With thanks to Michele for getting this thing started, here I am writing my inaugural post. Go team!
There's a lot of stuff worth writing about in weirdobrassbandland. One project that's been making me really happy lately is the RMO's collaboration with the Automotive High School in Williamsburg. The project is basically this: RMO does a series of workshops with the school's band in exchange for the school working a biodiesel school bus conversion into their curriculum. The bus, not coincidentally, will have been purchased by the RMO to be used on their 2008 summer tour*. The tour itself (if I'm not mistaken) will involve other community workshop-type things along the way and generally rocking the socks off of people who haven't yet
D-d-d-dayyamn! that's some fine project, if I may say so. They're already deep into the workshop part of it, which is some pretty cool community networking right off the bat. And try saying this sentence out loud to yourself: Sure, we'll work on some music with your band if you don't mind helping us never have to pay for gas again. Bonus that the students are learning stuff on both ends. There's also something fabulously Tank Girl-ish about dumpstering fuel for the purpose of going halfway across a continent to where a bunch of megalomaniacal yahoos are meeting and attacking with sousaphones and trambones**. I could go on.
Anyways, I think that what we have here is a pretty sweet example of how to take this sub-subculture of ours and work it into the community that surrounds it. And I say again, go team!
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* Last I heard they were still actually looking for a bus, so if you've got any leads, do cough up. And if you don't, you can still donate here.
** No, I don't remember a lot of brass in Tank Girl either. Maybe indulge me for a moment.
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