Sunday June 29th at 3 PM in the First Presbyterian Church of Denton, Texas (1114 W. University) Beverly Hoch, soprano and Mike Steinel, jazz trumpeter, will present a concert to raise funds and awareness for Instruments of Change® a special musical charity. They will be assisted by a wide variety of area musicians.
Ms. Hoch and Mr. Steinel teach music at TWU and UNT respectively. In August they will be traveling to South Africa with their daughter Grace and 10 others from around the country, to lead a first-ever Music Camp in the community of Homevale, District of Kimberley. Instruments of Change® is a new program of Covenant Children, Inc., a charity dedicated to relieving the suffering of orphans and at risk children around the world.  Covenant Children, Inc, based in New York. While in Africa Hoch and Steinel will lead a weeklong Music Camp in partnership local musicians in Homevale. They have requested help in bringing music training and instruments to some of the nearly 10,000 school children who live in abject poverty.  The group is already highly musical and wishes to have, as an ongoing project, an after-school Music Academy. 

Resources in the area are almost non-existent and the Instruments of Change® Music Camp will serve as an inaugural event for the Academy. The goal is to deliver instruments (recorders, winds, strings, keyboard and percussion) and teaching materials and to begin teaching some basic note-reading skills and instruction on the instruments, with the aim of training future musical leaders .  Steinel states “on this trip, we aim to plant the seeds of music education in an area where the children have limited horizons and little hope.”
The local concert on June 29th, with free admission, will feature a wide variety of music and musicians. Hoch is a classical soprano and Steinel a jazz trumpeter. Those attending the event will be given the opportunity to donate funds or instruments.  All funds raised will be for the purchase of new instruments and materials, or to repair used instruments. UNT Instrument repair specialist, Ann McMillan will be at the concert to serve as an appraiser to provide tax receipts to donors.

For more information e mail: ArdithCCI@aol.com or
S Africa Trp@aol.com