Our Annual Fundraiser for Music Education: Meet Education Through Music – Colorado

Our Annual Fundraiser for Music Education: Meet Education Through Music – Colorado

Three Over Four Month
Every year we're stoked for Three Over Four Month—3/4 through 4/3—where we take time to celebrate another year of our community of partners, clients, and friends (it’s been 15 of those years... can you believe it?). And also when we support music education. We’d love it if you could help! Over the years, your generosity has made a huge difference! In just the past two years, together we raised enough money to fund El Sistema’s kindergarten program for an entire year and enough to expand The Playground Ensemble’s education efforts into another community. This year, we’re juiced to raise $3,400 for Education Through Music-Colorado (ETM-CO). Our new non-profit partner strives to make music education equitable by collaborating with under-resourced schools to build sustainable music programs. ETM-CO focuses on Title I schools in low-income neighborhoods, where the…
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Listen: Three Over Four

Listen: Three Over Four

Three Over Four Month
We asked the composers/musicians/board members of the music nonprofit Playground Ensemble to interpret and record three over four polyrhythms for us. We're releasing them one at time and collecting them in this post. Check it out! Why? Every year, we ask our community to join us in celebrating Three Over Four Month (3/4 - 4/3... yeah, we know we're running late, but when you're talking about polyrhythms, linear time can be a flexible thing) by supporting a nonprofit with a music education focus. Music means a lot to us, and we think it’s good for the world, too. With budget cuts hitting many schools and other publicly-funded music programs, it’s more important than ever to support music education. Learning an instrument improves mental health. Music education strengthens language and reason,…
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