by Mike | Jan 4, 2012 | News |
Aloha everyone, hope you are enjoying the new year! 2012 will certainly be an exciting year for us as we are hoping to conquer quite a few challenges. First, as you know is the For the Love of Music project, which if you haven’t read about, check out this link. It will be very cool. Speaking of the music project, we have been blessed with a couple of donations that really blew my socks off. We had two people donate pianos to the project! Nice pianos too! I also just got an email from a supporter of the project who wants to donate a trumpet and a flute! How cool is that?! Maybe next my wife will find one of those extra ukuleles we have sitting in the office closet and feel compelled to….. well, we’ll see about that. Musician’s Workshop Westmont is doing really well too! The store looks great and they’ve been getting a lot of new clients for lessons. I’m really happy for Michael Tahlier and his crew down there doing some really cool things and being the outlet for the music project. Way to go Michael! Continued success in 2012! And if anyone needs musical instruction or instruments please check out his website here. I know usually around Thanksgiving we announce that new calendars are available to order for the coming year. Unfortunately, this year with all my firefighter training I just didn’t have the time to put these together. But better late than never, right? They’re here. The new 2012 calendars are here and ready to go. I dropped the price $5 from last...
by Mike | Dec 15, 2011 | News |
We are really excited to announce our newest project, entitled: “For the Love of Music.” This project was an idea that came from Chris Pohlman, a founding member of The Earth Trot Project and an inspirational voice in many of the projects we’ve worked on thus far. This newest project combines our love for music and our desire to give underprivileged children an opportunity to better their future by giving the gift of music. We are collecting musical instruments of all sorts, guitars, ukuleles, pianos, violins, drums, etc. They don’t have to be perfect condition, but if they are usable or fixable, we’re taking them in. Then we’re donating them to The Musician’s Workshop in Westmont, Illinois. The staff at The Musician’s Workshop are then helping us to provide music lessons to kids in the surrounding Chicagoland area. According to a recent study, in Chicago over 31% of children live below the poverty line. This gives them very little chance of being able to pursue music on any level. What we are hoping is that by providing an opportunity to learn and play instruments we can not only help give the joys of music, but maybe we can help keep kids off the streets and away from drugs and other vices. Who knows, maybe the next Jimi Hendrix, Buddy Guy or Paul McCartney is waiting for his or her chance to show what they can do. Again, this project is just in its incipient stage, but we’re working on it. If you’re interested in helping or if you have a musical instrument that you’d like to donate, please let us...
