About LiveConnections.org
Launched in 2008 by a team of artists, educators and entrepreneurs, LiveConnections.org (LCO) is a non-profit dedicated to music, education and support for artists. We create innovative programs for kids, host concerts for the community and help artists build their careers and their connection to the region.
Check out What We Do to see our programs for kids and the community. From young people to senior citizens, from aspiring artists to seasoned musicians, we connect all kinds of people through all kinds of music.
Coming in January 2010Special Bridge Sessions
with the Philadelphia Orchestra School Partnership Program
These sessions feature teaching artists from LiveConnections and the Orchestra's School Partnership Program in explorations of the links between classical music and genres from Jazz to Latin. Each session will look at the ways music is created and feature performances by the artists and music making among artists and students.
For more information about these 5 sessions, click here.
LiveConnections.Org in Action
Click on the video to learn about our Bridge Sessions, where artists from different disciplines come together to make music for and with students and community groups. For more about Bridge Sessions, click here.
It's exciting to see our students so engaged, so enthusiastic about participating, filled with such authentic curiosity... You did such a wonderful job connecting, and bridging your musical passions with what's relevant and important to our students. I felt like we could have stayed there all day.
–Brett Shiel
Director of Community Relations
Freire Charter School
Philadelphia, PA
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Spotlight Profile:
Doc Gibbs
Philadelphia percussion mainstay Doc Gibbs has played with the likes of Grover Washington, Wyclef Jean, George Benson, Al Jarreau, Anita Baker and Erykah Badu and for years was musical director for the Emeril Live! show. A committed educator, Doc has been an important part of LCO's programming.
"Music is gone out of most of the public schools of Philadelphia. When I was going to school there were bands and orchestras in every high school. For kids not to have music, they're missing a lot. That's why what LiveConnections is doing matters so much—it's getting kids to experience the power and change that music can bring."