{"id":1836,"date":"2016-07-12T18:24:53","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T22:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/?p=1836"},"modified":"2016-07-12T18:54:39","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T22:54:39","slug":"mission-music-to-the-give-the-gift-of-music-to-children-in-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/mission-music-to-the-give-the-gift-of-music-to-children-in-philadelphia\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission Music to give the gift of music to children in Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PINE HILL, N.J., July 12, 2016 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) &#8212; Mission Music, a nonprofit agency that provides underserved youth with access to musical instruments and lessons regardless of their ability to pay, is donating a half dozen acoustic guitars to The Village of Arts and Humanities in Philadelphia, Pa., at 9 a.m. on Thursday, July 14.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/16-0712-Seifert-Greer-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"Skeeter Seifert and Zach Greer\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1835\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/16-0712-Seifert-Greer-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/16-0712-Seifert-Greer-600x450-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nMichael O&#8217;Bryan, program manager at The Village Of Arts and Humanities, contacted Zach Greer and Skeeter Seifert \u2014 founders of Mission Music \u2014 asking for guitars for the underserved children who attend The Village\u2019s free summer camps in North Central Philly.<\/p>\n<p>Greer and Seifert rallied together to collect as many guitars as possible, and, on Thursday, will deliver at least six acoustic guitars to The Village of Arts and Humanities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re excited about the partnership because it helps us expand past the South Jersey region,\u201d Greer said. \u201cOriginally, we had seen our services being within South Jersey, but that quickly expanded. We have actually shipped instruments as far as Tennessee. Now, as we focus on building in the Tri-state area, we can see our reach expanding nationally as we continue to grow. Partnerships like these are vital to our growth, as they help us reach an audience we may not have been able to tap into otherwise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/16-0712-mission-music-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"Mission Music - Join\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1831\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/16-0712-mission-music-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/16-0712-mission-music-600x450-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nMission Music is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that provides free musical instruments and lessons to children. Mission Music is completely funded by the generosity of its supporters through instrument donations and financial contributions.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about The Village of Arts and Humanities in Philadelphia, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/villagearts.org\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/villagearts.org\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about Mission Music, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.missionmusicnow.org\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.missionmusicnow.org\/<\/a>, find them on Facebook at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/missionmusicnow\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/missionmusicnow\/<\/a>, and follow them on Twitter and Instagram @missionmusicnj.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MEDIA CONTACT:<\/strong><br \/>\nContact Zach Greer at Zach.greer@missionmusicnow.org or call 856-553-3435.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PINE HILL, N.J., July 12, 2016 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) &#8212; Mission Music, a nonprofit agency that provides underserved youth with access to musical instruments and lessons regardless of their ability to pay, is donating a half dozen acoustic guitars to The Village of Arts and Humanities in Philadelphia, Pa., at 9 a.m. on Thursday, July 14, 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":1835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[191,45,173,56],"tags":[450],"class_list":["post-1836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-recording-news","category-education-news","category-new-jersey-news","category-non-profit-news","tag-music-education","has-post-title","has-post-date","no-post-category","no-post-tag","no-post-comment","has-post-author"],"acf":[],"views":8682,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}