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Update #10: Rewards on their way!
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Posted on July 28, 2011
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Update #9: Our new website is now live + CNN Today!
Dear Backers,
The new Atlanta Music Project website is now live! It contains info about our program, our teaching artists, partners and boardroom. And as promised, we have dedicated a page to thank you, our backers who donated $15 or more and accepted our offer of being listed on our new web page.
Please visit the new website at:
www.atlantamusicproject.org
The Kickstarter Backer thank you page is:
http://atlantamusicproject.org/partners/kickstarter-backers/
In other news I am scheduled to be appear on CNN with host Ali Velshi today around 2:30pm to talk about the Atlanta Music Project!
Again, thank you for being some of the first supporters of this music for social change program. We couldn't have done it without you!
Best Wishes,
Dantes
Update #8: AOL 25 For 25
Dear Backers,
I appreciate your patience for your rewards. The T-Shirts were printed today with our new logo and the medallions are being made as well. We hope to get all the rewards to you by the Christmas holidays.
For now, I have some great news to share with you, which you can all take credit for because you were there when we were nothing and now things are starting to snowball. Now for two pieces of good news...
Number one: Yesterday I found out that I have been awarded one of 25 $25,000 grants for the Atlanta Music Project from the AOL 25 For 25 Grant Program. Here's two links:
The news article in Bloomberg.com:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-28/aol-gives-25-000-grants-to-bassoonist-photographer-of-ancient-bacteria.html
On AOL's website:
http://www.aolartists.com/25for25/
Number two: Tomorrow night is the Atlanta Music Project's first performance! And just as we promised, it will be an African Drum and Dance performance, paid for with your contributions. I will post all the pictures on our Facebook Fan page, which can be found here:
www.facebook.com/atlantamusicproject
Thank you for your ongoing support and stay tuned for more developments!
Best Wishes,
Dantes Rameau
Executive Director
Atlanta Music Project
Update #7: Please send us your information to receive your rewards
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Posted on September 28, 2010
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Update #6: We did it!
Dear Backers,
Well...WE DID IT! Thanks to your pledges and support, the Atlanta Music Project raised $19,055 on Kickstarter to fund music instruments, sheet music and an African drum and dance residency! When we passed $15,000 last Friday September 3rd, I started sleeping again, but now that we've surpassed our goal by more than $4000, I'm right back to not sleeping because I'm so excited about this program launching!
We will keep you posted about the details of the Atlanta Music Project via updates here on Kickstarter as well as on our website. Upcoming developments include the announcement of our program location and partners, unvailing of our logo and new website and more!
For those of you who will be receiving rewards for your pledges, you will be receiving an email from Kickstarter requesting information related to your award(s) such as proper name spelling, mailing addresses, t-shirt sizes etc. Please do not hesitate to contact me at dantes@atlantamusicproject.org should you have any questions or concerns about this process. I'll do my best to answer them.
Finally, I'd like to thank you all, not only for your pledges, but for helping spread the word, telling friends, emailing contacts and more. I can say without a shadow of a doubt that without your support the Atlanta Music Project would not be launching this fall. You have made this happen! Now it's up to us to take your support and use it to go change the lives of Atlanta's youth with music. Ladies and gentleman, El Sistema has come to Atlanta! Stay tuned!
Best Wishes,
Dantes
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Pledge $15 or more Pledge $15 or more
-Your name (or your organization's name) added to the Atlanta Music Project website's Thank You page. If desired we will add the amount of your pledge to your name.
Pledge $25 or more Pledge $25 or more
-We add you to the The Atlanta Music Project e-mailing list to receive our online newsletter. -Plus receive all the rewards above this one.
Pledge $40 or more Pledge $40 or more
-You receive your very own, brand new, limited-edition Atlanta Music Project T-shirt. -Plus receive all the rewards above this one.
Pledge $100 or more Pledge $100 or more
-You receive the coveted AMP medallion, a symbol of music for social change. The AMP medallion is only given to AMP students to wear for their concerts and is engraved with the AMP slogan. -Plus receive all the rewards above this one.
Pledge $500 or more Pledge $500 or more
-You receive a DVD of one of the AMP concerts from our inaugural year. -Plus receive all the rewards above this one.
Pledge $1,200 or more Pledge $1,200 or more
-We send Abreu Fellow and Atlanta Music Project Executive Director, Dantes Rameau, to your location to give you or your organization a private presentation on El Sistema, the Atlanta Music Project and how you can start an El Sistema-modeled program in your community. Please note, this reward is limited to the United States and Canada. -Plus receive all the rewards above this one.
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My name is Dantes Rameau and I'm originally from Ottawa, Canada but my music performance studies (I'm a bassoonist) led me to the United States. I've always been interested in using my art to uplift youths and communities. This passion led me to discover El Sistema, a monumental youth orchestra and choir system that inspires social change through music in Venezuela. Around the same time the New England Conservatory of Music announced the Abreu Fellows Program, a post-graduate training program for musicians who want to lead the El Sistema movement in the United States and beyond. As an Abreu Fellow I got to spend two months in Venezuela working within El Sistema and now I'm in Atlanta working for Atlanta's first El Sistema program, the Atlanta Music Project (AMP). In Venezuela, El Sistema serves over 400,000 kids. Our goal at the Atlanta Music Project is to give every child in Atlanta the opportunity to play in a youth orchestra in his/her own community. For my official bio and more about AMP please visit the websites listed below.
