"What a great idea!"
  

Sticking Up For Children began with an idea from Cyril Neville and bandmates of his in the Royal Southern Brotherhood, February of 2013.

 

The idea is that well-known drummers donate their used drumsticks and that these drumsticks then be turned into art-work. The drumsticks-as-art are then offered to the public as a means of funding entities that serve young people.

 

Sticking up for children! As Jonathan Richman, another of our supporters, says: "It's about time!"

 

Since our first Music & Arts Day, May 25, 2013, at the New Orleans Healing Center, Sticking Up For Children in New Orleans has involved hundreds of children, parents, and

individual musicians and other artists in our particular forms of  people-to-people exchange.

 

Sticking Up For Children in New Orleans now has four principal Benficiaries:

•The Foyer Espoir Pour les Enfants (FEPE) orphanage and school in Port-au-Prince, Haiti

•The Youpi Youpi school in Cayes Jacmel, Haiti

•The New Orleans Youth Sound Experience (NOYSE) classes in sound-recording in New Orleans, Louisiana

•The Kuumba Institute classes in music, dance and other arts

at the Ashe Cultural Arts Center in New Orleans.

 

We've also been blessed with Benfactors:

•The Royal Southern Brotherhood

•The New Orleans Healing Center

•The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation

•The Venezuelan Consulate in New Orleans

•Hudson Music

•The Vic Firth Company

*The D'Addario Foundaton

•The Jennifer Maxwell Foundation through the Marin Community Foundation

•Global Exchange, our fiscal sponsor

•WWOZ, New Orleans' community-radio staiton

•The Port-au-Prince International Jazz Festival

•Duende Restaurant

•Frey Vineyards

 

The musicians, other artists, and educators who have contributed to our efforts are so many that their entirety can only be suggested here:

•Cyril Neville   •Gaynielle Neville   *Yonrico Scott   •Yasiin Bey

•Stanton Moore   *Idris Muhammad   •Pedrito Martinez

•Evan Christopher   •Alfred Roberts   *Alexey Marti

•Johnny Vidacovich   •Donald Harrison, Jr.   •Dancing Drum

•Sallie Ann Glassman   •Maryse Dejean   •Anastasia Pelias

•Hamid Drake   •David Torkanowsky   •James Singleton

•Steve Smith   •Jonathan Richman   •Tommy Larkins

•Dr. John   •Fanfan   •Charlie Wooton   •Aristide Phillips

•Jeffrey Poitier   •Eve Pell   •Mary Allaire   •Brock Hinzman

•Derek Vincent Smith (Pretty Lights) 

 

Video from our first Music & Arts Day is above on this page.

Video from our second Music & Arts Day is on our News page. Video from the Foyer Espoir Pour les Enfants (FEPE) in January 2014 is on our In Haiti page and video from the New Orleans Youth Sound Experience (NOYSE) is on our Supporters page. Video of astonishing drumsticks-as-art from orphans at FEPE is on our Beautiful Drumsticks page.

 

Sticking Up For Children has grown under numberless hands over the past year. Please visit our Contacts page and join us as we work more to create a world that's sustainable for children.