Well, I finished the 2006 – 2007 school year of music classes — WHEW ! ! !
I started a program this year at Humboldt Elementary School, called “Songwriting and Recording with Guitar”. My students wrote a lot of profound songs. The last one they did called “A Day Like Me”, which was written by the girl on the left in the photo was selected by the funder to be this month’s highlight on their website.
Go to http://www.childrensinvestmentfund.org/ and look in the bottom right hand corner for the song title “A Day Like Me”, and enjoy.
I taught this class as well as guitar and drumming classes in the inner city public schools this year through Ethos, a nonprofit music center. These particular classes were funded by The Portland Children’s Investment Fund. Here’s a blurb on it:
“In 2002, City of Portland voters passed Measure 26-33, which created the Children’s Investment Fund. The Children’s Investment Fund provides more than $10 million a year for five years to support programs designed to help children arrive at school ready to learn, provide safe and constructive after-school alternatives for kids and prevent child abuse and neglect and family violence.”
