http://brokelyn.com Food, restaurants, shopping and cheap fun on a budget in Brooklyn NYC Wed, 22 May 2013 14:55:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://brokelyn.com/brooklyns-future-meg-whites-need-your-vote/ http://brokelyn.com/brooklyns-future-meg-whites-need-your-vote/#comments Mon, 12 Apr 2010 10:30:05 +0000 Jonathan Berk http://www.brokelyn.com/?p=16832 Read More]]>
There are a lot of good causes out there looking for supportive clicks, but a rock’n'roll lab for girls is one we can get behind. Clinton Hill’s Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls has made musicians out of hundreds of girls and young women over the last four summers. Campers learn to play instruments, write songs, DJ, work a turntable and even defend themselves (against those future groupies, we suppose). Now the Willie Mae folks are trying to go year-round with an after-school music lab to train even more young musicians, amd they need votes to raise the cash. The music lab, which has been in pilot phase since January, is campaigning all month through the Pepsi Refresh Project, a funding platform for community projects, to afford soundproofing, instruments, band coaches, event promotion and classroom materials. The Pepsi initiative is kind of like Kickstarter, with up to 1,000 groups and individuals… Read More]]> http://brokelyn.com/brooklyns-future-meg-whites-need-your-vote/feed/ 1