RECENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND ACTIVITIES OF THE MUSIC IS ART FOUNDATION

Incorporated in 2004, The Music is Art Foundation strives to promote and educate music and art within the community and select schools throughout the year. Programs include (not limited to):

High School Awareness Tour:

• Music based motivational assembly focusing on personal responsibility. To date the tour has been invited to 28 schools and performed before more than 35,000 high school students.

Instrument Drive:

• Community involved musical instrument collection for redistribution to local schools. We are proud that this out reach has placed more than $100,000 worth of refurbished instruments in needy schools.

Community Outreach:

• Music based programming to assist in local not-for-profit fund raising efforts. In 2005 Music is Art released “Music Is Hope” a CD to help raise funds for Summit Academy, a facility specializing in the needs of developmentally challenged children focusing on Autism.

Event Programming:

• Co-production of community based events such as “Rockin’ at the Knox,” a fund raiser for the world renown Albright-Knox art gallery, and “Party for the Parks,” which helps raise money for the Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy.

Music is Art Festival:

• Now entering its fourth year our festival has grown from 3,500 curiosity seekers to 75,000 fans from throughout Western New York and Southern Ontario. The festival features the finalists of a Teen Battle of the Bands; an event organized through schools. ‘05 saw a rare first as Robby Takac of the Goo Goo Dolls performed live with students from a local high school. The festival also features a “Kid’s Zone.” As of the present time, we have received a verbal commitment to have Daisy Rock Guitar endorser Lisa Loeb host a series of “hands-on” clinics for pre-teen & teen festival attendees.

Production of the Music is Art festival CD:

• Release of performances from previous year’s festival to raise funds for select charitable organizations.