Saturday Night Bath Concert Fund

Causes: Arts & Culture, Music, Performing Arts

Mission: Live music concerts and hands-on education for at-risk youth at their schools and detention facilities by 8 professional musicians, employing interactive techniques with audiences. Saturday Night Bath is dedicated to the performance of Jazz and Blues compositions by a contemporary ensemble. Our mission is to write, perform and educate by direct contact. We pass on this art form on to youth, while improving and giving focus to their lives; we encourage them to stay in school, study music, get diplomas. One concert consists of eight professional musicians performing a minimum of twelve modern and traditional songs. The music is indicative of Blues, Jazz, Rock and Roll, Rap, and Hip Hop. Greater than 50% of each concert involves soloist improvisation, as well as one-on-one tutoring. Our art is being passed on to future generations by this interactive contact with our musicians. The tutorials follow each performance, and musical instrument descriptions occur in between songs. Often students are encouraged to join us with instruments or vocals. This intrigues, involves and impacts young lives, causing interest in Jazz art to grow each year. Saturday Night Bath Concert Fund with five Directors was incorporated in 1993, though our concerts and clinics began in 1986. The SNB ensemble has performed for at risk youth throughout L.A. Our total audience is more than 24,000. Artistic Director, Howard Rich has copyrighted 110 compositions since 1979. The styles of these compositions encompass traditional 1860s spiritual through new millennium grooves. Song lyrics cover love, music as equalizer, the information highway and its excesses, desperation, honesty, and survival.