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Students plan benefit concert for Shropshire Music Foundation
From staff reports
University of North Texas students are joining with local elementary school students to spread the healing power of music in a benefit concert for the Shropshire Music Foundation — a nonprofit that provides free instruments and music classes to children in Kosovo and other war-torn countries.
The concert begins at 6:30 p.m. Friday in the Recital Hall of the Music Building, southeast corner of Avenue C and Chestnut Street. Admission is free; donations will benefit the foundation.
“The concert gives DFW-area children the chance to use their talents to help the children in Shropshire Music Foundation programs abroad — in Kosovo, Northern Ireland, and Uganda. It also gives them a chance to sing with college-aged musicians, and many of them are excited about that,” said Brittney Balkcom, a UNT undergraduate music student who helped start the UNT student group called the Students for the Shropshire Music Foundation after hearing about the work of the foundation. Balkcom now serves as president of the student group, which aims to raise money and awareness for the Shropshire Music Foundation.
Since 1999, the Shropshire Music Foundation has taught more than 10,000 young people through music, aiming to use music to help children heal from the emotional and psychological wounds of war.
UNT’s collaboration with the Shropshire Music Foundation began several years ago when Terri Sundberg, UNT professor of music, met Shropshire in California. Sundberg has since traveled to Kosovo to give concerts and to see the impact of the foundation on children affected by war and is collaborating with two UNT psychology faculty members who are studying the psychological impact on children helped by the Shropshire Music Foundation.
In 2009, UNT students were inspired to begin the student group benefiting the organization. Two past events planned by the UNT student group have raised $1,000.
For information visit www.unt.edu.
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