Local high school Oregon City Service Learning Academy recently awarded KBOO a grant to teach young people how to mix live bands. It was quite an honor to attend the awards ceremony which included luminaries such as local musician Obo Addy (on behalf of his Homowo foundation).  The students were big KBOO fans and familiar with our indie, punk and hip hop programs, amongst others.

The funding will pay for a sound engineer to lead a series of tranings, provide additional hours for our Youth Advocate to turn the trainings into an ongoing class and create a small scholarship to make the project more accessible and exciting for the youth participating.  This is especially exciting because we can use this curriculum to start training our adults with a more formal program as well.

The project is "Supporting Youth and Music: Live Music Production and Mentorship," and the goals are: 1. Teach youth the art and science of live music production while airing local bands live on KBOO 90.7FM.  2. Develop a curriculum for live music production for KBOO Youth training.  We identified needs to be addressed as: 1. Career development for youth. 2. Self-esteem based on healthy learning activities for youth. 3. Support of independent music.

Read more at http://www.oregoncitynewsonline.com/features/story.php?story_id=124215766120947500