1 live, interactive, 8-professional musician, Blues and R&R concert with education for 5-schools in the Los Angeles area.

Access to Creative Industry Employment (sponsored by the Snap Foundation)

Expand existing project, program, or initiative

We will provide access to our popular music performance and education, specifically our brief instrument descriptions, and their current and past famous performers. Many are continuation high schools, some of which are primarily for pregnant girls in their early teens. We will include acoustical musical instrument tutorials before and after the performances. The band converses in a relaxed and informal manner, performing old and composing blues songs with the students. New peer identification & artistic relations with students occur with our musicians. Those who remember 10-things that we talk about win a harmonica. We will reach approximately 300, who are beginning their lives with extreme burden and inner-city stresses. Many are familiar with the judicial "system", a reason to continue school and get a diploma. The program directly affects the lives of the students and their families, bringing art, communication, and camaraderie in school to those who are at risk.

Classroom as well as neighborhood art alliances and friendships arise. These include singing, poetry, instrumental and poetry appreciation, and amateur performing groups. We will send 3-questionnaires that represent a baseline evaluation; The impact of this grant will inspire, motivate, and educate young people by direct contact with musicians and live popular music. Referrals will be systematically updated and sent in the ensuing months. We will send 3-questionnaires that represent a baseline evaluation, We will follow-up with two referral lists: music study & apprenticeships, and scholarships available. There are documented increases in concentration, awareness of current popular music, rhythms, rhymes, math, and poetry. We provide a type of popular therapeutic music, which affects peers and families' lives and their views of the future. Students who perform with SNB become celebrities. Resultant interest in music, popular arts role models, poetry, language, rhythm and counting, dance and movement are expected to be clearly apparent. Teachers Principals, and officials have said that improvement in student's social and artistic attitudes are enormous and cumulative. We perform a vital program of fostering art as well as social harmony and productivity in our young student's lives, believing that they will "give back" to their peers and society.

The impact of this grant will inspire, motivate, and educate young people by direct contact with musicians and live popular music. Referrals will be systematically updated and sent in the ensuing months. We will also give a file of our 38-page Music History/Theory Handbook to each school; there are simple and innovative extensions to our program within. We provide a type of popular therapeutic music, which affects peers and families' lives and their views of the future. Students who perform with SNB become celebrities. Resultant interest in music, popular arts role models, poetry, language, rhythm and counting, dance and movement are expected to be clearly apparent. Teachers Principals, and officials have said that improvement in student's social and artistic attitudes are enormous and cumulative. We perform a vital program of fostering art as well as social harmony and productivity in our young student's lives, believing that they will "give back" to their peers and society.

We will send 3-questionnaires that represent a baseline evaluation; they are: 1) the styles of music thought to have been heard and which musical instruments were remembered, 2) goals/milestones as a noticed percentage increase in social, verbal, and other interaction, and 3) a 2/3-page student essay. We will follow-up by calling the Principals and e-mailing two referral lists: music study & apprenticeships, and scholarships available. We will send 3-questionnaires that represent a baseline evaluation; they are: 1) the styles of music thought to have been heard and which musical instruments were remembered, 2) goals/milestones as a noticed percentage increase in social, verbal, and other interaction, and 3) a 2/3-page student essay. We will follow-up by calling the Principals. We will also give a file of our 38-page Music History/Theory Handbook to each school; there are simple and innovative extensions to our program within.