Re: [Harp-L] Blues in schools etc

[BiscuitBoy714@xxxxxxx]

You ROCK Will.  I go out of my way to include kids in music whenever I can 
too. A couple in Erie  PA are gigging now. They're pretty good. I just got 'em 
started and they learned  on their own. I tell 'em, "I'll teach ya for free, 
but you have to teach  somebody else."
 
          Randy
     BiscuitBoy Blues
 
In a message dated 10/5/2007 7:51:49 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
will_vogtman@xxxxxxxxx writes:

I do  this once a year in my local school district.  I spend at least half 
the  time teaching 5 kids at each school to play through a blues progression.   
They get to keep their harps.  We usually do  two schools per year,  and the 
local arts' council pays for it.  I buy the harps, but the  investment (10 for 
$50 Bluesband C) is quite worth it.  Two of us play  the gig and each get 
between 3 and 4 hundred.  The kids remember me as  the "Harmonica Guy."  (A 
moniker I'm certainly not ashamed of).   

Involving the kids in a meaningful manner insures  futures gigs, and makes a 
larger harmonica audience!

Will







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