September 2009 Blog Posts (3)

Jazz Foundation saves elderly jazz and blues musicians by bringing live concerts to inner city kids from New Orleans to NY

70 Year-Old Blues Legend to Electrify New York

JAZZ FOUNDATION OF AMERICA BRINGS blues LEGEND Beverly “Guitar" Watkins TO NYC TO SHARE HER LEGACY WITH GIRLS AT WILLIE MAE ROCK CAMP

NEW YORK CITY - On Friday, August 21st, 70-year-old Atlanta-based blues singer/ songwriter/ guitarist Beverly “Guitar" Watkins will play a special performance at the Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls in Brooklyn. She will demonstrate her signature behind-the-head guitar playing… Continue

Added by Wendy Oxenhorn on September 12, 2009 at 10:29am — No Comments

Please help keep music in a California high school

I just signed the SUPPORT LIVERMORE MUSIC EDUCATION:

http://www.petitiononline.com/music925/petition.html

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51. Jaime Austria

Our corporate and political leaders tell us that GLOBALIZATION is good for us. In the spirit of GLOBAL GOODWILL, I sign this petition from New York City. "The arts are not frosting but baking soda." ~ Professor Michael… Continue

Added by Jaime S. Austria on September 6, 2009 at 11:16am — No Comments

“Material poverty shall be conquered by musical richness."~José Antonio Abreu

Thanks to El Sistema-New York City founding member José Bergher for the translation.

Former awardees: Quincy Jones, B .B. King, Cyorgy Ligeti, Keith Jarrett, Bob Dylan, Ray Charles, Pierre Boulez, Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Dizzy Gillespie, Sony Rollins and Gilberto Gil"

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EL NACIONAL, Tuesday, 1 September 2009

Abreu invited Peter Gabriel to come to the country [Venezuela]

The musician, composer and… Continue

Added by Jaime S. Austria on September 1, 2009 at 8:30am — 1 Comment