Music education is an essential aspect of child development. However, because of budget cuts, especially in our inner city schools, music education is among the first things to go. Fortunately, Music Unites, a non-profit organization working towards empowering urban youth through music, is establishing music programs in schools most suffering...

The arts and music education is always the first to go during budget cuts. As cutbacks continue, there is a greater need for music non-profit organizations like Music Unites, which transforms inner-city landscapes by empowering urban youth through music by providing services in the schools to help create and fund...

In less than two years, Music Unites has grown exponentially and expanded a number of its programs. The New York-based non-profit has grown from an idea for an organization that would connect people through music and performance, to a boutique organization that is simultaneously supporting music education programs in urban...

Copyrights, co-publishing, exploitation, synchronization; these are some of the terms that were thrown around throughout the first class of ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) and Music Unites' Night School series. The joint endeavor, created to provide support and accessibility to emerging musicians, kicked off Tuesday night at...

Music Unites is joining with ASCAP tomorrow night to present "ASCAP's Night School: Publishing 101" the first in a series of four workshop panels developed to educate songwriters, labels and others involved in the music industry. The evening will culminate with a special performance by Cantora Records artist Savoir Adore.

Manhattan and its five boroughs from concert halls to parks to the 12,00 miles of NYC sidewalk will be full of music Monday, June 21 as part of the annual Make Music New York festival. Now in its fourth year, it is without question the largest and most varied music...

First Rihanna and Shontelle gave the US a taste of the Caribbean and now Capitol Records is offering up a male counterpart. An established star in his native home with six nominations during the 2008 Barbados Music Awards and a win for Album of the Year, Jaicko is poised to...

Music Unites will be hosting an event for Russian-Armenian violinist virtuoso Mikhail Simonyan and musicians from the New York Philharmonic on June 14 at City Winery to benefit the Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM) in Kabul, as part of Mikhail's Beethoven Not Bullets initiative.

"We wanted to help raise...

Music Unites Women's Empowerment Ambassador Rachel Platten, who recently played the Music Unites One Year Anniversary concert, is up for the chance to bring her happy, folk pop tunes to the Lillith Fair stage.

A long time dream of hers, the New York based singer-song writer has been entered in...

The Music Unites Youth Choir was given the opportunity this past week through New York charity Music Unites to visit Tainted Blue Recording Studio in Times Square, which has seen such superstar recording artists as Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey, Paul McCartney, Coldplay and more. The children were able to do...

With music education in danger as funding gets cut, organizations like VH1 Save the Music and Music Unites are more important than ever.

Founded in 1997, VH1 Save the Music has brought music education into the spotlight and kept it an integral part of a child's education by funding...

Music Unites celebrated its one year anniversary this week with a blowout bash overlooking the Manhattan skyline at the Cooper Square Hotel Penthouse. Supporters of this important cause, including Tinsley Mortimer, The Postelles, Richie Rich, and model/actor Eric West toasted to Music Unites' commitment to bring music education into underfunded...

Sting and his wife Trudie Styler gathered together alongside other legendary music icons across generations Thursday night for the annual Rainforest Foundation benefit concert at Carnegie Hall. Every two years, a slew of artists from different genres come together for an evening of music to support the preservation of rainforests...

It was just one year ago that New York-based charity Music Unites was founded by Michelle Edgar to support music education in underfunded inner city school districts and bring music to underserved communities. As a classically trained pianist, Michelle has always had a deep appreciation for various types of music...

Since he first picked up the violin at the tender age of three, classical artist Charlie Siem has been on a quick rise to stardom. On April 29, the same week of his Carnegie Hall performance, the virtuoso played an intimate benefit concert at SPiN NYC's Fred Perry Room as...

Move on over Justin Bieber, the hot new thing with the teen set is Owl City, aka Adam Young. Chances are even you have his fizzy electro-pop song "Fireflies," on your iPod---it's been No. 1 twice on Billboard, downloaded 1.4 million times, and heard from club to restaurant to Duane...

The week of violinist Charlie Siem's Carnegie Hall performance, Music Unites will host a ticketed benefit concert with the British virtuoso at SPiN NYC's Fred Perry Room as part of the charity's Classical Music Showcase Series.

Music Unites Classical Music Showcase Series artists have included some of the industry's most...

Music Unites welcomes Rachel Platten to be the newest member of their women's empowerment initiative with the presentation of an award at her Highline Ballroom opening for Carbon Leaf on April 15.

The Music Unites Woman's Empowerment movement was created to promote awareness about the importance of leadership and...

The Harlem School of the Arts has been teaching local children everything from music to dance to theater to visual arts for decades and was one of New York's most treasured educational institutions. Yet in recent years, the nonprofit school has met with financial ruin and sadly been forced to...

Delicate and ferocious, powerful yet vulnerable, 80's riot girl meets '90's Lilith Fair, Florence and the Machine's music can go from one extreme to the other in an instant of juxtaposing sounds and emotions driven by front woman Florence Welch's voice. The easiest way to describe them: pretty with a...