JAZZ LIVES AT THEARC THEATRE!

Thru Nasar Abadey’s Legacy Band

Did you know that in jazz the first instrument introduced is the voice ? Second is the horn, which imitates the voice and plays melody. Then next is the piano as an accompanist (support), which keeps the harmonic form and melody with chords. The bass is a rhythm instrument that provides the “bottom” with low notes and a feeling for the song’s structure while the drums provide timing, rhythm and momentum with a steady beat.

Today at THEARC Theatre children were given a lesson in jazz history and African American culture. The students are then taken on a journey starting in New Orleans traveling up the Mississippi, on to Chicago and New York. A variety of Jazz music, which originated in cities and towns along the way, is demonstrated by playing songs, both new and familiar.

The Legacy Band members are Nasar and Kush Abadey on drums, Caleb Lopez on saxophone, Janelle Gill on piano, James King on bass and Michael Thomas on Trumpet.
Everyone had a wonderful time!

WHY IS THEARC NEEDED?
Shockingly, the U.S. Census Bureau 2005 American Community Survey shows that our nation’s capital has the highest rate of childhood poverty of any jurisdiction in the United States. Three out of ten children in Washington, DC live at or below the poverty line—.

WHAT IS THEARC?

Ten non profit partners at THEARC have come together under one roof to help children.
Since its opening in 2005, Town Hall Education, Arts and Recreation Campus-THEARC- has become a national prototype combining social, cultural and health services. It is a $27 million 110,000 square foot center on 16.5 acres of land in Southeast Washington, DC. THEARC provides a daily safe haven for the children it serves, with a wide range of arts, educational, recreational, health programs and services. In addition there is a 365-seat theatre (the only theatre east of the Anacostia River) a regulation size gymnasium, computer lab, art gallery, state-of-the-art music and dance studios.

Will you contribute to help each charity fulfill their missions? Just click on the donate button! For more information about THEARC please go to our website http://www.thearcdc.org or you may call 1-202-4-THEARC (1-202-484-3272).

Selected for the 2008-2009 Catalogue for Philanthropy
“One of the best small charities in the greater Washington region”