{"id":94638,"date":"2019-04-12T20:14:57","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T02:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/animas-high-school-music-students-receive-1500-in-new-gear\/"},"modified":"2019-04-12T20:14:57","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T02:14:57","slug":"animas-high-school-music-students-receive-1500-in-new-gear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/animas-high-school-music-students-receive-1500-in-new-gear\/","title":{"rendered":"Animas High School music students receive $1,500 in new gear"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><!-- gallery:7bb8c571-31b5-487f-b428-39c756218a93 --><\/p>\n<p>Animas High School students broke out in spontaneous line dancing Friday as a bluegrass band jammed in the school\u2019s parking lot.<\/p>\n<p>Songs From The Road, a band from Asheville, North Carolina, visited the school as Tunes Ambassadors from the <a href=\"http:\/\/candaid.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Can\u2019d Aid Foundation<\/a>. The Longmont-based foundation supports music in schools, natural disaster recovery, environmental protection and trail development.<\/p>\n<p>The nonprofit also donated $1,500 in new keyboards, guitars, basses and other gear to the music program at AHS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s letting our program and the students in it thrive,\u201d said Alissa Wolf, executive director of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iammusic.us\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iAM MUSIC<\/a>, a Durango nonprofit that offers music classes at the high school. In the past, the nonprofit\u2019s staff members had to bring equipment back and forth to the high school because they didn\u2019t have instruments for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>As Tunes Ambassadors, Songs From the Road band members generally surprise students at disadvantaged schools across the country with concerts and new instruments, said Charles Humphrey, the bass player.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir faces will just light up,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Schools selected for donations typically align with a band\u2019s touring schedule.<\/p>\n<p>Sean Woytek, head of school at AHS, said the school was lucky to be selected because Can\u2019d Aid usually selects more urban schools for donations. AHS also received its donation a few weeks ahead of the concert, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Many schools are in need of music equipment particularly in Colorado because of tight funding for education, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(Music) is pretty cost intensive, so it tends to be one of the first programs to be cut,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>iAM MUSIC provides music education at AHS, Big Picture High School and The Liberty School, Wolf said. AHS students learn music theory, performance skills and the business side of the music industry so they can form their own bands if they choose, she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe try to make it as real as possible,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:mshinn@durangoherald.com\">mshinn@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foundation donates instruments<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5794,5735],"tags":[1644,559],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-94638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-news","tag-animas-high-school","tag-music"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94638"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=94638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}