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Arts and Entertainment

Arts & Entertainment: Rock To The Future Providing More Than Music Education to Philly Youth

July 21, 2017 Jared Phillips 0

When Rock to the Future was started seven years ago, it had one clear goal in mind. The Kensington-based non-profit wanted to provide Philly youth an opportunity to learn instruments with after-school programs and summer camps, but [Read More]

5th Street

Hunting Park: Latin Music Lessons Transcend The Classroom

November 4, 2016 Grace E. Maiorano 0

Salsa rhythms pulsate beyond the basement of Esperanza College and flow into the streets of Hunting Park. The Caribbean-based beats resonate from Artístas y Músicos Latino Americanos (AMLA), a non-profit arts and artist’s organization established in [Read More]

Arts and Entertainment

Education: CAPA’s Dorina Morrow Hits a High Note with Students

November 19, 2015 Lora C Strum 0

Despite taking her turn as a backup singer for artists such as Celine Dion and Michael Bolton, Dorina Morrow demurs when asked to sing in the middle of her office. Morrow, the vocal director at the Philadelphia [Read More]

Arts and Entertainment

Cedar Park: Music Program Proves Instrumental to Young Students

December 9, 2014  0

The major budget cuts the School District of Philadelphia had to endure had a direct impact on music and art programs throughout the schools. Established in 2011 at St. Francis De Sales School, Play On, [Read More]

Center City

Education: New Study Finds Music Lessons Improve Academic Performance

October 23, 2014  0

Play on Philly, a nonprofit after-school organization, teaches orchestra and band music to students from underserved communities. The group released preliminary results of an independent study in September that indicated its program helps reduce student absences and improve [Read More]

Allegheny

Allegheny: Five People You Should Know

February 25, 2014  0

Allegheny West is on the rise. Community leaders are fighting poverty and hunger, but they’re also being proactive – job training and placement is offered through more than one organization. Although the end goal is [Read More]

Arts and Entertainment

West Philly: Stanford Thompson, The Man Behind ‘Play On, Philly!’

December 17, 2013  0

https://vimeo.com/80979879] Stanford Thompson is a tender 26 years-old but has already established a program that is trying to change music education in the city of Philadelphia. With Play on, Philly!, Thompson is combining his education [Read More]

Arts and Entertainment

Germantown: Spotlight on Settlement Music School

December 5, 2013  0

https://vimeo.com/79430225] This year marks the fifty-fifth anniversary of the opening of Settlement Music School‘s (SMS) Germantown branch. The Settlement community as a whole has been operating for more than 100 years. The school serves as [Read More]

Arts and Entertainment

Germantown: The Music of Maplewood Studios

April 4, 2012  0

https://vimeo.com/39740228] Maplewood Music Studio, located on 47 West Maplewood Mall, is set up much like an apartment. If you open the first door to your left, you walk down and narrow hallway, which eventually opens [Read More]

Education

Kensington: Rock to the Future Brings Free Music Education to the Community

February 22, 2012  2

Rock to the Future, an after-school program, offers Kensington and neighboring residents free music lessons, homework help and a social environment for students who would otherwise never see the benefits of music education. Jessica McKay, [Read More]

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