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Follow on Google News | Musician Consultants Give Free Workshop to 100 Little Kids Rock Students in the BronxFace the Music brings songwriting workshop to charity's NYC chapter
By: Face The Music Little Kids Rock is a leading nonprofit provider of free musical instruments and teacher trainings to public schoolteachers in New York and nationwide. Its curriculum focuses on teaching kids to improvise and compose original music - the only national, nonprofit music program to do so. Face The Music has been lauded for its corporate teamwork consulting seminars, which it has brought to clients such as General Electric, Nestle, Panasonic and Pfizer. The organization also donates proceeds from their new CD, “Your Work is Your Song” to support Little Kids Rock's mission in schools. "We've seen how successful music can be in team-building and pushing people to levels they never thought they could reach," says Face The Music co-founder, Paul Kwiecinski. "It is just as important for kids as it is for adults, maybe even more so." WHAT: Face The Music Blues songwriting workshop for 100 Bronx 4th and 5th graders enrolled in the Little Kids Rock program. WHEN: Thursday, May 19th at 10am-12pm WHERE: P.S. 11 -- 1257 Ogden Ave. Bronx, NY On-Site Contacts: Miranda Altman -- 603-289-1154 Media invited to attend and film. Please RSVP to keith@littlekidsrock.org to get school clearance and arrange for interviews. About Face The Music Face The Music delivers cutting edge music-based programs that engage people as they write and perform original blues (or other) songs about their work issues, and help them move into action to make an impact on those issues in innovative, creative ways. For more info, visit facethemusicblues.com About Little Kids Rock Little Kids Rock is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization that transforms children’s lives by restoring and revitalizing music education in public schools. Little Kids Rock was founded in San Francisco in 2002 by David Wish, an elementary school teacher who had grown frustrated with the lack of music education funding at his school. Today, Little Kids Rock is one of the leading nonprofit providers of free lessons and instruments to underprivileged children in US public schools, and has served more than 160,000 students at over 1,200 schools in 25 cities nationwide. Little Kids Rock Honorary Board Members include Bonnie Raitt, Slash, Paul Simon, B.B. King, Slash, Ziggy Marley and other famous friends in the music industry. More information can be found at: www.littlekidsrock.org. End
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