PAUL GREEN'S SCHOOL OF ROCK Goes Hollywood

PAUL GREEN'S SCHOOL OF ROCK Goes Hollywood

Los Angeles Campus to Open in February

Month-long Celebration Begins With Pair of School of Rock All-Stars Concerts

* January 20 @ Knitting Factory *

* January 21 @ Winter NAMM/John Lennon Tour Bus *

'Paul Green is letting his students in on a secret of life beyond school: Even stuff that looks easy is hard to do well ... I'd hand out DVDs of ROCK SCHOOL to everyone in the country with a teaching degree, and dare them to match this level of commitment.' - Ken Tucker, NPR's 'Fresh Air'

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Having already attracted the adoration of Hollywood on the big screen and concert stage, the notorious PAUL GREEN SCHOOL OF ROCK is finally going Hollywood for good with the February opening of its Los Angeles campus.

The West Coast launch firmly roots the PAUL GREEN SCHOOL OF ROCK in the music industry's top two markets -- New York and LA.

To celebrate this milestone school opening -- and kick off a year of accelerated expansion around the country -- the internationally acclaimed SCHOOL OF ROCK ALL-STARS will land in Los Angeles this month to perform special concerts at the Knitting Factory in Hollywood (Jan. 20) 7 PM and the NAMM Convention in Anaheim at the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus (Jan. 21) at 1 PM with special guest Mike Keneally. The SCHOOL OF ROCK ALL-STARS also will be the star attraction at a private party for Harman Music Group executives worldwide at NAMM, the nation's largest music convention. They have an appearance slated at 9 am on Friday on the Mark & Brian Show on KLOS.

"Some of the most important contributions in rock music has come out of LA, so the Hollywood/Los Angeles area is the next logical step for us," says Green. "Our shows have always been so successful when our students perform in LA and we will now have a permanent West Coast address which is just great."

As such, Green vows to offer a steady influx of special guest star instructors, seminars and teachers with "tons" of music business experience at the LA School of Rock. The LA branch manager will be Carl Restivo, a recent touring member of Extreme, whose long list of credits includes collaborations with Wyclef Jean, Patti LaBelle, Buju Banton and Kurupt. Restivo was most recently an instructor at the New York School of Rock. Two successful industry veterans have joined the SOR team. Lisa Roy, newly named Vice President on the School of Rock's Board of Directors, is based in LA. She has previously consulted for the GRAMMY(R) telecast and was Talent Producer for Music Player Network, Producer for Guitar Player Magazine's Guitar Hero Concert and Contributing Editor for EQ and Pro Sound News.

Atop the School of Rock management team is newly named CEO Matt Ross. Ross is formerly Senior Vice President of Sales at Clear Channel Radio where he also developed New York's Q104.3 into the country's top Classic Rock radio station. Together with Roy, they will align with Green to use the LA campus as a base of operations while the School of Rock's Southern California expansion extends "up through the Valley and down to San Diego."

The SCHOOL OF ROCK ALL-STARS arrive in Los Angeles fresh from their year-ending "Gone for Holidays" tour of the East and Midwest, in which veteran and newly rising all-star students (ages 9-17) from all seven East Coast school branches brought the "gift of rock" to capacity crowds of all ages with the greatest classic rock hits from Zeppelin to Zappa. Celebrating the fall DVD release of the internationally acclaimed feature documentary, ROCK SCHOOL, the SCHOOL OF ROCK ALL-STARS played live on the nationally syndicated Mancow morning radio show and on the Fox TV morning shows in Cleveland and Chicago. The tour also attracted significant press attention from major media outlets everywhere the kids played, including the New Yorker, Village Voice, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Chicago Reader, Time Out Chicago, Providence Journal, Burlington Free Press, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh City Paper, Cleveland Free Times and Columbus Dispatch.

THE PAUL GREEN SCHOOL OF ROCK -- the apparent inspiration for the Jack Black full-length hit comedy, School of Rock -- was founded in Philadelphia, PA in 1998, and is the original performance-based, interactive music school. The company presently operates 12 schools in major markets across the United States and is in the process of a large-scale development plan throughout the U.S. and abroad. To date, its students have played over 350 concerts to more than 100,000 people at legendary venues around the world. The primary goal is to foster a new generation of incredible musicians by exposing the students to classic rock amid a stimulating, interactive school environment. For more information, please visit www.SchoolofRock.com.

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