Tag Archives: music education

Marshall Lamm supports music in the schools, and whatever MC Hammer wants

In addition to being a longtime board member of Music in Schools Today, Marshall Lamm was the publicist of the renowned west coast jazz club Yoshi’s for eight years before launching Marshall Lamm Promotions and Public Relations in January of 2006.
Prior to Yoshi’s, he founded Astor Place Recordings in New York, an imprint of Profile [...]

Project Ahimsa’s West Coast Sessions – This Thursday!

If you are in San Francisco this Thursday, November 6, check out Project Ahimsa’s West Coast Sessions. The event is a benefit for global music education. Vijay Chatta – of Silicon Valley Rocks! band blacK Mahal – is the co-founder and board chairman.
Project Ahimsa is a global effort to empower youth through music, with offices [...]

Who Can Say No to Music and Education?

The answer is…lots of people. Especially those who don’t understand how music can expand kids’ minds, develop creativity, teach discipline and tenacity, and actually improve test scores. To educate about on the cause behind Silicon Valley Rocks!, I’d like to share a bit about Music in Schools Today. That’s where the proceeds are headed.
What they [...]