Education

Blues music is America's music, and young people especially, should know about the musical heritage of  America and of the Blues. Educating them on how America's music has evolved and how the Blues forms the roots of today's popular music is important to us. The recognition and exposure that Blues music has recently received from advertising, and most recently from the award winning movie "Oh Brother Where Art Thou" has led more people to appreciate the sound, style, and art that defines the Blues.

In 1978, the City of Chicago public schools introduced the "Blues in the Schools" program which is still going strong more than two decades later and has since spread all around the country and even around the world. In this program professional blues musicians are invited into schools to conduct classes on the history of the blues, famous blues musicians, different styles of blues, and how to write, sing and perform the blues. The ABS is proud to have such a program in place as well. In our program, local blues musicians combined with a culturally diverse all volunteer staff comprised of former educators, music professionals,  and other with a genuine interest in child development, are invited into schools to conduct  different programs tailored to specific age groups. While our program is in its infancy and just now beginning to obtain the required financial support required to put on these programs, we have been successful in conducting these session to several grateful audiences in many of the greater Atlanta School Systems.