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All About The Blues Series™

 "Try, Trust and Triumph"

Blues in the Schools Programs

 

 

One Million Students Served in April 2010

See article Over One Million Served

11x17 BITS One Millionth Student Commemoration Poster PDF NEW

BITS One Millionth Student Commemoration Video YouTube NEW

Letter From The White House  Michelle Obama  PDF NEW

 

• Benedictine University/Artist Residency April 2009

• Niagara County Community College/Artist Residency-Feb ,2009

• The Northeast BITS and Concert Tour 2009 .pdf

• The Harvest Jazz and Blues Festival September 2009- Blues in the Schools. PDF

•  BITS w/Fruteland Jacksons goes to Juvenile Detention Center 2009.pdf

• Blues in the Schools return to Marietta ,Ohio and Fredericksburg, West Virginia  2009PHOTOS by Steve Wells

• Hamburg  New York School Board gives Blues in the Schools the Front Page.

• The Blues in the Schools Programs Grabs the Front Page in Thunder Bay Canada 2008

• Ely ,Minnesota School District pitches seventh Graders the Blues 2008

"It was awesome. I thought it was really great".
"Very Good."
"It was great."
"The Blues in the Schools was very successful. That is what I think."
"The students loved it."
"I really enjoyed the program, I wish it was all year!"
"Very good learning experience."
"I loved it. I would really love to do it again."                                                                                               
"We learned an amazing amount of things for only 2 weeks and everyone loved our performance. Fruteland was really cool."

"Students Learn The Blues" The Marietta Times, By Kate York - March 21,2006  Marietta ,Ohio

• Lycee Jules Seigfried Technical School, Le Harve, France September
• Warren Harding Middle School, Des Moines, Iowa  Des Moines, Iowa
•  BITS LETTERS
• NEWS ARTICLES

Blues in The Schools Goes To Europe  

Lycee Jules Seigfried Technical School   Le Harve, France

Oct 18 2002

• ORGANIZATIONS:

• Blues in the Schools, Inc.  http://blues-in-the-schools.org 

• Blues, Jazz and Folk Music Society   http://www.bjfm.org/

• PHOTO-JOURNALISM:

• Blues in Iceland '06  The Iceland Tour Review "PDF" file. w/photos

• The Russian Blues Tour '04  Journal  "PDF" file. w/photos

• Alan Lomax and Fruteland Jackson meet on the stairs of the Delta Blues Museum Clarksdale , Miss.

NEWSPAPER and MAGAZINE ARTICLES:

• Blues Revue Magazine Article 2007

• "Students Learn The Blues" The Marietta Times, By Kate York -    Marietta ,Ohio

•  "Blues in The Schools" The Frederick News Post, By Karen Gardner Fall                   

• "The Blues Are Just The Facts of Life" The Mississauga News, By John Stewart Mississauga, Ontario

• "Where Nice and Naughty Meet" Atlanta Journal-Constitution by Rheta Grimsley-Johnson   Atlanta, Georgia

INTERVIEWS:

• Ed McDonald Highland Arts Unlimited Keyser, WV (14:26 min.)

LETTERS

• Letter From The White House  Michelle Obama  PDF NEW

• Letter from the Governor of West Virginia - PDF  NEW
• From The White House- Office of the First Lady - Hillary Clinton - PDF
• From The Office of the Vice-President - Mrs. Tipper Gore - PDF

• Open Letter To The White House - Office of the First Lady - Laura Bush - PDF

• The Hotchkiss School, Lakeville CT - PDF

• Region One School District, Falls Village CT - PDF

• Astor Home for Children, Rhinebeck NY - PDF

• Jacksonville Florida School District, Jacksonville FL - PDF

• Mosinee School District, Mosinee WI - PDF

• Central Iowa Blues Society, Des Moines IA - PDF

• Arts Council of Baton Rouge, Baton Rouge LA - PDF

• Minnechaug Regional High School, Wilbraham MA - PDF

• The University of Mississippi, Oxford MS - PDF