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Contact: Isa Greenberg
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Little Kids Rock Donates Hundreds of New Instruments to the Pasadena Unified School District and Presents Free Guitar Workshop for Area Teachers
February 4, 2009
Pasadena, CA - Little Kids Rock (LKR), a non-profit music program that provides free instruments and instruction for public school students, announced today that it will be launching new programs in 19 schools in the Pasadena Unified School District.
The Little Kids Rock program will supply up 400 brand-new guitars, train two dozen school teachers and provide the life-long gift of music education to as many as 1,000 low-income students in the district.
Little Kids Rock will be providing a free, two-day teacher workshop for Pasadena Unified School District teachers who have applied to bring the Little Kids Rock program into their schools. Teachers who complete the workshop may begin leading classes as early as the end of February, 2009. The workshop will take place on Saturday & Sunday February 7th and 8th, 2009, 10am-4pm each day at The Boys and Girls Club Performing Arts Center, 3301 Thorndale Rd., in Pasadena. Media are invited to attend.
Media are invited to attend the two-day workshop.
Participating Pasadena schools include:
Norma Coombs Alternative School, Marshall Fundamental School, Washington Middle School, Susan Miller Dorsey School, Jackson Elementary School, Eliot Middle School, William Tell Aggeler Opportunity High School, Webster Elementary School, McKinley Elementary School, Sierra Madre Elementary School, Wells Middle School, Hooper Avenue Elementary, South Gate Middle School, Summit Charter Academy, Downtown Value School, Willard Elementary School, Madison Elementary, Stephen M. White Middle School.
About Little Kids Rock
Little Kids Rock is a national nonprofit organization that transforms the lives of low-income children by restoring and revitalizing music education in U.S. public schools. It was founded in San Francisco in 1996 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 (LKR) is the largest provider of free instruments and teacher training to underserved kids in public schools in the United States. LKR serves more than 37,000 students in New York, California, Texas, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Washington, D.C. The organization teaches kids how to play pop, rock, reggae, funk, blues, rap, and hip-hop music. LKR students not only perform but also compose and record their own music.
More information can be found at www.littlekidsrock.org and www.littlekidsrock.tv.
