{"id":4871,"date":"2014-07-28T05:48:20","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T09:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilktone.com\/?p=4871"},"modified":"2014-07-28T05:48:20","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T09:48:20","slug":"musicworks-asheville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/?p=4871","title":{"rendered":"MusicWorks! Asheville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m very excited to have joined <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicworksasheville.org\">MusicWorks! Asheville<\/a> as a teaching artist last week.\u00a0MusicWorks! is an <a href=\"https:\/\/elsistemausa.org\">El Sistema<\/a> inspired after school program for children in Asheville, NC. It&#8217;s under the direction of Brian Kellum. We&#8217;re working with students at Hall Fletcher Elementary School, along with Hall Fletcher music teacher, Melody McGarrahan.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MusicWorks! is an intensive artistic and social program inspired by Venezuela\u2019s El Sistema, offered after school in the city of Asheville to children in underserved populations that uses music education as a transformative and Empowering tool to teach life skills.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Right now we&#8217;re starting with kindergarten and 1st grade students. Next year it will expand to include the rising 2nd graders and include new kindergarten students. It&#8217;s our goal to grow the program every year in this way.<\/p>\n<p>MusicWorks! Asheville was the recipient of a <a href=\"http:\/\/ashevillesymphony.org\/news\/asheville-symphony-receives-over-half-million-dollars-for-music-education\/\">grant given for music education<\/a> to the Asheville Symphony Orchestra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m very excited to have joined MusicWorks! Asheville as a teaching artist last week.\u00a0MusicWorks! is an El Sistema inspired after school program for children in Asheville, NC. It&#8217;s under the direction of Brian Kellum. We&#8217;re working with students at Hall Fletcher Elementary School, along with Hall Fletcher music teacher, Melody McGarrahan. MusicWorks! is an intensive &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/?p=4871\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MusicWorks! Asheville<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15350306,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1372,1383],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gigs","category-pedagogy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peFHCc-1gz","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15350306"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}