Today, I am making efforts to find meaningful ways to promote the ideas that come across my proverbial desk every day. So much may be lost if I spend more time making it “pretty” or “refined.” Today, my solution is to make posts.

In October 2021, MMEA put out a survey to the membership. In it, we identified a few common themes.  We presented these results to the membership at the annual meeting during MWC 2022. Click HERE to view that presentation.

Following MMEA’s Board Meeting in March 2022, a small group was tasked to put action items to the needs voiced. Ben Bussey, a newly elected board member, sent the following set of resources.  Thanks, Ben, for stepping up to offer these for our membership.

Making efforts to get it done,

Jerri Neddermeyer, MMEA Executive Director at execdirector@mmea.org

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From the desk of Ben Bussey at bbussey@mmea.org

General music resources:
 – David Birrow’s bucket drumming book, blog, videos, commentary, lesson plans, etc – https://www.thebucketbook.com/blog
 – Lessons on Indigenous drumming – very thorough relative to Indigenous Canadian people – https://native-drums.ca/en/teachers/themed-resource-kits/
 – Carnegie Hall has a wide range of videos and lessons – styles of music presented by people of that originating culture – https://www.carnegiehall.org/Explore/Learn/Music-Educators
 – Carnegie Hall also has an incredible interactive timeline of Black American Music – https://www.carnegiehall.org/explore/articles/2022/01/11/timeline-of-african-american-music
 – Association for Popular Music Education – lots of odds -n- ends here – https://www.popularmusiceducation.org
Ways of bringing artists into people’s buildings for free/low cost:
 – COMPAS – https://www.compas.org

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