Written by Jim Eigo:
jim@jazzpromoservices.com
Jazz Losing Ground? Not Without a Fight!
Watch Video featuring Rhonda Hamilton of WBGO
Have you ever worried that there won't be an audience for
jazz in the future?
Jazz already represents only a small fraction of the music market and schools are
teaching less and less music, much less jazz (if any). Without exposure, kids don't
even know what they're missing. It's time we take proactive and concrete steps to
reverse the situation.
Enter...The
Jazz Drama Program!
The Jazz Drama Program creates jazz musicals for children to perform for their peers.
The Jazz Drama Program seeds the next generation of jazz fans by getting them directly
involved with original jazz musicals written for them to perform. The music inspired
by jazz greats is not watered down, but still accessible and attainable for kids
and the stories of the shows are tailor-made for today's youth.
Working closely with a team of top artists, educators, and partners, Jazz musician/Artistic
Director Eli Yamin and The Jazz Drama Program have developed five jazz musicals
in over 50 performances around the United States and abroad. Last year's Jazz Drama
Program release Nora's Ark led to a distribution partnership with Theatrical Rights
Worldwide. Now hundreds of schools around the world have easy access to the play.
With it's second release, Holding the Torch for Liberty, The Jazz Drama Program
gets kids immersed in early swing, blues and New Orleans style music and a story
about women fighting for and winning the right to vote in 1920. With support from
the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation, Theatrical Rights Worldwide, individual
donors and Avatar Studios, The Jazz Drama Program still needs $8000 to complete
the project.
Please join the efforts of The Jazz Drama Program by contributing to our KICKSTARTER
CAMPAIGN. Your contribution is tax-deductible. Don't let children grow up without
learning the joys of jazz. Join us in building the future of jazz!
If we do not meet our goal by December 31 we will not get any of the pledged support
in this Kickstarter campaign. Please send this link to anyone you think would embrace
helping an organization whose mission is to build jazz communities and help us spread
the word!
Thank you and Happy Holidays!
Kirk Imamura, Avatar Studios Owner, Board Member
Eli Yamin, Jazz Drama Program Artistic Director
www.thejazzdramaprogram.org/
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