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Jan 25, 2012

Guitar Workshop at the Bizung School

by Matt Wasowski

In all my years as a musician and teacher, I have never seen an entrance like that of the students at the Bizung School of Music and Dance.  While the rest of us prepared the performance space at the Youth Home and Cultural Center, setting up microphones and dialing the console, a driver had been sent to bring these young musicians across Tamale for their show.  About twenty minutes before the

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Brian Boyes Featured Volunteer

Trumpeter, composer, and music educator, Brian Boyes, has worked in Vermont for the past 18 years.  As a music educator Brian Boyes has twice received special recognition from the Vermont Arts Alliance for his unique and creative approach to music education at Cabot School.
“When I saw the first Playing For Change video, I immediately thought that it would be amazing to do something like this with kids,” Brian says.  Driven by an inspiration to infuse the spirit of Playing For Change into an educational experience for students, Brian and his colleagues - humanities teacher, Peter Stratman, and science teacher, Michael Crocker - set out to develop a brand new interdisciplinary curriculum that would result in Playing For Change-style video.

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