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Please come join us for Music on the Bay on Sunday June 16th at 6 pm. We're going on a Father's Day/Dragon Boat Festival Sunset Cruise featuring virtuoso Chinese instrumentalists, Dragon Boat Festival dumplings, fine refreshments, dancing and more. Tickets are available via PayPal (click the PayPal button on the bottom of this page) at $50 per person. The proceeds will support our music programs. For more information please send an email to purplesilkevents@gmail.com or go to our blog page at http://purplesilkmusic.blogspot.com/
Our Mission
Purple Silk Music Education Foundation is an Oakland California based non-profit that supports music education for inner-city youth. Our programs include the Great Wall Youth Orchestra & Chorus of Laney College and the Purple Bamboo Orchestra and Chorus of Lincoln Elementary School. Our mission is to instill in young people an appreciation of music from all cultures through instruction in traditional Chinese instruments.
Learn to play and perform
We welcome all children who wish to study Chinese and World music.. Classes for beginner, intermediate and advanced are taught every Saturday at Laney College. On Friday nights, we have rehearsal for the children's chorus. At Lincoln Elementary School, children from third through fifth grades receive weekly music instruction.
What does an instrument sound like?
The traditional Chinese orchestra consists of four sections: bowed strings, plucked strings, woodwinds and percussion. Pictured here, the Erhu is perhaps one of the most well-known Chinese musical instruments.
Contact Us
Email: 1sherlynchew at
gmail.com
Purple Silk Music Education Fund
484 Lake Park Ave. #366
Oakland, CA 94610
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