Putting in nearly 24 hours of work over the course of two days is a tad much, to say the least, but when it's for a good cause, well, there's not a whole lot one should complain about. This past Friday and Saturday played host to Turtle Bay Music School's 4th Annual Perform-a-Thon, our premier fundraising event wherein Turtle Bay students, staff, faculty, alumni and members of our community gathered together to participate in two exciting days of non-stop music making. From trumpet to cello, harp to violin, and guitar to piano, performers of all ages and abilities but their best music notes together to ensure that everyone who walks through Turtle Bay's doors, is able to achieve their greatest musical potential.
This event has long been a cornerstone fundraising opportunity to help the School raise funds for music scholarships, provide financial aid to underprivileged but deserving young students, enhance our public school music programs which annually provide music education to more than 1,300 public school students throughout the five boroughs of NYC, and continue to grow our unique community outreach program, The Saturday Music Project. This new music initiative provides families with little or no access to music, with two years of music appreciation classes and instrument instruction, free of charge.
At the end of it all, the hard work and team effort from everyone at the School made the event a huge success. And while it was difficult to get up off of the chairs that we all collapsed on when the two-day event finally came to an end, I'm sure we all would have liked to get up and click our heels at the initial count for our grand total - over $14,000 - not bad at all for a small community music school with a big heart. We are, afterall, just turtles who keep performing and performing and performing...
Performing at the Perform-a-Thon with my awesome teacher Paula. In only my 3rd performance of my 6 months playing the violin, my nerves got the best of my bowing... the sound resulting from my shaky arm surely gives a whole new meaning to the musical term vibrato.
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