AXS TV and Spectrum announced a partnership with the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus (www.lennonbus.org) to sponsor the mobile music and video recording experience as it makes stops at three schools across the country, as part of the ongoing AXS TV Band Together For Music Education initiative. The Bus stopped stopped at the Fernando Pullum Community Arts Center, where legendary Earth Wind & Fire bass player Verdine White joined AXS-TV president Andy Schuon and local dignitaries for the presentation of a $10,000 grant to Fernando Pullum for the Center's contributions to the community and its students through music education.
Since its inception in 2022, Band Together For Music Education has effectively connected AXS TV with affiliates, local communities, and schools nationwide, in support of vital music education programs. Despite the vast benefits they offer students, music education programs often experience a severe lack of funding. AXS TV’s Band Together strives to rectify this by providing crucial resources to underserved music programs that best exemplify quality instruction, participation, and leadership. Music educators use the grants to repair instruments, buy equipment and uniforms, and purchase music, among other necessary materials.
To date, with Spectrum’s support and assistance, AXS TV’s Band Together has awarded a combined total of $160,000 in grants to 24 schools across 20 cities.
Building on that strong foundation, AXS TV is expanding its Band Together initiative in an effort to reach even more students. In addition to presenting select schools and organizations in areas served by Spectrum with $10,000 grants, AXS TV and Spectrum are sponsoring the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus to visit each recipient location—providing students with an exclusive, one-of-a-kind experience that will fully immerse them in several different facets of the creative arts. As part of AXS TV’s Band Together initiative, the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus is currently slated to visit the Fernando Pullum Community Arts Center in Los Angeles on September 19; followed by N.Y.C. LAB School For Collaborative Studies on October 9; and the James Whitcomb Riley School 43 in Indianapolis on a date soon to be announced.
