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Happy Halloween from your friends in Brooklyn
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Nathan Englander’s First Crack Coffee for McSweeney’s, with William Hereford
Working on this with Nathan and Will felt like building a tree house with the big kids.
It’s an honor to work with you guys.
My good buddy and housemate, Ian Jones, will officially launch Young Voices Big Sounds tonight with a concert at the Kumble Theater in Downtown Brooklyn (7PM. Tickets $5).
Ian entered the New York Public School system as an assistant chemistry teacher at the Urban Assembly School for Law and Justice in 2008. A longtime proponent of the power of music to transform and build community, Ian was stuck by his school’s lack of a robust music curriculum, so he decided to create and implement his own. Easier said than done, but through his hard work and passion, he has in the past three years managed to expand his project beyond SLJ to the larger New York City community in the form of Young Voices Big Sounds, an interscholastic orchestra of high school students.
Ian is an inspiration and I wish him and all of his students the best.
Please “like” YVBS on Facebook and come to the concert tonight if you can.
(Video by Andrew Borden-Chisholm, another talented and awesome friend.)
