MMD Newswire: Press Release News Wire

March 17, 2010 (MMD Newswire) -- The "kids helping kids" outreach program of the North Park Middle School Band from Pico Rivera, California will be bringing together marginalized kids from four states to perform a concert in New York City's Carnegie Hall on Friday, April 2 at 8:30 P.M. Joining the 80 members of the North Park Band will be 10 children from Los Angeles's inner city facility "Children's Institute, Inc", where the North Park students give music lessons to kids less fortunate than themselves. Also joining them will be a young girl (name anonymous) who is under protective custody - also taught by middle school kids.

But the West Coast will meet the East Coast in a new uplifting manner. Joining them will be 40 East Coast kids all coming from outreach music programs developed by North Park Music Director Ron Wakefield. 10 inner city kids will participate from Baltimore, 11 from Brooklyn, 10 from Harlem, and 7 from the Shriner's Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

North Park and their outreach programs will be part of the National Band Festival at Carnegie Hall. North Park made world headline news in 2007 when they presented homeless children in concert at Carnegie Hall. Details can be found in the article "Finding a Home in Carnegie Hall", Los Angeles Times, May 29, 2007.

Contact: Ron Wakefield at (562)801-5137 or npmsmusic@verizon.net

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