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National Music Council to Honor adeptly crossed almost every musical Take 6 and American Music T Egenre, R from straight-ahead jazz to pop, Educators at 37th Annual R&B, doo wop and blues. Like a finely- tuned vocal orchestra, the group continues American Eagle Awards to push the boundaries of creativity and N Emusical W genius Swith everyL new E release, T The National Music Council will honor demonstrating excellence for new iconic a cappella group Take 6, and pay generations of musicians and fans. tribute to music educators across AmericaT E R for their extraordinary service during the pandemic, at the organization’s 37th annual American Eagle Awards on Thursday, July 15, 2021 at the Summer N E W S L E T NAMM Show in Nashville. The honors are presented each year in recognition of those who have made long-term contributions toT E R American musical culture, to showcase the ideal of music education for all children, and to support the protection of creators’ rights both locally and internationally.

Take 6 The most honored a cappella group in history, Take 6 has been heralded by The Council likewise takes great pride in Quincy Jones as the “Baddest vocal cats collectively extending the coveted on the planet!” With 10 Grammy Awards, American Eagle Award to all of the nation’s 10 Dove Awards, 2 NAACP Image Awards, music educators for their heroic efforts to a Soul Train Award, and more, Take 6 “keep the music playing” during the Covid- (Claude McKnight, Mark Kibble, Joel 19 pandemic. “We wanted to do something Kibble, Dave Thomas, Alvin Chea and special for the music teachers and Khristian Dentley) continues year after year administrators who have worked tirelessly to bring extraordinary vocal performances in our schools and in private studios across to their worldwide audiences. Take 6 has the nation for our children under the most challenging of circumstances over the past For more information on schedule, location year.” said NMC director Dr. David details, tickets, and sponsorship Sanders. “We want to let music teachers opportunities, visit www.musiccouncil.org know that their efforts really do make an or contact NMC Director David Sanders enormous, positive difference in the lives of at [email protected]. students, especially in times of a crisis.” A representative music educator from each Proceeds from the event support the state will participate virtually in the National Music Council’s music ceremonies. education advocacy efforts.

In 2020-21, the National Music Council ______brought diverse artists from across the country to produce a series of video messages thanking music educators and administrators for their continuing perseverance during these challenging times. Many of America’s greatest artists and songwriters participated, including Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood, Paul Shaffer, Rosanne Cash, John Rich (Big & Rich), Jim Lauderdale, Steve Winwood, Nile Rodgers (Chic), Donald Fagen (Steely Dan), Take 6, and the late Chick Corea – along with Country Music Arts ARE Education Advocacy Television’s “Next Women of Country” Campaign Update: Class of 2021 group Chapel Hart and up and coming singer-songwriter Paige King More than 2,500 Pledge signatories. Johnson, all offer inspirational words Your Pledge will help ensure students’ right throughout the video. They join us in to quality arts education experiences in congratulating our music teachers at this dance, media arts, music, theatre, and year’s American Eagle Awards. visual art. You can scroll through a complete list of Pledge signatories here. This year’s honorees will join a “who’s – who” of musical giants whose careers and Twenty Resolution Schools & Districts. works have been previously awarded the Congratulations to ARE Resolution schools American Eagle, including Stephen and districts that have passed the Sondheim, Quincy Jones, Herbie Hancock, Resolution and committed to maintaining Clive Davis, Benny Goodman, Lionel and growing their arts education programs Hampton, Dizzy Gillespie, Morton Gould, in 2021-22 and beyond. See the list here Dave Brubeck, Marian Anderson, Max Roach, Lena Horne, Roy Clark, Crystal Elementary and Secondary Education Gale, George Clinton, Ervin Drake, Theo Relief funding (ESSER). The Campaign Bikel, Vince Guaraldi, Roberta Peters, will be holding webinars in the months of Odetta, Patti Smith, Sesame Street, Hard June and July dedicated to helping arts Rock Café, and VH1’s Save the Music educators and advocates gain access to Foundation. Tickets for this event are ESSER funding. Find updates here. available to the general public, and the entire ceremonies will be Livestreamed See More Advocacy Action Requests via www.NAMM.com. Under NAMM & NAfME Member Reports 2 program, which, because of a successful trial is being expanded and offered for free to those referred by a physician, was MEMBER developed in a time of societal crisis and upheaval affecting the physical and economic health of a nation as well as the REPORTS world. This effort represents the ability of the human spirit to meet and overcome the worst of challenges and demonstrates the potential power of the arts in the physical American Academy of and emotional healing of disease.” Teachers of Singing The ENO Breathe program has reinforced the intrinsic place that the arts offer to The American Academy of Teachers of healing and well-being. Its collaborative Singing Gives Inaugural AATS Awards structure is at the point of being able to be for COVID-19 Response shared internationally and addresses the

less recognized issues of individuals who The American Academy of Teachers of have long-term suffering, both physical and Singing is pleased to present AATS psychological, due to COVID. Awards for COVID-19 Response to ENO

Breathe, Ian Howell, and International

Coalition Performing Arts Aerosol Study. AATS Award for COVID-19 Response to

Ian Howell: Your work with low-latency ENO Breathe: AATS Award for COVID-19 platforms and associated technology, and Response Creating an innovative and broad dissemination of instruction in its compassionate effort between the arts and use, has permitted widespread applications medicine to help relieve the suffering of that have allowed us to teach and perform individuals experiencing long term post- successfully in remote settings. These COVID respiratory and anxiety problems. innovations will have a lasting impact on

our profession. • Jenny Mollica, Director of English National Opera Baylis “Ian Howell (and his team of colleagues, • Sarah Elkins, Respiratory including Kayla Gautereaux, Nicholas Consultant and Director of Perna, Joshua Glasner, and Chadley Integrated Care at Imperial NHS Ballantyne, and a group of graduate Trust, lead doctor students at NEC) worked both immediately • Suzi Zumpe, Creative Director of and continuously for months to test the ENO Breathe technology needed to accomplish sufficiently lagless virtual music “This extraordinary effort by The English instruction,” said Academy member National Opera in conjunction with the Kenneth Bozeman. “He interacted with Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust tech developers to stimulate targeted deserves recognition because of the improvements that teachers needed and creative and compassionate development continued to test and evaluate new of a program utilizing the collaboration of technologies and platforms throughout the arts and medicine to the relief of human summer and academic year, updating suffering,” said Academy member recommendations as needed. He shared Margaret Baroody. “This exceptional this information in on-line documents and 3 conversations, as well as in some short basic protocols as we continue to teach virtual courses (with Kayla Gautereaux).” and perform music.

International Coalition Performing Arts The American Academy of Teachers of Aerosol Study: AATS Award for COVID- Singing is a select group of internationally 19 Response Research on Aerosol recognized voice teachers and singing Transmission to Inform Safety Protocol voice experts founded in 1922 with the Measures for Music Performance Practices express purpose of contributing to the During the COVID-19 Pandemic. singing profession in an advisory capacity. The Academy works as a single body to • Mark Spede, Co-Chair, President of offer guidance through the publication of the College Band Directors National position papers on a wide range of Association (CBDNA), Director of subjects. We value and celebrate all styles Bands, Clemson University of singing. We speak with “one voice.” • James Weaver, Co-Chair, Director of Performing Arts and Sports, The AATS Awards were created “to National Federation of State High recognize, honor, and nurture outstanding School Associations (NFHS) accomplishment in the teaching of singing • Shelly Miller, Lead Researcher, and in allied professions.” The inaugural University of Colorado Boulder AATS Awards for COVID-19 Response • Jelena Srebric, Lead Researcher, were presented May 5, 2021. University of Maryland

“In March 2020 musicians around the world were stunned to learn that gathering to American Guild of Organists play wind instruments or singing may be activities that could result in significant ORGANFEST 2021: With the cancellation spread of the COVID-19 virus,” said of the 2021 AGO Regional Conventions Academy member Karen Brunssen. “In- due to the coronavirus pandemic, the AGO person music instruction and group is presenting a virtual celebration of the musical activities came to a halt in schools, organ, June 27–July 2. OrganFest is a homes, businesses, concert halls, theaters, collection of performances from all seven and in places of worship. All grappled to AGO regions, including performances by first understand why these activities may the winners of the AGO/Quimby Regional be risky, and then what measures could be Competitions for Young Organists. For taken to mitigate risks. Three research more information, click here. reports from the International Coalition of Performing Arts Aerosol Study provided Pipe Organ Encounters: The AGO will needed information specific to instruments present two Pipe Organ Encounters and voices, and suggested limitations and (POEs) for youth this summer, one in- potential protocols, including masking, person (Kansas State University) and one social distancing, room ventilation, and virtual. POEs offer teenagers and adults a more, for the health and safety of all rewarding opportunity to learn more about involved.” the pipe organ and its construction, The study gave us concrete evidence of instruction with experienced faculty, visits the transmission of COVID by aerosol to hear and play outstanding instruments, circulation which has informed our most and the chance to meet and interact with peers who share an interest in the King of

4 Instruments. For more information, click federal relief packages, to creating digital here. resource centers, and beyond. BMI also continued our longstanding tradition of Salisbury Scholarships: The Salisbury celebrating our top songwriters and Scholarships support full-time graduate publishers across genres by shifting our students in their growth as performers, annual award shows to virtual celebrations. conductors, or academics in the field of The company was also proud to pay tribute sacred music. Beginning with the 2021– to the incredible diversity among our 2022 academic year, two Salisbury affiliates with online experiences, from our Scholarships in the amount of $10,000 Black music creators, women composers apiece will be awarded each year to a and songwriters, those within the LGBTQ+ master’s and doctoral student, with a total and Asian American Pacific Islander annual distribution of $20,000 annually. For communities, and more, all of whom have more information, click here. made an indelible mark on music history.

Year of the Young Organist: The AGO In addition, during this period BMI National Council is committed to reinforced our commitment to diversity, membership recruitment, retention, and equity and inclusion and continued our growth within our organization. During the efforts to help drive the meaningful change Year of the Young Organist, July 1, 2021– that remains long overdue. The company June 30, 2022, any individual under the took action both internally and externally, age of 30 can become a member of the including hiring a Chief DE&I Officer, Guild or renew her/his/their membership developing a team member volunteer for free as part of this program. Events and program to encourage taking personal new initiatives will be held throughout the action in our local communities, bringing on year. For more information, click here. Gospel great BeBe Winans as a consultant to help improve our DE&I work, and donating $275,000 to organizations BMI dedicated to advancing social equality and racial justice. We recognize there is more to be done and will continue our critical BMI has advocated for the value of music work down this path. and protected copyright for more than 80 years, and we have never been more At the end of 2020, BMI, together with proud of our songwriters, composers, and ASCAP, announced the launch music publishers than we have in the last of Songview, a comprehensive data year and a half. The unprecedented platform that provides an authoritative view pandemic impacted everyone, but of copyright ownership in the vast majority especially affected the livelihoods of our of music licensed in the United States. This exceptional creators who continued writing marked the first-ever platform of its kind, incredible music that brought us all making copyright data more accessible together during this challenging time. and transparent for the music industry and businesses that use music. In January of Throughout the pandemic, BMI team 2021, after initiating an evaluation of the members worked from home and BMI and ASCAP consent decrees two continued to seamlessly serve our years prior, the U.S. Department of Justice affiliates, from accelerating royalty formally closed its review of the decrees payments, to urging lawmakers to include and took no action to modify or terminate financial assistance for music creators in them, but left open the possibility of 5 changes in the future. BMI found it last year or so is to be resilient. I expect encouraging that Assistant Attorney the fall will require our resiliency once General for the Antitrust Division of the again. But we must meet the challenges, DOJ, Makan Delrahim, made several because no less than the future of our art pivotal statements: Songwriters are the form is at stake! There is no giving up. backbone of the music marketplace and must be paid fairly; blanket licensing is Whatever the future holds, CBDNA is incredibly efficient, and BMI, along with poised to take the challenges head on. ASCAP, are innovating to serve the needs Until then, please take some time to of the industry with the value of music best breathe and get away from work for a bit. I decided in a free market, all points BMI has suspect we will need all our energy in the championed. coming months.

Looking ahead, as the pandemic situation Dr, Mark Spede, CBDNA National improves and we see a light at the end of President the tunnel, we applaud the creators who helped us all through this difficult time. Their music will always be what brings us together…and moves us forward. National Federation of

High Schools College Band Directors National Association

Has it really been fourteen months since the COVID-19 pandemic changed our world? I can’t decide if that time has gone quickly or slowly…perhaps both. Whatever the case, we have all had to reimagine our personal world both professionally and The NFHS and NAfME teamed up to launch personally. I truly hope that you are safe, Phase II of the Return to Music Project. This healthy, and have been able to maintain a phase features Student Social Emotional positive outlook. This is a time when we Learning (SEL), Teacher Well have to give ourselves some grace and Being, Elementary and Secondary School leeway, and certainly the same applies to Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER) students. We are ALL having a tough time, Opportunities for Music Education this or at least some days when we question, Summer and Fall, Learning wonder, and dream of what things used to Acceleration, Curriculum be like and how much we took for granted. Adjustments, Summer Opportunities, General Music Education, Secondary Ensemble At the moment we are hopeful of a return Considerations, Student Teachers, School to some sense of normalcy for the coming Owned Equipment and Uniforms, Cleaning fall as many of our institutions prepare for a Guidelines, Student Eligibility, State “back to normal” school year. What will our Association Changes, and Reporting ensembles look like? Will we still have to Differences use mitigations? No one can say for sure, and one thing we’ve had to learn over the 6 With Beginning Rooted in the Olympics, The Recording Industry’s Performing Arts Thriving in Nation’s Schools: Periodically, The NFHS Voice Music Performance Trust will be presented in the form of video. This Fund (MPTF) week, NFHS Executive Director Karissa Niehoff salutes the teachers and coaches MPTF Announces $2.2 Million in of performing arts programs across the Community Grants to Support nation who have kept programs going this Admission-Free, Live Music Online and year through the pandemic. in Person Throughout North America

The MPTF has announced plans to significantly increase the annual distribution of grants -- now $2.2 million to communities in the U.S. and Canada -- to fund admission- free, live musical performances beginning May 1, 2021. Plans signal an expectation for the return of in-person events as the COVID- 19 pandemic begins to subside. To help ensure live music's safe return, the MPTF is encouraging local union representatives of the American Federation of Musicians to work with state and local health officials to Music Publishers Association implement event safety guidance from the Centers for Disease Control of the United

States and the Public Health Agency The Music Publishers Association Annual of Canada, adjusting to meet the unique Meeting & Year-end Update is needs and circumstances of the local happening Friday, June 11 at 2PM community. EDT and will honor Bart Herbison of the Nashville Songwriters Association The pandemic devastated much of the International with the Arnold Broido Award traditional live music schedule since mid- for Copyright Advocacy and remember March of 2020. During this time, the MPTF Lauren Keiser with the MPA Lifetime created an initiative that has generated over Achievement Award. 700 free events by professional musicians livestreamed throughout North America, Kris Ahrend will also present an update supporting communities with more than $1 on the MLC and Peter Grimshaw will million in grants to pay musicians for their discuss in©, a new platform available to service. The MPTF also established a Music publishers and content licensors. The Family Scholarship that in its first year session will close out with the 2020-2021 awarded $100,000 to 125 children of Paul Revere Awards for Graphic professional musicians pursuing education Excellence, once again hosted by Frank J. after high school. Oteri of NewMusicBox at New Music USA. Grants provide funding for music education- This Zoom Webinar is FREE and open related performances, senior and assisted to all members as well as friends of the living center concerts, municipal series and industry. For more information, please parks programs. Grants are accessed, and visit www.mpa.org. events are coordinated, through local unions of the American Federation of Musicians. 7 Since the inception of the MPTF nearly 75 MTNA Stecher and Horowitz Two Piano years ago, in alliance with the AFM and its Competition: Registration for the MTNA– local members, countless performances by Stecher and Horowitz Two Piano professional musicians have delighted Competition will be available in September. audiences throughout North America. The This competition consists of two rounds. MPTF and its signatory record labels Warner The first round will be a video round and Music Group, Sony Music, Universal Music submitted online. The finals will take place Group and Walt Disney Records have at the 2022 MTNA National Conference. contributed essential support to these Applications and recordings will be due dedicated individuals who put the art and craft January 3, 2022. For more details, visit of performing live music above all else. www.mtna.org.

"We are eager to bring back free, live Save the Date music," stated Dan Beck, MPTF Trustee. "We now all have a greater appreciation of what MTNA Collegiate Chapter Symposium: these events mean to our local traditions and January 15–16, 2022, Virtual Event cultures. We believe businesses, arts organizations and municipal governments will MTNA National Conference: March 26– host more events to bring energy and life back 30, 2022, Minneapolis, Minnesota to their towns and cities." National Group Piano/Piano Pedagogy The MPTF is a 501(c)3 nonprofit public Forum: August 5–6, 2022, Phoenix, service organization whose mission is to Arizona support admission-free, live events performed by professional musicians throughout the United States and Canada. While stepping up our commitment to re-stimulate the musical arts, the MPTF will work with our recipients to NAMM follow local guidelines for safe practices. Most MPTF performances are presented with NAMM’s Advocacy Summit: Missed community co-sponsors, including businesses, NAMM’s Advocacy Summit? It’s not too nonprofits, and municipalities. Learn more late to view the packed sessions that at www.musicpf.org. support our work as champions for music and arts education. The summit platform will remain open and will be available on demand through the end of July. Register Music Teachers to attend today—the next generation of National Association music makers is counting on us! Register here. MTNA Student Competitions: Registration for the MTNA National Summer NAMM: Join us at Summer Student Competitions will be available in NAMM, July 15-16, 2021. The show offers August 2021. Competitions categories a historic and inspiring environment to include Composition, Brass, Piano, String, network with industry leaders, attend free Voice, Woodwind (applications due education sessions, explore Nashville-one Wednesday, September 15, 2021) and of America's most musical cities-and Chamber Music (applications due more! GenNext college music Wednesday, December 1, 2021). For more faculty, music information, visit www.mtna.org. educators, and music service and

8 arts organizations, including NAMM National Association of Negro Foundation Partners and Grantees are invited to register to attend the show. Musicians Learn more Founded in Chicago in 1919, the National Make Music Day: Make Music Day, the Association of Negro Musicians, Inc. is the annual global celebration of music held on country’s oldest organization dedicated to the summer solstice, returns this year on the preservation, encouragement and June 21 with an exciting, creative and advocacy of all genres of the music of diverse lineup of both virtual and in-person African Americans. In A Documentary music-making events that will immerse and History of the National Association of enthrall participants while spotlighting Negro Musicians (2004, Center for Black music’s power to connect, comfort, unite Music Research), Dr. Doris Evans McGinty and uplift. Over 90 U.S. cities and the (1924-2005) cites in "The Significance of entire states of Connecticut, Hawaii, New NANM" (p. 54) how the benefits of Mexico, Vermont and Wisconsin will take membership in the organization have part in the live, free daylong celebration, remained constant during its then, almost encompassing over 5,000 concerts, nine-decade existence. It is now 102 years performances, music lessons, jam young. sessions and other musical events nationwide. Safety protocols will be in For a nominal membership fee, music place following local requirements, teachers and musical performers had including mask-wearing, social distancing scores of opportunities to meet and and limited capacities and group sizes. compare notes with their counterparts from Learn More. other parts of the country; to hear concerts from familiar and unfamiliar musical The International Ukulele Teaching literature; to become acquainted with the Symposium: The International Ukulele new teaching techniques that were Teaching Symposium webinar series discussed in the workshops; to benefit from builds off the Believe in Music Week's exposure to high standards of Ukulele Teaching Symposium’s ‘big musicianship; to discuss mutual problems picture’ discussion about teaching and and strategize solutions; and to enhance learning to play the ukulele. This follow-up the status of the private music studios by series will examine specific, real-world allowing prize students to compete for established teaching/learning models scholarships. Here, too, was an opportunity which are serving large and age-diverse for young musicians to benefit not only populations. Each webinar will highlight from scholarships but also from the models that have shown sustained attention of professional musicians and to success over time by exploring the enjoy the fellowship of other young aspiring elements of their success, providing musicians. Within the NANM meetings, teachers the opportunity to learn, emulate, there are platforms for the seasoned artist and replicate. Expand music learning and to perform before an enthusiastic captive join the International Ukulele Teaching audience. In short, by providing a critical Symposium. Learn more. mass of African American musicians at its annual conventions and sustaining a network of communication throughout the year, NANM presents opportunities for growth as well as for fraternization with fellow musicians.

9 NANM, Inc., since its inception, has National Association for provided encouragement and support to thousands of African American musicians, Music Education many of whom became widely respected figures in music and contributed Christopher B.L. Woodside Named New significantly to American culture and music NAfME Executive Director: On May 14, history. A list of them would include such NAfME announced luminaries as Marian Anderson (first the appointment of scholarship award recipient in 1919), Christopher B.L. William L. Dawson, Florence B. Price, Woodside as its new Margaret Bonds, Warren George Wilson, executive director. James Frazier, Julia Perry, Grace Bumbry, Read remarks from Leon Bates, Joseph Joubert, Awadagin NAfME President Pratt, and many, many others. Former Mackie Spradley and presidents as Dr. Willis Patterson, Dr. NAfME division Roland Carter, Dr. Uzee Brown, Dr. David leaders, and hear Morrow and Mr. Byron Smith are still from Chris about his leading in the field of music, technology vision for the and the music business. These are giants association in the industry and role models for budding musicians. Its present president, Anne- Save the Date: NAfME Rally for Music Marie Hudley Simmons, has dedicated her Education: Mark your calendar for life’s work as an educational administrator, Tuesday, June 29, 10:00–11:30 AM CT to enrich the curriculum for young people (9:00–10:30 AM EDT) for the NAfME Rally K-12, through college years and for faculty. for Music Education. Join NAfME and state She extols the benefits of music in their Music Education Association leaders in this lives and the exciting programs that NANM virtual event, planning for the next steps in Inc. provides. Her goal is to maintain the music education advocacy. Registration music of the culture and build an audience information will soon be available here. that appreciates and performs it in excellence from child to adult. NAfME and NFHS Return to Music: Phase II Guidance and Resources: The In 2020, NANM, as did other arts agencies, 2021–2022 school year presents an faced a myriad of challenges; however, it opportunity to strengthen how we provide gained new perspectives and identified music education. On May 10, 2021, NAfME new platforms for changing the world and NFHS released “Return to Music: through music. Clearly, the history of music Phase II Guidance and Resources” to help from the African American experience music educators as they plan their return to could illustrate in bold language the history the physical classroom. This initiative is the of this Nation. For now, we know that this latest step in the collaboration between historic and extraordinary organization, NAfME and NFHS to support music The National Association of Negro educators. http://bit.ly/ReturntoMusic Musicians Incorporated, matters. Black Music Matters. NAfME Corporate Membership: NAfME’s K–12 music educator members are looking Adapted by Anne-Marie Hudley Simmons, for innovative solutions to their challenges 2021. For further information visit in the music classroom—needs that your nanm.org. company could meet. Introduce your company to this engaged and receptive

10 audience through NAfME Corporate So, the question is, how can music Membership. With a variety of options, educators and advocates make use of including our Summer Resources Page these funds to support more students and newer Platinum level membership, having access to a quality music education your company will have the opportunity to in school? strategically market your brand while To learn more about the possibilities and utilizing platforms that educate and the opportunity at hand: encourage collaboration with music teachers. Stand beside an established and respected music education association that • Watch this archived webinar supports its members, promotes music (https://vimeo.com/540281724), making and access to music education for showcasing music program leaders all school students, and advocates for and advocates from across the music in all our nation’s schools. Benefits country speak to how they have include discounts on advertising; made use of stimulus dollars to cobranded emails to music educators; support and grow music education. sponsored blogs and social media posts; In collaboration with NFHS and use of the NAfME Corporate logo; listing in NAMM. the NAfME corporate directory; discounts • Peruse this toolkit on ESSER on list rentals; webinar hosting; exclusive funding: https://bit.ly/ESSERtoolkit. exhibitor and sponsorship opportunities; and more. To find out more, contact Sharing Best Practice Ideas with the US [email protected], or visit Department of Education. Under nafme.org/corporate. Secretary Miguel Cardona, the U.S. Department of Education is seeking best NAfME Advocacy Updates: An practices from educators teaching during the pandemic. These practices will be Opportunity of a Lifetime – ESSER Funding and Music Education: In March, shared in a “Best Practices Clearinghouse” that focuses on ways to engage all the third round of stimulus funding, the American Rescue Plan, was signed into students whether virtual, hybrid, or in- person. Watch this webinar to learn more law. With this law came an additional $126 billion investment into K-12 education and download the template to submit your ideas. Created in collaboration with NAMM through the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund, and NFHS. following earlier investments in March and December of 2020 of $193.2 billion total to Congressional Briefing on Music, Arts support pandemic-era K-12 education. and Social Emotional Learning: Working Together for Positive Student This is the largest investment to date of Outcomes. This Capitol Hill briefing, federal funding into K-12 public hosted on March 24, 2021, by NAfME, education in our lifetimes. It is CMA Foundation, NAMM, and the Center unprecedented. And, it wouldn’t have for Arts Education and Social Emotional happened without the support for Learning, featured a panel of experts music, arts and public education speaking about the ways in which music advocates making the case for needing education supports students in their growth stimulus dollars for our nation’s to become resilient and socially schools. empowered individuals practiced in responsible decision-making. http://bit.ly/MusicArtsSELbriefing

11 Music Education and SEL: An Advocacy (NFMC). However, NFMC is still Tool for Music Educators: Social functioning despite the cancellation of emotional learning (SEL) describes the many meetings and activities for the past development of skills in three domains: year. Our second National Meeting was self, others, and responsible decision- cancelled, but things are finally looking making. This brochure offers ideas for how more positive, and plans for our 2022 music educators, school administrators, meeting are moving along. Competitions and school boards can connect music and awards still took place this year, with education and social emotional learning: most using virtual technology. http://bit.ly/ConnectMusicSEL One large award that has been given this year is the Ellis Competition for Duo Letters to New US Education Secretary, Pianists, as $20,000.00 first place award. Dr. Miguel Cardona: NAfME, working with NFMC is proud to announce that Michael the Music Education Policy Roundtable Rector and Sylvia Hong are the 2021 and with the non-tested subject areas winners of this prestigious award. Their coalition working on the NAEP prize also includes two years of concert assessment. NAfME produced and bookings through our NFMC award concert submitted a welcome letter to the new U.S. scheduler. This was the first time that this Secretary of Education, Dr. Miguel award was handled virtually, and we are Cardona, as well as letter with the NAEP happy to report that the auditions went very coalition. smoothly!

The National Federation of Music Clubs sponsors many competitions and awards for various ages, and below are several of National Federation of the awards that were presented this year. Music Clubs Most of the auditions were conducted virtually. The National Federation of Music Clubs was founded in 1898 and has become the • Junior Composition Awards - $8000 largest nonprofit organization in America to total promote and support American music, • Martha M. Mack Senior Vocal Award - performers, and music education. As a $5000 grassroots organization working in • Stillman Kelley/Thelma Byrum Awards - $4350 total communities throughout America, we • Michael R. Edwards Graduating Senior provide musical opportunities for all ages: Performance Award - $4000 professional and amateur musicians, • Five Student/Collegiate Awards (vocal benefactors, volunteers, music lovers, or instrumental) - $3000 each music teachers, music students, and • Thelma A. Robinson Ballet Award - supportive parents. Many opportunities and $2500 activities in which our over 121,000 • NFMC Classical Guitar Award - $2000 members participate are Festival • Ouida Keck Award for the Independent programs, competitive events, community Piano Teacher - $1750 outreach and just meeting music lovers in • NFMC Dance Awards - $1100 total our communities. The Covid-19 pandemic has been a strong The mission of the National Federation of force on all arts organizations, including Music Clubs is to support American Music the National Federation of Music Clubs and Musicians and Music Education.

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