Vincent James music evangelist and National Holiday Creator
Vincent James has created a special day of the year and a week of the yearfor music for kids. That got me thinking of how late congressman John Conyers created Martin Luther King day as a national holiday an endeavor he told me was among those he was most proud of, which took him years to accomplish.
So my goal talking with Vincent was to explore what steps he's taken to create such a day, with the idea that there are probably lots of people out there who want to make special days for special reasons.
Vincent is the author of two books, 88 Ways Music Can Change Your Life
He and his wife have created Kids Music Day, which occurs in October,
And, Teach Music Week, which occurs the third week in March - the 15th to 21st this year.
His website is KeepMusicAlive.org
Another way his organization promotes music is with "instrument petting zoos" which have received foundation funding.
One of the steps they took to support the Teach Music Week was to reach out to celebrities. The breakthrough celebrity who offered to help was Julie Andrews and then Matthew Morrison (Glee, Broadway) who became their first celebrity spokesperson.
I asked him to share one of the stories about how music changes people's lives.
Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media.
He's given talks and workshops to Fortune
500 execs and national medical and psychological organizations, and pioneered
first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science and
Story. He hosts some of the world's smartest, most interesting and powerful
people on his Bottom Up Radio Show,
and founded and publishes one of the top Google- ranked progressive news and
opinion sites, OpEdNews.com
more detailed bio:
Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness (more...)
