Early Wednesday morning, a truck laden with 3,300 pounds of music pulled up to a Mid-City storage facility.
Four sweaty staffers from the Tipitina's Foundation, the nonprofit philanthropic arm of the famed music club, spent the day unpacking, sorting and labeling brass, woodwinds, drums and more.
There's a little bit of everything, said the foundation's Lauren Cangelosi, flanked by 72 black trumpet cases stacked 10 high. Cellos, violins, violas, sousaphones, clarinets, baritone saxophones. You name it, we've got it."
Hand-written masking tape labels denoted each instrument's destination: One of 28 local elementary, middle and high schools, public and private, this year's beneficiaries of the Tipitina's Foundation's Instruments A Comin' program.
Since its 2002 inception, Instruments A Comin' has distributed $1.8 million worth of gear to more than 50 area schools. Tonight Tipitina's hosts the Instruments Have Come!" street festival and presentation ceremony to celebrate the arrival of the 2008 allotment of 488 instruments.
Four sweaty staffers from the Tipitina's Foundation, the nonprofit philanthropic arm of the famed music club, spent the day unpacking, sorting and labeling brass, woodwinds, drums and more.
There's a little bit of everything, said the foundation's Lauren Cangelosi, flanked by 72 black trumpet cases stacked 10 high. Cellos, violins, violas, sousaphones, clarinets, baritone saxophones. You name it, we've got it."
Hand-written masking tape labels denoted each instrument's destination: One of 28 local elementary, middle and high schools, public and private, this year's beneficiaries of the Tipitina's Foundation's Instruments A Comin' program.
Since its 2002 inception, Instruments A Comin' has distributed $1.8 million worth of gear to more than 50 area schools. Tonight Tipitina's hosts the Instruments Have Come!" street festival and presentation ceremony to celebrate the arrival of the 2008 allotment of 488 instruments.
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