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ABSR launches Kickstarter campaign to build on-air studio and media lab at Alpha Boys' School

2/22/2014

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FUNDING GOALS - STRETCH GOALS

The levels of this project funding are as follows: We hope to raise $100,000 to complete the full studio and work stations but have set our Kickstarter goal at $23,000 for the basic on-air studio construction.

$23,000 (goal) for construction of a basic radio on-air/recording facility. This will allow the boys to record audio and "go live" from the campus in a safe and secure environment.

$35,000 for 2 additional work stations and networking for classes in audio recording and editing, plus the above.

$65,000 for construction of a permanent radio studio space, plus the above.

$100,000 for a permanent recording space, plus the above. This will network the rehearsal space and recording console with the on-air radio station. Students will have access to training on technology necessary to turn original music scores into programming for Alpha Boys' School Radio. A fully integrated broadcast and music production studio for the next generation of students at Alpha Boys' School is the goal of this project.


YOUR BACKING IS NEEDED

Government support covers less than half Alpha’s annual budget. The balance is made up by donations and entrepreneurial self-help initiatives linked to vocational programs. 80 boys live and learn at Alpha Boys' School today. About 30 of them are in the band. This Kickstarter campaign will create important, real-world training and employment opportunities for students like them interested in media production, promotion or presentation. With your help, and within just a couple years, hundreds of students will have the opportunity to learn the new skills necessary to join the global marketplace that is today's music industry.


WHAT WE HAVE SO FAR

Alpha Boys' School, with the help of WXGR, a not-for-profit, community radio station in the USA (www.wxgrfm.org), launched "Alpha Boys' School Radio" in September of 2013. This online radio station can be streamed now at www.alphaboysschoolradio.com and via its FREE mobile application for smart phones available in Android and iOS app stores. The radio station is fully automated 24 hours per day, 7 days per week broadcasting to 60,000 unique listeners per month around the world. The Alpha Boys' School Radio format plays the best of ska, rocksteady and reggae music. All of the music heard on ABSR has at least one graduate of Alpha Boys' School on the track. This is 'all Alpha, all the time'!

Alpha Boys' School Radio has been funded to date by WXGR, and Michael Wadleigh (Board President of Gritty, the USA-based 501(c)3 non-profit that operates WXGR Radio), as well as a most generous equipment donation from Seton Hall University. Kickstarter funding will provide for construction of the studio space at Alpha Boys' School (26 South Camp Road in Kingston, JA) in a building the school has set aside for the creative arts. If we can reach our Stretch Goals funding will also provide for production workstations that will allow the students to learn "real world" skills in the art of media and radio programming and production. When constructed by July of 2014, and if fully funded, the studio will serve many purposes including a live, on-air training center and recording space for not only the 80 boys that attend Alpha, but also teachers, students and beneficiaries from outside the school.

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The FREE mobile application is here

12/18/2013

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Now you can tune in to Alpha Boys' School Radio on your phone and mobile devices including iPad and iPod Touch with the official ABSR mobile application.

Download it for FREE by clicking the following links:

iTunes
Android Marketplace 


Alpha Boys' School Radio - your musical passport to Jamaica



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Alpha Boys' School Radio growing in popularity in Japan

12/16/2013

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In just over two months, Alpha Boys School Radio is now enjoying over 40,000 unique listeners from over 146 countries with the United Kingdom, United States, Japan and the Caribbean tuning in most often.   

Today we wanted to feature past Alpha Boy & renowned trumpeter Eddie “Tan Tan” Thornton who certainly boasts an impressive track record of collaborations; from the illustrious Don Drummond to The Beatles to, more recently, the UK’s retro-enthusiast favorites, sibling formation Kitty, Daisy and Lewis, he has played with some of the last century’s greatest musicians, and is, at the tender age of eighty-one, still very much active.

Lately, Tan Tan embarked on a tour of Japan, with Tokyo ska octet Cool Wise Man, which chose to support Alpha Boys’ School by adding a selection of ALPHAWEAR JA shirts to its merch table.   Check out the video of Tan Tan with Cool Wise Man below.



Alpha Boys' School Radio - your musical passport to Jamaica!

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