SANTA BARBARA BOWL
Santa Barbara – Students at Santa Barbara’s Monroe Elementary School were feeling the blues today and came away with a smile on their face.
They had a special lesson from an award-winning blues harmonica performer and teacher Gary Alegretto.
Each student received a harmonica, a lesson on how to play a basic song and some music history about the blues.
“We are propagating the blues as an American art form into the future, so what I ask you guys is to listen to the blues,” Alegretto said.
These visits by blues performers to the schools is coordinated by the Santa Barbara Blues Society and the Santa Barbara Bowl’s Outreach Program. The outreach program is funded in part through ticket sales, who provided the initial funding to this program.
