1,700 schools unite in music

1,700 schools unite in music
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Summary Singers, violinists, drummers and other young music makers will launch into I Wanna Play.

I Wanna Play, is a song by country music star Aaron Tippin. An estimated 650,000 students in 65 school districts in the United States and 1,679 in Canada signed on for the event.The seventh annual Music Monday is orchestrated to applaud the benefits of music education. It gives everyone an opportunity to be heard. Children at more than 1,700 schools, from gritty New Orleans to the wilds of British Columbia, unite in music, when for a single moment across time zones they will all perform the same song.A study of the program found group drumming relieved anxiety, stress and defiance.

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