Arts & Entertainment
Donate Instruments Today for Students
Long Beach Unified School District seeks to collect musical instruments so that local youths in need might have a chance to learn. Brother, can you spare a horn?
The Long Beach Unified School District is short of enough musical instruments to loan students that can't provide their own, so today a drive to collect donated ones kicks off at 9 a.m.
The goal of the drive is to collect new and used musical instruments to provide to students in the district. So, if you have an instrument collecting dust--that is in good shape and functional--still works, the local school district is asking that you donate it on Saturday.
The event will be held in Room C of the Teacher Resource Center, 1299 E. 32nd St., in Signal Hill, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
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Each donation will be tax-deductible.
The school district is specifically looking for violins, cellos, flutes, clarinets, saxophones, trumpets and trombones, but all instruments will be accepted.
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If you don’t have an instrument to donate, you may give a monetary donation to the Long Beach Education Foundation. To do this, visit lbschools.net/give and select the musical instrument you would like to donate money towards, and you can make a secure, online, tax-deductible donation.
The music programs at Long Beach Unified Schools have consistently earned honors for their excellence, and have won GRAMMY Signature School awards.
For more information on the need for musical instruments in the Long Beach Unified School District visit: http://www.lbschools.net/Main_Offices/Superintendent/Public_Information/Newsroom/articleDetails_NEW.cfm?articleID=1437