Blues Legend Robbie Laws Takes his Skills to the Portland Schools

Local dejection guitar fable Robbie Laws is advancing the teaching of dejection to acceptance in the Portland academy arrangement in affiliation with the Cascade Blues Association. Laws, an 18-time champ and Hall of Famer of the Muddy Awards and buyer of SixStringCentral School of Music, is spending his twenty-third year ensuring that the next bearing is able-bodied acquainted of the agreeable history that was the antecedent of about every anatomy of American music.

Blues in the Schools is a affairs modeled afterwards the afterwards nationally accustomed “Blues in the Schools” programs offered throughout the United States and is sponsored by the Cascade Blues Association, advised one of the a lot of breath dejection associations in the country.

According to Laws, “As a player, a abecedary and an aficionado of the blues, I about accede it my assignment to let kids apperceive there is a anatomy of music still out there breath and advancing that gave bearing to the music they are currently alert to. Portland academy accouchement aren’t all able to appear to SixStringCentral to apprentice to adulation the blues, so we go to them.”

The programs are accomplished by able dejection musicians and agents and are offered to bounded accessible academy systems, clandestine academy systems, association centers and institutions, and cover bounded association events. The mission of Blues in the Schools is to advice ample the gap created by account reductions in arts and music in our schools while accouterment a fun, alternate and aggressive program.

“The Cascade Blues Association has done an absurd job of befitting dejection breath in Portland and in Oregon. Blues in the Schools is just one added archetype of humans with a accepted adulation accepting calm to advance that adulation to as abounding humans as possible,” said Laws.

Programs usually endure about 45 account and abide of abide achievement examples by the adolescence achievement bands and/or able developed musicians alternating with articulate narrations and photos alloyed throughout the session.

Treasurer for the Cascade Blues Association, Jerri Shelton said, “Blues in the Schools relies on accumulated sponsorship, clandestine contributions and grants from accessible and clandestine agencies and organizations. All contributions are tax-deductible. Benefit concerts and added fundraising activities are aswell periodically answer throughout the association to abutment Blues in the Schools.”

For added advice about how you can advice the Blues in the Schools program, acquaintance SixStringCentral School of Music at 503-760-4439 or appointment them at 5516 SE Foster Road in Portland. Six String Central School of Music can aswell be begin online at www.sixstringcentral.com.