More Musical Donations!

Manilow donates violins to Snohomish Co. schools
03:09 PM PDT on Sunday, April 12, 2009
By KING5.com Staff

AP
Barry Manilow
EVERETT, Wash. - Beginning next fall, two Snohomish County elementary schools will have a stringed instrument program, thanks to singer/songwriter Barry Manilow.
Manilow is donating 45 Yamaha violins to the school district through his program, the Manilow Music Project.
The Everett Symphony says the "Prelude Strings" program will be open to fourth and fifth graders at Hawthorne Elementary in Everett and Tulalip Elementary in Marysville.
The Tulalip Elementary program will run at noon, and the Hawthorne Elementary program will be an after-school program.
Ron Friesen, a 32-year veteran music teacher and band director, will donate his time to teach and administer the program.
Hawthorne and Tulalip elementary schools will share information with students and parents this spring.
“Every student who wants to participate will be able to,” said Friesen. “If a student says ‘I want to play,’ we’ll make sure they get to play.”

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Hello

I'm so bad at updating these things, I apologize! I've had computer issues lately as well as a monster sized history project that I should be working on right now. Good point, Barry is included in this history project, so it's ok!

Barry has been interviewed a few times since we last spoke.
http://men.style.com/details/features/landing?id=content_8438

Ok so the computer is being a jackass, so you can get all the latest Manilow updates from here: http://shadowsofmanilow.blogspot.com/ Because Moonstone is really good at keeping her blog up to date!!

On there is also some pictures of Barry out-and-about someplace, probably California somewhere. Very nice photos!

I have a project to get back to, please exuse my crappy posting.

-Kristen