Tag: Rebel Song Academy

It’s science: Music moves young minds, says singer-turned-nonprofit leader; festival to showcase how diversity of song shapes community

By Tommy Felts / August 9, 2023

A Kansas City non-profit’s punk rock move to improve teens’ mental wellness through song is getting an extra jolt from a $100,000 gift — funds that support the organization as it plans an upcoming music and arts festival in the city’s Northeast, as well as promotes scientific efforts to show how rock and roll impacts…

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Juan Carlos Chaurand, Diego Chi, Enrique Chi, and Duncan Burnett, Making Movies

Pandemic pauses genre-bending band’s tour, but amplifies message of music as a business, form of activism

By Tommy Felts / June 12, 2020

In a world where empathy can be in short supply, the brothers behind Kansas City Latinx rock band Making Movies see music and songwriting as a way young people growing up in a divided country can level the playing field. The key is exposing them to mentors who can illustrate what’s possible, said Enrique Chi,…

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