Grant Allows Music Organization to Overcome Pandemic Challenges

Located connected the southbound broadside of Atlanta, the Atlanta Music Project (AMP) is simply a nonprofit enactment that empowers underserved younker done the powerfulness of music. They’ve precocious been awarded $100,000 by the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta.

Although determination hasn’t officially been an announcement astir what the wealth volition beryllium specifically utilized for, Co-Founder and Chief Program Officer Aisha Moody said that the wealth volition let the enactment to proceed the enactment that they’re already doing.

She is excited for the enactment to person the assistance truthful that they tin proceed to run successful idiosyncratic aft a twelvemonth of virtual learning.

“Of course, we’re each coming backmost from a pugnacious year, and to beryllium capable to travel backmost and inactive person the enactment of those radical that person been with america for truthful galore years, it means a batch to us,” Moody said. “And of course, it means adjacent much to our families, due to the fact that aft a while, this becomes a portion of them.”

COVID-19 has been a situation for AMP, due to the fact that virtual learning made ensemble euphony difficult. It was besides hard for the children to beryllium separated from the assemblage AMP has created.

“We were truly focused connected being capable to bring them backmost this fall, but we can’t bash thing without funds you know, and a batch of arts nonprofits suffered passim the pandemic, and we each suffered, but the information that we are capable to person enactment to support going and effort to prime up wherever we near disconnected is tremendous,” Moody said.

The tuition escaped programs offered astatine AMP are for students from K to 12. The children person the prime to play an instrumentality oregon sing successful a choir.

All that is asked of students is that they adhere to the attendance policy.

AMP was founded successful 2010 aft Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Dantes Rameau participated successful a programme that trained radical however to physique euphony programs. It inspired him to make 1 of his ain successful Atlanta.

“I person a content that euphony is simply a large conveyance for kids to dive into thing that is fun, but astatine the aforesaid time, it is challenging,” Rameau said. “[Music] teaches them astir themselves, it teaches them however to execute it, teaches them however to improve, it teaches them however to beryllium honorable with themselves and springiness themselves steadfast feedback.”

Rameau handled the orchestra broadside portion Moody handled the choir side. They started disconnected with lone 9 students and present service 350.

AMP is assemblage based, but those who bash not unrecorded successful the vicinity astir the enactment tin inactive beryllium successful the program.

“We spell into neighborhoods wherever you whitethorn not find high-quality younker orchestras and choirs and wherever you whitethorn find different factors that volition power the younker to spell down a antagonistic path. We spell into those neighborhoods, and we connection them precocious prime creator programs,” Moody said.

AMP tends to absorption connected neighborhoods and schools southbound of I-20 due to the fact that that’s wherever they consciousness the top request is.