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The club had the pleasure of having Bernadette Bascom join us today to give us an update on the Music Project of Northshore. We are also proud of our ongoing support of the Music Project for over 10 years.

The Music Project of Northshore is a special needs and music partnership program to assist students in developing relationships, communication, music skills and rules of personal engagement…to foster inclusion and compassion in the process.

Bernadette is an emmy-winning creative director and founder of the Music Project. She has produced, directed and taught young people all over the country. She has had an incredible career as a singer and performer. She was the first artist who Stevie Wonder signed and contracted to his record label. She has performed and worked with everyone who really mattered in the music industry for the past 40 years. Bernadette has provided the Music Project program a unique vision of the importance of inclusivity through music.

For the past 10 years, Bernadette has worked with kids – all kinds – alternative, inner city, at risk, little kids, big kids, black kids, white kids, Asian kids, Hispanic kids, hostile kids, autistic kids, Down’s syndrome kids. She has found that she has an incredible affinity for them, but most importantly them for her. In 2013, she was the subject of an Emmy award-winning
documentary entitled “Bernadette’s Touch,” which chronicled the progress of a group from Northshore called “The Wranglers”. Their progress has been amazing in its simplicity that rhythm and speech are so necessary to each other. This is why Bernadette’s program works. The “inclusion” piece has come from her desire and ability to bring all these “kids” together to a common place where they can be compassionate, then have fun together.

Learn more and donate

Watch an inspiring video.

Make a donation and help keep the project going. PayPal or checks accepted.

Attend the upcoming annual Wranglers concert on December 2 at the Northshore Senior Center in Bothell, WA.