EXCERPTED FROM THE SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT – Since the onset of COVID-19, arts education programs have been hit especially hard. Santa Barbara music nonprofit Notes for Notes is no stranger to these challenges. Founded in 2006, Notes for Notes provides and staffs after-school recording studios in Boys & Girls Clubs across the country, allowing kids… Read more »
Launched in 1995, Vail Jazz is one of our nation’s premier music festivals spanning 12 weeks every summer, entertaining more than 50,000 yearly visitors, and contributing to the musicianship of 270+ outstanding jazz players. Vail Jazz also sponsors a school program that has helped educate over 20,000 students across central Colorado. As longtime fans, we… Read more »
32 Bar Blues Partners with African Poetry Book Fund African Poetry Book Fund founder Kwame Dawes is also the Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner and teaches at the University of Nebraska and the Pacific MFA Program. PRAIRIE SCHOONER: Can you tell us a little bit about 32 Bar Blues and the organization’s relationships to… Read more »
EXCERPT FROM THE SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT “Jazz music is the power of now,” as Wynton Marsalis once said. For men’s clothing company 32 Bar Blues, jazz is the inspiration for the brand – and the power behind an exciting new partnership with the Jazz Foundation of America. Compelled by the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact… Read more »
