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Home Of Northshore Musicians & Artists
Home Of Northshore Musicians & Artists
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2008 Event Sponsors
Children's Art Stage Sponsor Poster Sponsored By Electricity Work donated by Organizational and Financial Support donated by the Ponchatoula Chamber of Commerce Publicity is made possible by a grant from the Tangipahoa Parish Tourism Commission
Restrooms Provided By Pot-O-Gold Printed Materials Provided By Premier Printing & Norman Falk The Northshore Regional Endowment For The Arts Board would like to thank Deborah Anderson and Anderson Small Business Solutions for chairing this year's event! |
Endowments Starting in 2007, our first perpetual financial endowment was formed. It is named the Kim Howes Zabbia Art Education Endowment. It was started with a $2000.00 base and monies were and will be solicited from other sources to grow this base. $600.00 additional dollars were donated at the 2007 Strawberry Jam. These dedicated monies are invested in a perpetual fund and the principal will not be touched. Each year, the profits from this fund will go to the art departments at both Ponchatoula High School and Ponchatoula Junior High to fund items that are needed to teach the students. It was estimated by Mrs. Zabbia that iin 2007, the art department received $115.00 per year to cover the expenses of art supplies for the 160 students that were taught. She estimated that it cost and estimated $5000.00 in supplies in 2007 to actually teach the students in an effective manner. Funding is currently solicited from outside of the school system each year to meet the children's needs. It is our hope that we can establish a financial vehicle that will perpetually fund the needs of both the high school and the junior high art programs for the future. If you are interested in donating directly to this fund, please contact Mrs. Deborah Anderson at or Dr. Ted J. Hudspeth at danderson.asbs@charter.net or strawjam@i-55.com. List of other educational programs that have been supported by the Northshore Regional Endowment For The Arts Provided funding for Recorder Music Classes to be taught to every 5th grader in the Ponchatoula School District at Martha Vineyard for the last 4 years. In this program, the Northshore Regional Endowment For The Arts purchased recorders, CD's and the music for all of these students to take a semester of music with the music educator, Mrs. Claudia Landry. This has been continued every year since that time. (This now totals about 1450 children in the Ponchatoula School District that we have provided instruments and teaching materials for in those years-This allows for every 5th grader in the Ponchatoula school district to have music instruction as opposed to just those who think that they want to go into band each year) Financed recording of and production of multiple compilation CD’s to feature local musicians to publicize them (This has helped publicize about 60 different bands from this region over the years) Send multiple students with financial needs to the SLU young musician’s summer camp each summer Provided funding of the art supplies and the purchase of a computer for the Talented and Gifted Visual Arts Program for Tangipahoa Parish (which supported arts programs in 10 different public schools in this parish) Financed Art Competition Awards at the annual Strawberry Jam Festival (this goes to local artists who participated) Financed Art Competition for the annual Poster Contest and then printed the posters (Multiple local art students have competed and won monies for the competition) Financed Songwriter/Song Publishing Educational Workshop for local musicians with a Nashville Songwriter/Publisher Financed SLU Community Music School Grade School Outreach Programs in the region (this program put music teaching programs in Hammond Westside school for 2 years) This was been done at the Community Music School at Southeastern Louisiana University under the direction of Dr. Thais Perkins. Financed Student with financial need to attend Talented and Gifted Algoma Music Camp in Canada Donated to Loranger HS Band for needed band supplies Donated to the Special Olympics Art Workshop to provide art supplies for those with special needs Organized and Taught Stringed Music Appreciation at Hammond West Side and Independence Schools. In 2004, the Endowment sponsored a direct teaching project in which a music educator went to 2 different parish schools and educated 100's of students on the differences between all of the stringed instruments. This included teaching the differences between various musical styles that the stringed instruments can be used in. The was capped off by performances in the schools by string musicians. Provided funding for Ponchatoula Junior High Band for Flip Folders Provided funding for Ponchatoula's Tucker Elementary School to purchase musical instruments and teaching supplies to teach classroom music. Provide Web site for local musicians/artists to put their information on the web Financed Hammond Junior High with Band miscellaneous band supplies Financed the Lifetime Achievement Award given to honor local musicians and artists that have done big things with their art (Hank Jones, Clarence Gatemouth Brown, Irma Thomas, Julia Sims, Carmel Foret, Reginald Sanders, Bill Hemmerling, Kim Howes Zabbia. Funded the seed money for the Kim Howes Zabbia Art Education Endowment which will be invested in the art education classes in the Ponchatoula School District at the High School and Junior High School Levels Below is a picture of Dr. Ted Hudspeth presenting Mrs. Claudia Landry with a check to cover the costs of the recorders/CD's/Music for her class at Martha Vineyard Elementary for the 07-08 school year . We also have produced and paid for 400 instructional CD’s – one for each student in the 5th grade in the entire Ponchatoula School District. Also, below is a picture of her recorder class in action.
Below is a picture of Dr. Ted Hudspeth presenting Mrs. Artie Fellom Gautier with a check to help pay for the Accelerated Magnet Program Hammond School District performance of "A Drum, A Drum" at the Columbia Theatre in Hammond, LA.
Increasing the venues where musicians and artists can be seen and heard will be the main way that the endowment will help musicians and by pooling marketing and promotional energies, more can be recognized for what they do. The endowment has sponsored and completed various compilation CD's of the regions most popular bands and plans to use this as a tool to promote these musicians with promoters and marketers. Providing free web pages for all of these musicians and artists is also a way for these guys to be seen by folks who may never have seen them before.
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