Newport Festivals Foundation Donates Musical Instruments to Gladstone Elementary
Thursday, October 05, 2017
Gladstone Elementary School students celebrate their new instruments with their music teacher, Jonathan Cox, and Ben Marcoux, Newport Jazz Assembly band leader (Back Row). Photo by Jack Casey
The Newport Festivals Foundation donated 16 musical instruments to Gladstone Elementary School in Cranston.
The instruments include one cello plus three violins, violas, clarinets, trumpets and flutes.
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST"Newport Festivals Foundation, Inc. strives to educate young people about the music of its famous festivals. Part of that education includes offering students the opportunity to experience making music. We are happy to work with local public schools, who still have music programs, to give kids the chance to express themselves in ways that complement reading, writing, and arithmetic,” said Deborah Ross, the Foundation's Director of Education.
Jonathan Cox, music teacher at Gladstone Elementary School, added, "It just doesn't feel right when we have students who want to learn in school, but don't have instruments. Because of the Newport Festivals Foundation, every student who wants to learn to play an instrument this year has that opportunity! How great is that?"
The donations were made on Thursday, September 28.
Other Instrument Donations
In addition to the donation to Gladstone, the foundation also donated guitars to Newport’s Pell Elementary School.
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