Welcome to BigJoeDuskin.org !!!

 

Music education for young children seems to be considered a luxury in America.  Absolutely not.  It is more of a requirement than Reading, Writing and Arithmetic.  Click here to learn how music education increases children's intelligence and "learning to play a musical instrument changes the brain, leading to a slew of potential benefits, including improved learning and understanding of language."

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Our mission is:

 "To provide educational music experiences and encouragement to participate in school band for as many public school students as possible, primarily using local professional musicians."

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In the panel on the left, you'll find pages with all the info on the great things we've been doing.  Since 2010, over 20,000 students have seen our 70 performances in Greater Cincinnati elementary schools.  We changed gears a bit in fall 2014 and started writing checks to elementary schools for their music programs.  We choose schools based on their state exam scores, starting at the bottom of the list.  Music education for young children improves their language, math and science skills and these are the children who need help the most. 

Click on Cincinnati in the left panel for all the details.

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Everything we do is made possible by the Cincy Beerfest at Great American Ballpark (Sept 8, 2018) and the Cincy Winter Beerfest (Feb 1 & 2, 2019).

www.CincyBeerfest.com

Feb 17 & 18, 2017 was our 10th anniversary Cincy Winter Beerfest.  It's hard to believe... 

And, believe it or not, we've now raised over $200,000 to support music education in Greater Cincinnati public schools !!!

 

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Of course, you'll also find some great history about boogie-woogie pianist Big Joe Duskin.  Enjoy your visit and let us know if you have any questions or info we could add to the website.

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Lonely Instruments for Needy KidS (LINKS) could really use some help supplying school requests for instruments. Alto saxes and flutes in particular, but everything helps. They can be donated at any Buddy Roger's Music Store. 

Click here for full details on LINKS. 

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