Mythbusters TV Show Star Calls For More Funding for Music in Tampa Bay Times Interview May 21, 2015 – Adam Savage, star of one of my favorite TV shows Mythbusters, was giving an interview to Sharon Kennedy Wynee of the Tampa Bay Times and was commenting on STEM (Science Technology Engineering Math) and school tests,…
JUNIOR APPALACHIAN MUSICIANS INC. KEEP TRADITION ALIVE FOR KIDS JULY 14, 2014 – Junior Appalachian Musicians, Inc. (or “JAMinc“) is a non-profit with a mission to help as many children as possible to have access to the joy of participation in the music of their rich Appalachian heritage. JAMinc does this by providing the traditional…
OCT 13, 2013 – Taylor Swift, the leading charitable musician of the year in 2012, has upped the ante even more. Taylor has given the biggest donation to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum ever, $4 million dollars, to open up a "Taylor Swift Education Center" on 2 floors in the building. Ms. Swift is no stranger to the place, for she performed volunteer fundraising when she was younger and even performed as a teenager at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, and even signing her first contract there.
The Taylor Swift Education Center features 3 classrooms, a learning lab and a state-of-the-art children's exhibit gallery, and increases their classroom capacity by sevenfold. It features dozens of instruments, and curators on display restoring musical instruments that will eventually go on display. Read more on Taylor Swift's website here, and also check out a great article about it on GuardianLV.com here. Check out a comment from Taylor Swift at the unveiling of the Education Center below.