VH1 Save The Music Foundation, Charter Communications and Houlihan's Partner To Present $600,000 Worth of New Musical Instruments to St. Louis Public Schools

VH1 Save The Music Foundation, Charter Communications and Houlihan's Partner To Present $600,000 Worth of New Musical Instruments to St. Louis Public Schools

What: The VH1 Save The Music Foundation with the help of Charter
Communications and Houlihan's Restaurants Inc., will present
$600,000 worth of new musical instruments to restore
instrumental music education programs at 20 St. Louis Public
Schools for the 2008/2009 school year. The donation is part
of The Foundation's efforts to restore 3 million dollars worth
of instrumental music programs nationwide this year.

This year's donation is part of an ongoing effort by VH1 Save
The Music and Charter Communications to guarantee that all
students in the St. Louis Public Schools receive music
education as part of their core curriculum. Since 1999
Charter Communications and VH1 Save The Music have provided
$1.25 million worth of new musical instruments to restore
music programs in 46 area schools.

Where: Patrick Henry Downtown Academy
1220 North 10th Street
St. Louis, MO 63106
Press check-in: Main Entrance

When: Thursday, September 18, 2008
1:00 pm
Press check-in: 12:00 pm

Visuals: The segment will focus on the students at Patrick Henry
Downtown Academy seeing their new keyboard lab for the first
time and then demonstrating the new instruments.

Contacts: Maura Wozniak/VH1 Shanna Mitchell/Fishman PR
212-846-7325 847-945-1300

2008/2009 Grant Recipient Schools: Patrick Henry Downtown Academy, Dewey Elementary, Mallinckrodt Academy of Basic Instruction, Stix Early Childhood Center, Wilkinson Early Childhood Center

Source: VH1

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