Synergia Northwest Orchestra Concert to Support Senate-House Bill 1329

Synergia Northwest Orchestra Concert to Support Senate-House Bill 1329

Posted: April 26, 2011 by Music Works Northwest in Uncategorized
Tags: bill 1329, music matters, Synergia Northwest Orchestra

Synergia Northwest Orchestra and rock stars perform May 6, 2011 at 8:00 pm at the Moore Theater to help support Music Education through Music Matters, WMEA and Music Works Northwest!

“Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you got till it’s gone…” laments the old Joni Mitchell song. When I moved to Washington in 1980 the Kent school district was the jewel of the northwest. They had highly rated schools and outstanding, nationally acclaimed music programs that have gradually been eroding away over the last two decades. Now to “save money they are talking about eliminating music, art and PE classes altogether in spite of the reams of research that concludes that student success can be tied directly to school music and private lesson participation. This pattern can happen here. Kent is the 4th largest district in the state of Washington!

Bellevue has outstanding schools. They remind me of the Kent district programs in the early 1990s with strong band, orchestra, choir and jazz programs district wide as well as comprehensive elementary music programs. These programs are in danger everywhere in Washington!

Senate-House Bill 1329 offers a self perpetuating source of funding for music programs state wide by creating a “Music Matters” special license plate. The bill is basically ready to pass if we can collect the 30,000 signatures needed to provide the state assurance that people will purchase these plates. The bill is endorsed by Washington Music Educators Association, by Music Works Northwest, Gerard Schwartz and many other community based music organizations.

On May 6 there is a special event produced by Synergia Northwest to support this bill as well as community music organizations including Music Works Northwest. This is a concert at Seattle’s Moore Theatre Featuring Alan White, Shawn Smith of Brad, Tennis Pro, Heart by Heart with Heart founder Steve Fossen, Somar Macek, Brendan Hill of Blues Traveler, Geoffrey Castle (a Music Works supporter), Michael McMorrow, Seattle Blue thunder, Queensryche and the Synergia Northwest Orchestra conducted by Dr. Nikolas Cole.

Tickets are available at www.stgpresents.org or by calling 877-784-4849.
Please support this event and save our music programs before they are gone!