News
- Happy New Year from Music National Service
- GOOD Magazine features MusicianCorps New Orleans
- Obameter "Promise Kept:" Artist Corps –– credits MusicianCorps supporter Congressman Joseph Crowley!
- Our latest Newsletter: "MusicianCorps Now Serving 2800 Youth"
- MC Seattle Fellow Carla Moreno featured in UNT Magazine.
- MusicianCorps featured in new Spirit of Service: Your Daily Stimulus for Making a Difference book! Look for us as an "Energy" organization.
- TIME Mag's "2009 50 Best Innovator" OrigAudio benefits MusicianCorps!
- "Musicians Form Urban Peace Corps (that) Soothes the Sick, Comforts the Bedridden" – SF Chronicle
- DoEd's "Education Innovator" shouts out MusicianCorps.
- MusicianCorps Seattle Benefit at Moore Theatre: Why Music?
- MusicianCorps & Horace Mann Elem. celebrate Latino Heritage at SF City Hall.
- SF Examiner: "MusicianCorps Gets Musicians Out into the World"
- ABC News 26: "Music Mentoring At Charter Schools"
- "Music Education Initiative Has Big Impact" – NOLA Times Picayune
- WWNO interview with Kiff and Sonya Robinson, MNS NOLA.
- Americans for the Arts on United We Serve and Academy of Country Music's Lifting Lives program feature MusicianCorps.
- MNS comes "outta the studio" with latest NEWS BLAST!
- WBGO, nation's largest jazz station, features MNS in New Orleans with MusicianCorps Fellow, bassist, David Pulphus.
- Video: MusicianCorps Fellows talk about Music National Service at Camp. Check out: Carla: David: Jason: Lendl: Rebecca: Samuel: more on youtube!!
- Fellows say "Why They Do What They Do" with Tony Deifell
- 2009-2010 MusicianCorps Fellows from Bay Area, Chicago, New Orleans and Seattle complete national training camp, launch music service in schools, neighborhoods, children's and VA hospitals and other sites. Training faculty and supporters.
- SIGN ARTIST CORPS PETITION!!
- Community Arts Network: Arts National Service, MusicianCorps.
- Onaje & Chanelle testify at Essence Music Festival in New Orleans.
- New Orleans MusicianCorps Task Force plans program and launch: Photos.
- Corp for National Service awards MNS with multi-year AmeriCorps*VISTA grant to support MusicianCorps & MusicianMentors in Oakland/SF, New Orleans, Chicago, Seattle and beyond.
- Seattle Organizes!! Seattle's Arts Corps and MNS convene community orgs (participants) to imagine MusicianCorps (slideshow). Pearl Jam and City Hall step up w funding challenge (City Hall meeting).
- SF School District supports the "Musical Peace Corps."
- Chicago welcomes Music National Service with city organizing events and MusicTank Vol. 1: The MusicianCorps National Launch Meeting. MusicTank Slideshow.
- Music service believers launch bi-partisan Congressional Musicians Caucus.
- Artist Corps Informance at Kennedy Center, April 22. YouTube (10min), Video (1hr), slideshow, news.
- Artist Corps Rocks the House...and Senate! "Musical Peace Corps" passes with "Serve America Act." Read comments from the Senate floor in support of the Shaheen–Gregg, bi-partisan, Artist Corps amendment.
- Music Tank vol. 1 in Chicago was huge success. Check out the photos!
Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR. - Edited video of The Kennedy Center Event up on YouTube!
- Check out our OBAMICON!
Commemorate President Obama's 100th day in office — sound-off and make your statement with your own Obamicon.
- The Artist Corps Informance at the Kennedy Center was a complete success! The Millennium Stage was packed and all the artists gave knockout performances. Slideshow of photos and article about the show now up.
- Artist Corps Informance at Kennedy Center, April 22. Hosted by MNS, Center for American Progress and Congressional Musicians Caucus. Performances by Members of Congress and the Sitar Arts Center's Saints Band...all backed up by Prince's rhythm section (Howard University grads!).
- Artist Corps Rocks the House...and Senate!: "Musical Peace Corps" passes with "Serve America Act" Let's thank Congressman Crowley, Committee Chairman George Miller and Senators Jeanne Shaheen & Judd Gregg from NH!
- Listen: "Idealist" Podcast with MNS Founder, Kiff Gallagher.
- Ruth U. Fertel Foundation, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage and the Academy of Country Music Charitable Fund join the Music National Service movement!
- "Music Teaching Artist's Bible" author and visionary Eric Booth joins MNS to design and lead MusicianCorps National Training Camp.
- La Times & Mercury News on Arts, Obama and Music National Service.
- MusicianCorps in New Orleans for AEP National Forum and event hosted by MNS-NOLA Task Force Co-Chairs Randy Fertel and Robin Burgess, w/ Walter Isaacson, Nick Spitzer and Terrence Blanchard.
- Read MNS' new year's newsletter.
- Join the discussion on creating an Artist Corps at lmaginArtists.
- Listen to MNS on NPR: "MusicianCorps Strikes Tone for Obama"
- The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation announces investment in Music National Service and MusicianCorps.
- MNS Founder Kiff Gallagher joins expert panel in Arts Journal's online debate.
- President Obama's top arts policy priorities: "Create an Artist Corps."
- "Founding mother of the modern service movement," co-author of "The Charismatic Organization," Shirley Sagawa advises MNS policy.
- MNS Founder does a two-day residency at UMich and Arts Enterprise on MusicianCorps™ and the intersection of arts, entrepreneurship and public service. MNS on Music for Change panel at CMJ Music Marathon in NYC.
- Governor Mike Huckabee rocks with Congressional Musicians Caucus Co-Chair, Rep. Joe Crowley (D-NY) to support MusicianCorps at Center for American Progress (story & video). See Washington Post and photos.
- Aspen Institute's "Big Ideas Report" says MNS Will Strengthen U.S. Communities. Click here to view the Attendee List for Conversations on National Music Service.
- Huffington Post features MusicianCorps as an innovation strategy.
- MusicianCorps blogs America Forward: Dec. '07 and June '08.
