Welcome to BigJoeDuskin.org !!!

Music education for young children seems to be considered a luxury in America.  Absolutely not. It is a requirement, just like Reading, Writing and Arithmetic.  Click here to find out how "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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In the panel on the left, you'll find pages with all the info on the great things we've been doing.  5,000+ Cincinnati, Ohio, USA elementary students saw our presentations in the 2011-2012 school year. And 8,000+ students saw our presentations in Columbus, Ohio, USA that we funded thru the Jazz Arts Group.  We also donated $3,000 to the World Piano Competition's Bach-Beethoven-Brahms program for inner-city school children and just increased that to $5,000 for the upcoming 2012-2013 school year. We also worked with the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center to support their Summer 2012 music program.

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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Our mission is:

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

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You need to have money to be able to spend it.  That's why we go out of our way to make as much money as we can, so we can pay musicians $125 each to perform in public elementary schools and encourage kids to join their school band. 

Please support our upcoming fundraisers below:

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Columbus Winter Beerfest on January 11-12, 2013 !!!

Many thanks Columbus !!!  

9,300 people attended and Saturday SOLD OUT again !!!

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Cincy Winter Beerfest on February 15-16,2013 !!!

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Labor Day Fireworks Party on September 1,2013 !!!

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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. Click here to join the LINKS Facebook page.

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