“Implementing them made this a no-excuse program.” “Those three things are the tools these kids really needed to succeed,” Tabb said. Tabb said he hopes that the tutors can serve as role models for his students and inspire them to pursue higher education. The tutoring program is led by students from Tulane and other local universities. As for food, each day students receive a hot meal, donated to the program from organizations like Second Harvest Food Bank. After practice, the buses take the kids back home. Roots of Music operates three buses that pick up the students from over 50 schools around the city, Tabb said. He has expanded on the music-program concept by introducing transportation, food, and tutoring. “He saved my life,” said Tabb, who then began to use music as a positive outlet. outside of the New Orleans Jazz Museum's gates on Esplanade Avenue.Įstablished in 2007, the Roots of Music is a nonprofit, after-school and summer music education program for kids ages 9-14 from low-income households.ĭerrick Tabb, Roots co-founder and executive director, said he was inspired to create the program after his junior-high band director took a special interest in him. The Roots of Music plays Saturday at 11:30 a.m. The festival will be held Saturday and Sunday. The band, known as the Roots of Music Marching Crusaders, is rehearsing for its upcoming performance at this weekend's annual Satchmo Summerfest, a two day-festival dedicated to the legendary New Orleans jazz musician Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong. Please contact us for scheduling and pricing.With a wave of his hand, their director, Lawrence Rawlins, queues them in and they sound their instruments in unison, playing the notes to Starpoint’s “Object of My Desire.”
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By giving us multiple options of how to break down what we were hearing he helped us all improve the way we aurally analyze music.”Įncore Music Creations is based in New Haven, CT. He always came up with at least 3 solutions to every problem or query. “Scott Perkins was incredibly patient and understanding.I highly appreciate the way he presents materials for us because he makes himself very clear while delivering. “Scott displays a lot of enthusiasm and knowledge towards this theory course.He could always answer any question and is extremely concerned with students.” “Scott is one of the best teachers I’ve had at Eastman.Read what Eastman students said in their evaluations of Scott’s teaching: Scott taught musicianship at Depauw University in Indiana for four years, earning high praise from his students. For two years, Scott was also a member of the music theory and composition faculty at Nazareth College in Rochester, NY. He designed and taught second-year honors ear-training and sight-singing courses to the some of the school’s most advanced undergraduate students in those subjects. Scott taught eleven undergraduate and graduate review courses at Eastman in ear training and music theory. Scott also participated in workshops in music theory pedagogy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he worked with such leading scholars and teachers in the field as William Caplin, Jane Piper Clendinning, Gary Karpinski, Steve Larson and Joseph Straus. He received his master’s degrees in music theory and music theory pedagogy from Eastman, and he holds a bachelor’s degree, summa cum laude, in music theory and composition with a sub-concentration in vocal performance from Boston University’s College of Fine Arts. ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORĮncore co-founder Scott Perkins earned his Ph.D in composition with minors in music theory and music history from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY. Instruction ranges from fundamentals to graduate-level topics in tonal and post-tonal theory.
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