The John Williams Foundation will be picking 10 bands to battle it out June 30 in the Battle of the Bands competition at Sequoya Middle School.
The winner will receive studio time at Rockhills Studio with Ray Sabatello, a former music teacher in the Sachem Central School District. The group will receive two days to produce one song and leave with a radio ready CD along with gift cards from Sam Ash for all participants.
In the competition, each band will come ready to plug-in and play. They will be given 12 minutes to play three songs, the first being the shortest as it will be a sound check.
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The foundation said there will be no band entrance fee, but each band picked will be responsible for selling 10 tickets and will be given two free. Tickets are $10.
All proceeds from this event will be going to the John Williams Foundation, whose mission is to supple Sachem schools with musical instruments that will be loaned to students wishing to participate in band/orchestra.
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The foundation was started in the wake of Williams being in front of his Holbrook home. He was a musician and fan of music and this spreads his name in a positive light after the tragedy that occurred.
“One day a kid is going to be handed an instrument maybe because of John,” Liz Durney, his girlfriend at the time of his team, told Sachem Patch, “and that instrument will change his or her life and take them on a better path in life. Music can do amazing things, it has a healing power that we are all using right now and every child should be able to experience that.”
For more information go to the foundation's website.
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