit system.
But he tells the CBC that he woke up one morning to find the instrument missing and said to himself, “OK, I gotta go through the lower level of poverty, which is to live without my violin.” 
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