Derrick Tabb and 'The Roots of Music' Marching Band Members
New Orleans Rebirth Brass Band member and founder of The Roots of Music, Derrick Tabb is nominated for this year’s CNN “Hero of the Year” Award. The Roots of Music is a music education program designed to help the inner-city youth of New Orleans learn a musical instrument and assist children to excel in school. The program was established post-Katrina and co-founded by Allison Reinhardt. The program currently serves over 103 children.
The “Hero of the Year” award is given yearly by CNN to show recognition for the efforts of those who are making a difference in the community. The winner will receive $100,000 and title of “The Hero of the Year.” You can vote now as many times as you like on www.cnn.com. Voting ends on November 19th and the winner will be announced on Thanksgiving Day 2009. So go vote!
Also, show your support by attending The Roots of Music Marching Band’s upcoming performances on October 30th at the Louisiana Culture Economic Summit featuring Trombone Shorty and at the 2009 Voodoo Festival on October 31th. Visit their website at www.therootsofmusic.com for more information or to make a donation. Also, check back to THE DAILY LEAP for a full length article featuring an interview with Allison Reinhardt coming up soon!
Congratulations to Derrick on his nomination and don’t forget to VOTE! ~HR.
Click here to vote for Derrick Tabb CNN “Hero of the Year”!
From the latest album Q-tip released back in November 2008 ,”The Renaissance”, here is the third video released entitled “Life is Better”. The song is a collaboration with the Grammy-award winning singer, Norah Jones.
ARTIST SPOTLIGHT- P.J. MORTON
Grammy award winning producer and writer, P.J. Morton has been taking the Neo-soul world by storm over for the past five years. With noticable musical influences of Stevie Wonder and Musiq Soulchild, the son of Pastor Bishop Paul S. Morton has been able to successfully capture the essence of R&B and soul while still staying true to his gospel and New Orleans inspired jazz roots.
His latest album “Live from LA” (2008) brings you to a place where you can definitely hear his God-given talents as a singer and song writer. His latest project “Walk Alone” is scheduled to drop February 9, 2010 and recently, he released a new single entitle,”Love You More” featuring Tweet.
Check out a couple of songs from his “Live from LA” album and check back to THE DAILY LEAP in February for his new album review. ~H.R.
SUPERSTAR , BLAH BLAH BLAH , NO ORDINARY LOVE, I ONLY HAVE EYES FOR YOU, LOVE YOU MORE
Hello world!
“Rejoice in that day and LEAP for joy, because great is your reward in heaven…” Luke 6:23
Hello Leapers!!
Welcome to THE DAILY LEAP! I first want to thank my SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST for this privilege; for he gets all the credit for my creative abilities.
Secondly, I want to thank all of you for visiting my blog and welcome everyone to this daily adventure with me! I am so excited about having the opportunity to bring you a POSITIVE insight into the world of MUSIC, MOVIES, FASHION, SPORTS, NEWS, FAITH and EVERYDAY PEOPLE who are making strides and doing anything POSITIVE in Entertainment and in our Communities.
This mission is near and dear to my heart and my goal is to HIGHLIGHT those who don’t get the recognition for their positive work on any other forms of media. SO if you are totally interested in taking this LEAP (pun intended, lol), then let’s do it! Hope you enjoy THE DAILY LEAP, because it’s for you, the people. Much LOVE!
~H.R.
