Music Club in Nola

Now having organized Carrotmob, I'm motivated and feel confident enough to try to work on another project. 

I plan on creating a kind of Music club in New Orleans which would work to connect volunteer musicians to underprivileged kids so that they can learn to play music for free. It would keep kids out of trouble and in school as it found to help give kids a passion as well as something to do rather than doing possibly destructive things. I'm really excited about this so I hope it works out. Rather, I'm quite confident this time as it is something good.

I need to follow the same kind of organization as I had done for Carrotmob. Such as the same kind of marketing to get students to want to volunteer as well but also to get students from schools to sign up. Another thing are instruments. We may require some donations or just the instruments from schools.

I think more than classic piano and guitar should be taught such as singing and even rap. So, I need the connections to those people are talented in those areas as well. So here is a list:

• harmonica
• piano
• guitar
• singing classical, rap, rock, folk

(I'm wondering if I should focus on popular music first and then move on to more classical instruments.)

I should create a sign up linked the instrument and time slots. This is kind of like the Public School.org.

So now to answer the questionnaire on the site:

• We are focusing on music education. 

Club members will be young musicians (even high school students). First I will reach for people within my network and let it spread from there. Afterward, I will start trying to post flyers up or ask music teachers for volunteers. 

I need to think of the officers but that will be after I figure out the whole organization of the club such as the marketing section, finance, volunteer manager, public relations, and communications.

I am told to give younger members leadership roles by dosomething which is good advice as I would need people to take over afterward. Probably the juniors in college as of right now or anyone who is a musician who is younger.

I could try to get this a Loyola program so that it becomes even bigger. It could become a Loyola music program, but I have the feeling that if it's associated with a school, it takes out the fun in the program, so perhaps that would be a stage that I will look into later.

I'm not sure if the club needs an adult advisor, but I were to look for one, it would have to be a music teacher.

A really good idea would be to make a big recruiting push at the beginning of each semester and at the end of each sports season when people will be looking for new things to get involved in.

The question is should I try to invite people on facebook who may be interested to volunteering as a music teacher to a First Big Meeting so that everyone can throw out ideas and brainstorm and at the same time see if they really want to join. Perhaps in one week from now, I could do that. I should create an informational email and a site. In this case, perhaps I do need a professor to back me up.

Things I'm going to have think about are:

• Club name: maybe The Nola Music Do Something Club
• Place to hold meetings: Audubon Park, Coffeeshop, LBC
• How often to hold meetings:
• When is the first meeting?
• Project idea and plan of action 1 + 2:
• Members' emails and leadership titles
• Official Club photo and video

Next thing I'm going to worry about after recruiting people is finding a space for people to teach music. I need to create a facebook page for this.

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