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· The Long Center for the Performing Arts
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· Thursday, September 20 @ 8:30 PM
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AGE
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· All Ages
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PRICE
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· See Website
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· On Sale Now
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Kids in a New Groove's Music for the Soul with Michael Franti and Spearhead
Kids in a New Groove provides private music lessons and mentorship to kids in the Texas foster care system. Our vision is to build a solid foundation for foster youth so that they can age out of care or become adopted with measurable tools for success. Our program reaches children who have been removed from their homes due to abuse or neglect, and empowers them with the gift of music. Importantly, our highly qualified teachers move with our students when they are transferred between foster homes, giving them a friend and consistent mentor they can count on and trust to come teach every week, no matter where the child is living. Finally, every child can earn their own brand new instrument by participating in our program, all at no cost to them. Through Kids in a New Groove, music lessons become a lifeline to a better future for Texas foster youth.
Our fundraising event will be held on Thursday, September 20th at the Long Center with artist Michael Franti and Spearhead. His socially conscious platform in combination with his recent hit record "The Sound of Sunshine" is a perfect fit for Kids in a New Groove's mission. The Sound Of Sunshine -- the inspired and inspiring album by Michael Franti & Spearhead -- is a kind of musical sun shower, a bright, beautiful and often buoyant song cycle created to bring all kinds of listeners a sense of hope during rough and rainy times for so many in our world.
“Music is sunshine,” says Michael Franti, one of the most positive and conscious artists in music today. “Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood. Music gives us new energy and a stronger sense of purpose.” “Music is something you can’t hold in your hands, smell it, taste it or even see it, yet somehow just coming together and feeling these little vibrations that tickle our eardrums can somehow lift us all up out of our most difficult moments in life to unimaginable heights.”
For more information please visit: http://www.kidsinanewgroove.org/
THE LONG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
701 West Riverside Drive (at the corner of S. 1st Street)PO Box 301449Austin, TX 78703
512.474.LONG (5664)
http://www.thelongcenter.org/
- Nearest cross street is: Barton Springs & S. 1st St.
- Parking information: PUBLIC PARKING
Parking is available in the Palmer Events Center Parking Garage located between Riverside Drive, South First Street and Barton Springs Road just south of Lady Bird Lake in downtown Austin (cost: $7.00 per car, fee paid at booths upon entering garage). Click here to see driving directions to the Long Center.
TEMPORARY & MOBILITY IMPAIRED PARKING
3 M Box Office - Fifteen (15) minute Temporary Parking is located in our Keller Williams Circular Drive, directly in front of the Long Center. We invite you to park there to pick up your tickets, make a quick drop-off, or inquire about upcoming events at our 3M Box Office.
Handicapped/Accessible Parking is available in the Palmer Events Center Garage on all levels located near elevators. Beginning November 1, 2009 only the following patrons will receive complimentary garage parking: vehicles with a specialty license plate for recipients of the Air Force Cross, Distinguished Service Cross, Army Distinguished Service Cross, Navy Cross, Medal of Honor and Legion of Merit Medal; vehicles with a specialty license plate for recipients of the Purple Heart, Pearl Harbor Survivors and Prisoners of War (see House Bill 618 and City Code Section 12-3-8). Please see the Accessibility section of our website for more information or to contact the Long Center’s Guest Services Department for additional assistance.
VALET PARKING
Valet Parking is available for most public events and performances at the Long Center($18.00 per car). Please access the Keller Williams Circular Drive for Valet parking drop-off by driving eastbound on Riverside Drive and entering the first drive on your right past the Long Center (please stay in the right hand lane of the Keller Williams Circular Drive).
PALMER EVENTS CENTER PARKING GARAGE
(900 Barton Springs Road)
North Entrance - located off Riverside Drive next to the Long Center (accessed by driving Eastbound on Riverside Drive and turning right into the garage drive across from Auditorium Shores). Use the second driveway entrance past the Long Center.
Special Note: If traveling westbound on Riverside Drive you cannot turn left off of Riverside Drive into the PEC Garage/North Entrance drive or the Long Center Circular Drive, please proceed until you reach the traffic circle and go around until you are in the Eastbound lane.
South Entrance - located off Barton Springs Road next to the Palmer Events Center (accessed by driving westbound on Barton Spring Road and turning right into the Palmer Events Center drive in front of the water fountains).
TO ACCESS THE LONG CENTER FROM PALMER EVENTS CENTER GARAGE
On Levels 2, 3 & 4 proceed to the elevators located on each level at the north east side of garage (pedestrian directional signs will guide you) and go down to Level 1/Ground Floor, exit carefully through the garage entrance to your left and proceed to the walkway around the Keller Williams Circular Drive and into the Entry Level Lobby (next to the 3M Box Office).
- Directions: From the South, I-35
Take I-35 North
Exit Riverside Drive and head West (left)
The Long Center is on the left just past the intersection at South First
From the South, MOPAC (Loop 1)
Take MOPAC (Loop 1) North and Exit W 1st St/W Cesar Chavez St.
Follow Cesar Chavez to Guadalupe St and veer right onto the South 1st Street, then follow the South 1st street bridge across Lady Bird Lake
Turn right onto Riverside Drive, follow the traffic circle around,
The Long Center is on the right, just before the intersection at South First
From the North, I-35
Take I-35 South
Exit Riverside Drive and head West (right)
The Long Center is on the left just past the intersection at South First
From the north, MOPAC (Loop 1)
Take MOPAC (Loop 1) South W 1st St/W Cesar Chavez St.
Follow Cesar Chavez to Guadalupe St and veer right onto the South 1st Street
Then follow the 1st street bridge across Lady Bird Lake
Turn right onto Riverside Drive, follow the traffic circle around,
The Long Center is on the right, just before the intersection at South First
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