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QUARTER NOTES
MARCH 2021
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15 DONATION LOCATIONS DETAILED BELOW |
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We’ve learned a lot during this pandemic about what sustains, comforts and inspires us. We’ve been reminded once again that music is essential, something that children seem to understand intrinsically.
It’s why they have played through masks, rehearsed outdoors, joined classmates on Zoom and practiced alone at home on instruments loaned by their schools. And it's why this year's instrument drive is more important than ever.
So, we are asking you to ask your family, friends, neighbors, and colleagues to donate an instrument to our March instrument drive. Think of it as extending an invitation to a concert of the future. Even though we are not currently gathering with friends and loved ones to fill concert halls, by joining together during the instrument drive we can fill our classrooms with the musicians of tomorrow. And in doing so, we fill our kids with the joy that making music brings!
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WHAT INSTRUMENTS ARE NEEDED? |
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- BRASS
- GUITARS
- ELECTRIC KEYBOARDS
- PERCUSSION
- STRINGS
- WOODWINDS
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We need that bass or bassoon, cornet or clarinet, trombone or trumpet, and that violin or viola you haven't touched in years. Don't worry if it is out of tune. Most instruments require some work so they will be in excellent playable condition when schools receive them.
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WHERE DO I GO TO DONATE MY INSTRUMENT? |
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From MARCH 8 to MARCH 21, we are accepting band and orchestral instruments at any of the following donation drop-off locations. Give your unused, old instruments to young musicians and "Let The Music Play" on!
(With a nod to "Let The Music Play" songwriters Chris Barbosa and Ed Chisolm.)
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METRO DENVER AREA
Flesher-Hinton Music
6890 W. 44th Avenue
Wheat Ridge, CO 80212
Golden Music Center
10395 West Colfax Avenue
Lakewood, CO 80210
Kolacny Music
1900 South Broadway
Denver, CO 80210
Elevated Music Center
(formerly My Music Skool)
6955 South York Street
Centennial, CO 80122
Twist & Shout
2508 E. Colfax Avenue
Denver, CO 80206
BOULDER
HB Woodsongs
3101 28th Street
Boulder, CO 80301
BROOMFILED
Rocky Mountain Music Repair
2150 W. 6th Avenue Unit E
Broomfield, CO 80020
CASTLE ROCK
CIOMIT
651 Topeka Way, Suite 100
Castle Rock, CO 80109
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COLORADO SPRINGS
Meeker Music
624 N. Tejon Street
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
GRAND JUNCTION
Grand Junction Symphony
414 Main Street
Grand Junction, CO 81501
FORT COLLINS
Boomer Music Company
3761 S. Mason Street
Fort Collins, CO 80525
GREELEY
The Music Depot
2318 W. 17th Street
Greeley, CO 80634
LOVELAND
Loveland Academy of Music
1355 Cleveland Avenue
Loveland, CO 80537
PARKER
Allegro Music
11280 S. Twenty Mile Road
Suite 110
Parker, CO 80134
PUEBLO
Pueblo City Schools -
Administration Building
315 W. 11th Street
Pueblo, CO 81003
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We sincerely thank all of our donation locations for their help with instrument collection and documentation. The instrument drive requires quite a bit of orchestration. We couldn't do what we do without their help and hard work!
Additionally, we thank our dedicated partners at 9News, Colorado Public Radio, Colorado Symphony, KUNC, KUVO, Rocky Mountain PBS as well as our many supporting organizations and individual donors for making our annual instrument drive possible.
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WHO WILL GET THE INSTRUMENT I DONATE? |
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The majority of donated instruments go to Title One Colorado schools that have underfunded music education programs. All go to schools with students who are unable to rent or own an instrument.
Over the course of the past 10 Instrument Drives, more than 5,500 instruments worth more than $2.2 million have been distributed to more than 240 elementary, middle, and high schools across the state. Because the instruments are given to schools rather than individual students, the prospect of each instrument benefiting many students is increased. We conservatively estimate that more than 17,000 children in Colorado have now benefited from our program.
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Now, as the impact of Covid continues to be felt, underfunded schools with already strained budgets need our support more than ever before. And now, as this thank you note from Plateau Valley Schools in Collbran, CO beautifully illustrates, students and music teachers are more appreciative than ever of the instruments they receive! A teacher from Cañon City Schools put it this way:
"The fact that the arts are still being supported, that people still want music in our schools, means the world. I cannot successfully express the gratitude that I feel when the people of the world tell me that my job matters and that they support everything I do in my classroom."
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HOW CAN I GET INSTRUMENTS FOR MY SCHOOL? |
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Carry Out ACCESS TO MUSIC
Curbside pickup for groceries was already familiar when BMTL adopted the practice last August to safely distribute instruments during Covid. Matt Steele, from Denver's Northfield High School, and 35 other individual teachers came to our storage unit by appointment and drove away in vehicles carefully loaded with woodwinds, brass, strings and percussion for the coming school year.
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Submit an online application
by March 31st,
if you would like
INSTRUMENTS TO GO
to your school's music program.
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Bringing Music to Life
2390 S Fillmore St
Denver, Colorado 80210
(303) 756-3123
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Steve Blatt, Executive Director . David Necker, Co-Chair . Anne Necker, Co-Chair
Christine Andresen . Rebekah Bonn . Peter Dawes . Michael Frank
Ralph Lawrence . Kathy Newman . Jerry Reuschhoff . Lin Williams
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