Feel the Music at VISIONS with teaching artist and master percussionist Bashiri Johnson. This culminating concert includes Francis Mbappe and Feel the Music! founder, Valerie Ghent, alongside Visions senior participants. Also features an interview with Ann De Shazo, LMSW, Director of the Visions Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired.
Feel the Music! launched a new program this spring at VISIONS! Renowned percussionists Bashiri Johnson and Gary Fritz taught weekly percussion workshops for the blind and visually impaired at VISIONS, engaging participants in rhythms and hand techniques. By the end of the workshop each participant could solo on their own drum! The series culminated in a wonderful concert, featuring all participants, on June 27th. Congratulations to all our new DRUMMERS! This program is supported, in part, by public funds from…
We send tremendous thank yous to Music Over Manhattan for hosting and organizing such a wonderful benefit concert with Sloan Wainwright on May 22nd, 2011. All proceeds raised will go to support the Feel the Music! Songwriting for Seniors program – we plan to use some of the funding to record songs written by seniors in recent months! And thanks to Wool&Grant – Ina May Wool and Bev Grant – for their musical performance and lending their voices and guitars…
Feb 25, 2007 Feel the Music! is honored to be prominently featured in the Red Cross 125th Anniversary Annual Report (2006). From 2005-2008, Feel the Music! was funded by the American Red Cross Recovery Grants program to provide services for hundreds of children and families directly impacted by September 11th. Click on images to view larger size. Download entire Red Cross 2006 Annual Report (from redcross.org/pubs) Photo of Bashiri Johnson taken by Valerie Ghent, December 2006.
