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Canada’s music education charity, MusiCounts, announced that $1 million worth of instruments, equipment, and resources, will be divided between 95 schools across Canada through the MusiCounts Band Aid Program. The MusiCounts Band Aid Program grants up to $15,000 for high-need schools to furnish or refurbish their music programming. Sixty-five per cent of the schools that applied for the MusiCounts Band Aid Program reported an annual budget of $500 or less for music education at their school. With this in mind, the new instru-
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ments and gear these schools will receive through the Band Aid Program are oncein-a-generation opportunities. MusiCounts also announced an exciting partnership with TikTok Canada, who will be supporting secondary schools through the MusiCounts Band Aid program and MusiCounts Learn Kanata resource. TikTok will be donating a portion of funds to buy instruments for high schools across the country, and tips for teaching with TikTok will be integrated into the Kanata resource. The guide, a product of collaboration between several Indigenous educators, advisors and artists, led by Sherryl Sewepagaham, is a free resource for any
educator who wishes to bring contemporary Indigenous music into the classroom. “There are so many things to be excited about regarding the 2021 MusiCounts Band Aid Program grant recipients,” says Kristy Fletcher, Executive Director of MusiCounts. “The $1 million we are awarding will transform what music education looks like at these schools. We are so proud to be supporting new and existing music programs that represent all styles of music instruction to support young Canadians’ heritage, traditions, and interests. By collaborating with TikTok Canada, we are committing to evolving with music, technology, and young voices across the
country.” The $1 million investment will support 95 schools from coast to coast to coast, including unprecedented investments in the Territories ($173,000 to 16 schools) and the Atlantic Provinces ($218,500 to 18 schools). The MusiCounts Band Aid Program operates through an equitybased lens, and prioritizes schools that support Black, Indigenous, and people of colour (BIPOC) youth with culturallyspecific programming. Of the recipient schools, nearly 40 per cent identified as supporting large populations of BIPOC youth. Continued on page 3
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