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Causes: Arts & Culture, Music
Mission: This corporation has been formed for charitable purposes, to include, but not be limited to: underwrite, teach, and perform funk and brass band music and dance.
Programs: Informative website, with articles and links to bands, dance troupes and other arts resources. We now have an online store to sell funk and bass band music, books, t-shirts and other branded items to support our work. Contributed to the mission bay high school jazz preservationists trip from san diego, ca to new orleans, la to play jazz and brass band music in the historic preservation hall. We will send them back to nola in the summer of 2016. We are in the process of developing the mbhs summer jazz camp to be held for the first time during the summer of 2016. Contributed to a kick-starter campaign to help send the berklee college of music (boston) band unidentified fusion orangement to japan to tour this past july as a student exhibition of the college and to provide jazz/fusion education to japanese music students. Provide pr, social media and other news services to local funk and brass bands, including the above, the full strength funk band, tori roze and the hot mess, and other local musicians, dancers and music venues. Official sponsor of the radio show the second line parade broadcast on ksds fm 88. 3, jazz radio on the city college campus, san diego ca and streamed live worldwide on saturday nights at 7pm pst. This show features music, concerts and personalities of musicians from new orleans, la. We are hoping to raise funds to officially archive the show and provide programs as podcasts to the public. Sponsor of the sunday brunch funksters meet up group in san diego at the new orleans inspired restaurant, the local habit. We meet every 1st and 3rd sunday when tori roze and her guitarist play original songs, which are inspired by r & b, jazz, funk and rock favorites.
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