The Band Collectively For Music Schooling initiative and the John Lennon Instructional Tour Bus made a particular go to to Leimert Park.
“It is sort of a dream come true that I by no means thought was doable,” mentioned Fernando Pullum about his group middle receiving a $10,000 grant from Band Collectively For Music Schooling not too long ago in Leimert Park.
“I’m so thrilled for the scholars in our group and the group at giant to see this bus in our hood.
“It provides folks the chance to want and need extra issues.”
The bus Pullum talked about is the John Lennon Instructional Tour Bus, which introduced its partnership with AXS TV and Spectrum to sponsor the cell music and video recording expertise because it makes stops at three faculties throughout the nation.
“This can be a venture that I began with Yoko Ono 26 years in the past,” mentioned Brian Rothschild, co-founder and government director on the John Lennon Instructional Tour Bus. “As expertise has developed, the Lennon buses have developed however the mission has all the time remained the identical and that’s to supply younger folks with free hands-on alternatives to create authentic music and movies tasks that replicate their concepts and their issues.”
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Established in 2022, Band Collectively For Music Schooling has related AXS TV with associates, native communities, and faculties nationwide, in assist of significant music education schemes. The Band Collectively initiative helps present sources to underserved music applications that greatest exemplify high quality instruction, participation, and management. AXS TV President Andy Schuon shared that this sort of initiative is part of his private mission assertion.
“It’s nice to see this program enhanced by this bus,” mentioned Schuon. “The fantastic thing about this and schooling and music and humanities in class is so vital.
“It’s clearly vital to AXS and Spectrum, it’s vital to me personally, I’ve been on the board of Educate for America, my spouse’s been on the board of PS Arts right here, regionally, for over 10 years.
“I used to be a part of the founding staff for the initiative that we had saved the music at one other community earlier so, it’s been an enormous a part of my life, it suits like a glove to be at AXS working with Spectrum and now the John Lennon Instructional Tour Bus.”
“We’re so blissful to be right here as we speak and partnering with AXS TV to supply this grant for this superb group middle that gives so many advantages to the youngsters and giving them the entry and the sources and the instruments that they should have these hands-on experiences with music,” mentioned Kara Bush affiliate vp at Constitution Communications/Spectrum.
“We wish to take the chance to acknowledge Fernando Pullum for all of his nice work on this group as a result of he’s superb and if not for him, we wouldn’t have these alternatives and have the ability to assist the efforts that he does and constitution spectrum may be very proud to assist this effort.”
The occasion was attended by particular friends and native leaders and representatives together with California State Senators Steven Bradford (thirty fifth District) and Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (twenty eighth District), Los Angeles Councilwoman Heather Hutt (tenth District), Los Angeles County Supervisor Holly J. Mitchell (2nd District) and legendary bass participant Verdine White from Earth, Wind & Fireplace.
“Thanks all people, thanks for having me right here,” mentioned White. “Thanks a lot and all these lovely younger artists, who have been conceived on our music.
White continued, “No matter what expertise goes to be doing nothing actually takes the place of expertise and nothing takes the place of affection and assist that we give to them.
“They requested me, ‘what’s the key?’ The key is simply have enjoyable, you’re solely going to be younger one time, so have enjoyable with it as a result of the studio is enjoyable.
“It’s enjoyable at my age and so they have to tug me out of the studio as a result of I’ve to go to work and do live shows and issues like that, however it’s a pleasure to be right here.”
“This can be a nice instance of group partnership with our company companions right here in the neighborhood this might not be doable and I need to thank this superb bus,” mentioned Bradford. “Music is that connective tissue that retains younger people in class as a result of it’s greater than about music, you bought to learn to write, you bought to know math, to do timing in your music—all of these issues.”
“Twenty-six years in the past, when the bus first opened, I noticed them out in Anaheim and I assumed, ‘Wow, that bus would by no means come to my neighborhood,’” mentioned Pullum. “We don’t have entry like that however low and behold, they’ve been right here, now about, 5 occasions and me personally, I gauge folks’s sincerity and what they actually need to do for teenagers in our group by them exhibiting up and I look behind me and I see these guys confirmed up.”
Spectrum’s assist and help with AXS TV’s Band Collectively has awarded a mixed complete of $160,000 in grants to 24 faculties throughout 20 cities. The Lennon Bus applications have served tons of of hundreds of scholars world wide with occasions, workshops, and interactive experiences utterly freed from cost.
“To see what occurs right here is precisely why we now have to assist the humanities in faculties as a result of an thought turns into artwork, turns into a tune after which hopefully turns into a part of our lives at a particular second as music all the time does,” mentioned Schuon.
For data on Band Collectively For Music Schooling, go to axs.television/band-together. For data on John Lennon Instructional Tour Bus, go to lennonbus.org. For extra on Pullum Neighborhood Arts Heart, go to www.pullumcenter.org
