My daughter is working with an arts in the schools program in Pittsburgh,
PA. Another group did a series of workshops for teachers introducing The
Blues as an optional study program for a Friday, one hour free choice
experience for middle school children. The response from the participants
in the workshops was very good and several wrote words to songs that were
performance quality.
They realized they had not put their point across with some teachers however
when replies as to whether the teachers could use this in their workshops
were returned. The reason, the comments? "These kids come from such
depressing backgrounds already and there's no reason to make them more
unhappy by singing about it." She wondered what other things they were
teaching that hadn't registered with them as well.
Wes
on 10/10/03 2:04 PM, Phillip Landry at saltracer@hotmail.com wrote:
> Doug, and others who might be interested in the Blues, Our local public
> radio station (Lafayette, La.) carries a Blues show on Friday mornings which
> is followed by American Roots (mostly blues) and then The Blues (with Keb
> Mo). On Saturday mornings there is a Zydeco program. This is available on
> the net at www.krvs.org. Philhttp:
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> //krvs.org/listen.php
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