Woman with cancer, her daughter give back by playing music for other patients [Video]

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (WXII) – There’s just something about the sound of music and song that is very special.

Just ask Andrea Bills.

“I just want them to know that even something as small as a beautiful song can keep you going,” Andrea Bills said.

And also her mother, Mary Ann.

“They’ll come up and say, ‘Beautiful music.’ People will be crying,” Bills said.

The duo can be found “tickling the ivories” and strumming the violin strings each Tuesday at the Novant Health Cancer Institute in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

“She just sat and started playing one day, and they never told her to stop,” Bills described.

But the mother and daughter’s story goes much deeper than that.

Mary Ann, the pleasing pianist, is also a patient herself at the medical center.

“We’ve been doing this since my mother got her initial diagnosis. She is a patient here and she just wanted to give something back,” Bills said.

Mary Ann has been …