Esperanza Spalding Performs at Grammy in the Schools

Thursday February 09, 2012

From Billboard

Backbeat: Esperanza Spalding, Anthony Hamilton Perform @ Grammy in the Schools Live!
By: Mitchell Peters

The third annual Grammy in the Schools Live! concert featured not only a positive message about the importance of music in high schools, but also stellar performances by Anthony Hamilton, Esperanza Spalding and Terri Lyne Carrington, who were backed onstage by a slew of student alumni from Grammy Camp and Grammy Signature Schools.

Sponsored by Ford Motor Company and the Starkey Hearing Foundation, and hosted by 94.7 the Wave’s Pat Prescott, the Feb. 8 event — held at the Grand Ballroom on the campus of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles — stressed the importance of musical education in schools and the efforts being made on behalf of the Grammy Foundation’s Grammy Camp.

“Music and the arts are still among the first subjects that make their way to the final line for the chopping block,” Grammy Foundation and MusiCares senior VP Kristen Madsen told the crowd of a couple hundred people. “We not only want music in our schools, we need music in our schools.”

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