Adopt the Arts Brings Music Education to PSUSD Elementaries | Palm Springs Life
Adopt the Arts, a nonprofit organization working to provide music education curriculum for underserved elementary schools, is coming to the Palm Springs Unified School District. Co-founded by Grammy-winning musician and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Matt Sorum, and Golden Globe– and Emmy Award–winning actor Jane Lynch, Adopt the Arts has brought music education to several schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District, and they are excited to launch their pilot program with PSUSD at the start of the 2024–2025 school year.
Sorum hosted an open house at his Good Noise Music Studio in downtown Palm Springs. Averal PSUSD officials and Adopt the Arts 2024–2025 music teachers came to mingle, talk about the program, and jam out with Sorum.
Growing up in a household centered around music, Sorum says his mother and grandfather were both music educators. He was fortunate enough to be playing instruments and learning about music at a very young age. “When I formed Adopt the Arts, all those memories of what I experienced as a kid really became part of this equation,” Sorum explains. His goal is to give children the opportunity to fall in love with music and learn from it the way he did.
Sorum poses with students.
Adopt the Arts is not only providing PSUSD schools with a music program but also “providing quality enrichment through music,” says PSUSD superintendent Tony Signoret. “They’re not just donating instruments or bringing in some resources, they’re bringing in professional mentors and curriculum. It is a program designed to be sustained over the years, and it is definitely an opportunity we were not going to pass up,” Signoret says.
Commencing with the upcoming school semester, Adopt the Arts will be coming to Agua Caliente, Bubbling Wells, Della S. Lindley, and Vista Del Monte elementary schools, with plans to expand to Cabot Yerxa and Cathedral City elementary schools at the start of the second semester.
A resident of Palm Springs, Sorum believes this is the perfect place to grow the Adopt the Arts program due to the strong sense of community throughout the desert and the area’s ties to influential performers in the music industry.
“We’re all in collaboration,” Sorum says. “The teachers all have their own way of teaching, but we’re giving them the opportunity to expand, and we’re doing it with them — all of us are in this together.”
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