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Outstanding Student Musicians Honored With 2015 Bob Novack Music Awards

Music faculty at two local public schools select their most talented and dedicated students each year and 1308 Productions presents each one with the Bob Novack Music Award and a scholarship check to recognize them and inspire their continued achievement. The 2015 award winners are Leonardo Tedesco at Nautilus Middle School and Tobias Pagliaroli at RKB Bay Harbor K-8 Center. Leonardo Tedesco is an outstanding music student, a skilled bass guitarist, and a devoted assistant Read more…

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“CAROLE AWARD” Presented at Seniors Ceremony

The second annual Carol Taran Award for Excellence in Performing Arts at Miami Beach Senior High School was presented to senior Mary Figueroa, a superbly talented performer who was selected for the award by the faculty of the Fine Arts Academy at Beach High. “Mary is a shining star in musical theatre. She is extremely talented and has a phenomenal voice,” said Nina Duval, Lead Teacher and Fine Arts Chair at the high school. Mary will be attending Columbia College Chicago and Read more…

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SPRING 2015 UPDATE ON HAITI OUTREACH PROGRAM

1308 is in discussions with community organizations in Fauge, Jacmel, and Tabarre about potential future locations for an expanded kids music education program in Haiti. Classes in Tabarre are in transition; city officials were replaced without an election, city functions have been interrupted, and a local community foundation is interested in hosting the program there in the future. The instruments remain secure and will be transferred to a kids music program in another facility. A Read more…

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Bring an instrument on March 13 to Sweat Records

Support Sweat Records, attend Sweatstock, and help 1308 Productions provide instruments to kids in Haiti! Sweat Records is hosting a fundraiser concert on Friday, March 13th at Churchill’s. There they will be collecting donations of instruments and other musical gear for the Novack School of Music, our musical education program for children in Haiti. Doors are at 9pm. Cover charge is $5. Please spread the word and bring your no longer used instruments for donation.

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Miami Family Collecting Musical Instruments for Haitian Children

January 12 marked the fifth anniversary of the earthquake that left 220,000 people dead and another 300,000 injured in the Caribbean nation of Haiti. Despite humanitarian aid and efforts to help with rebuilding efforts, the country still faces a host of challenges. The Novack family of Miami is stepping in to assist Haiti’s youngsters with an area of education that’s often overlooked, even in American schools: music. They opened their first children’s music institution in Read more…

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Youth music program in Haiti (from Miami Herald)

Speaking of hope, I’d like to thank 1308 Productions , a nonprofit music education advocacy and public service organization, for giving hope to a lot of children in poverty stricken Haitian towns. The organization, run by siblings Allison and Jason Novack, recently established a youth music program in Tabarre, Haiti, and also in several other Haitian communities. And they did it with your help of donated musical instruments and sheet music. Photos of the program Read more…

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