Sunday, February 22, 2015

Blues in Schools

  
Cliff Yankovitch
 
As one of the roving reporters for this blog I got to witness a classic example of How Things Ought To Work recently. With a heads up from Lowell’s Harmonica in Chief, Chuck Myers, I sat in on a wonderful example of pretty much everything the Spirit of Harmony exemplifies. Chuck is a member of the West Michigan Blues Society (http://www.wmbs.org/) and he let me know that three of his fellow blues dudes were going to share their love and knowledge of America’s music with a room full of 5th grade students at Cherry Creek Elementary, part of the Lowell School District. Lowell, MI is a town of 4,000 people with a strong history of agriculture and a love of arts and music located 18 miles east of Grand Rapids.