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September 2, 2015 Visit the Ottawa Citizen website to read Lynn Saxberg's article promoting the Instruments For Africa Benefit Concert and Silent Auction at Irene's. September 6, 2014 Click here to read an Ottawa Citizen article on the May 2014 launch of the RBC Bluesfest Be In The Band program in Lusaka, Zambia. |
June 1, 2014
Click here to watch a documentary on IFA's first instrument delivery through Zambia. The documentary was produced by Zambia's Ministry of Education and is in two parts.
January 31, 2014
Instruments For Africa announces their partnership with RBC Bluesfest's Be In The Band program on CBC Television. Click here to watch the story by Waubgeshig Rice.
Instruments For Africa announces their partnership with RBC Bluesfest's Be In The Band program on CBC Television. Click here to watch the story by Waubgeshig Rice.
December 28, 2013
Instruments For Africa Hits Right Note. Once again IFA is honoured with a feature in the Ottawa Citizen's Upbeat section.
December 26, 2013
Ottawa neighborhood papers ran a story on IFA's successful trip to Zambia. Click here to read the piece in EMC.
December 17, 2014
British instrument manufacturer Beaumont donated some flutes to IFA and shipped them straight to Zambia on our behalf. Click here to read an interview with IFA's Todd Snelgrove from the Windspiration section of the Beaumont Music website.
October 17, 2013
Click here for a short article on IFA that appeared in one of Zambia's biggest national newspapers, the Post.
Click here for a short article on IFA that appeared in one of Zambia's biggest national newspapers, the Post.
October 16, 2013
Zambia's national broadcasting network was on the scene as instruments were dropped off at Lusaka Secondary School. Watch the student's reaction as they get their first taste of all the new equipment
Zambia's national broadcasting network was on the scene as instruments were dropped off at Lusaka Secondary School. Watch the student's reaction as they get their first taste of all the new equipment
May 16, 2013
Click here to read about IFA's instrument drive in Cornwall, Ontario from the Cornwall Standard Freeholder.
IFA is now collecting instruments in Cornwall, Ontario and The Cornwall Daily was there to pick up the story.
March 6, 2013.
The Ottawa Citizen sent a reporter to talk to Todd Snelgrove about about IFA's upcoming benefit concert on March 9 at The Rainbow.
March 4, 2013.
CTV's Regional Contact shot a feature on Instruments For Africa. You can watch it here.
CTV's Regional Contact shot a feature on Instruments For Africa. You can watch it here.
Metro Ottawa, March 4, 2013.
Todd Snelgrove, a music teacher for almost 20 years, went to Zambia in May 2012 hoping to give away a guitar donated by the Ottawa Folklore Centre.
On the trip, Snelgrove learned of a school that didn't have any musical instruments.
The headmaster enthusiastically invited Snelgrove to come and present the guitar and play some jazz and blues for the students.
“Easily the most spine-tingling performance I have ever put on,” Snelgrove says. It was a Bob Marley song that stole the show, though.
“I sang 'Don't worry about a thing,'” Snelgrove says. “And then 300 kids sang back 'Every little thing is going to be all right.'”
Back at home, Snelgrove put out the call for a full set of orchestra instruments for the school and so far has received 100 instruments that will be used to equip not just one but three schools. In the spring, he will travel back to Zambia with the instruments.
To donate instruments, and for information about a benefit concert on March 9, go to instrumentsforafrica.com.
-Craig and Marc Kielburger
Todd Snelgrove, a music teacher for almost 20 years, went to Zambia in May 2012 hoping to give away a guitar donated by the Ottawa Folklore Centre.
On the trip, Snelgrove learned of a school that didn't have any musical instruments.
The headmaster enthusiastically invited Snelgrove to come and present the guitar and play some jazz and blues for the students.
“Easily the most spine-tingling performance I have ever put on,” Snelgrove says. It was a Bob Marley song that stole the show, though.
“I sang 'Don't worry about a thing,'” Snelgrove says. “And then 300 kids sang back 'Every little thing is going to be all right.'”
Back at home, Snelgrove put out the call for a full set of orchestra instruments for the school and so far has received 100 instruments that will be used to equip not just one but three schools. In the spring, he will travel back to Zambia with the instruments.
To donate instruments, and for information about a benefit concert on March 9, go to instrumentsforafrica.com.
-Craig and Marc Kielburger
February 14,2013.
A new article about Instruments of Africa appears in Ottawa EMC:
Musician strikes chord for school in Zambia
January 19, 2013.
Instruments For Africa has the featured letter in the Ottawa Citizen.
December 13, 2012.
Todd Snelgrove introduces the Instruments for Africa initiative in this article from the Ottawa Citizen.
