Music Friday 2011 Roll- Out One of Lancaster’s signature cultural events is First Friday. The sight of thousands of people downtown for a community wide event centered on the visual arts is extremely cool. In short, First Friday is a happening! Given the throngs that attend, it is easy to forget that it took a [...]

From: http://articles.lancasteronline.com/local/4/358558#ixzz1McMEUEu2 The members of a Plain-sect family gathering around a downtown piano to sing last summer is one of John Gerdy’s favorite stories. Gerdy, of Music for Everyone, the nonprofit group that organized the project that placed 20 pianos along Lancaster city streets last summer, said he’s heard many, many such stories of people [...]

From: http://articles.lancasteronline.com/local/4/385968 When Lancaster students pick up their instruments to play or look down at their music books before raising their voices in song in Lancaster Square this evening, they will have a local nonprofit group to thank. Music for Everyone supports music education programs in the School District of Lancaster and at other schools [...]

Congrats to the 2011 Grant Award Winners Beck Elementary, $875 Bonfield Elementary, $1,000 Lititz Elementary, $1,000 Washington Elementary (string program), $1,625 Price Elementary, $2,306 Burrowes Elementary, $1,750 Buchanan Elementary, $1,750 Lafayette Elementary, $1,975 King Elementary, $2,700 Wharton Elementary, $1,750 Fulton Elementary, $1,739 Washington Elementary (drum program), $1,250 Hand Middle School, $1,500 Wheatland Middle School, $1,500 [...]