Horns For Kids, Inc. is a tax-exempt (501c3) non-profit organization that supports needy school music programs throughout
Connecticut. Our main purpose is to encourage children to experience the thrill of performing music in school, and as a life-long
activity. H4K accepts funds from private and corporate contributions — and awards clean, playable instruments to deserving
school music programs throughout Connecticut. We accept donations of new and gently-used instruments, have them refurbished,
and distribute them to Connecticut schools. Since 2003, H4K has awarded instruments to well over 500 Connecticut schools.
CLICK HERE to see every instrument Horns For Kids has awarded.
Donate An Instrument
Donate a musical instrument to Horns For Kids, and we'll make sure that it gets to a student who can use it! All
kinds of gently-used and/or new instruments are needed: brass, woodwind, string, percussion and keyboards. Go to the
DONATE AN INSTRUMENT page by clicking on the "hot" musicians below -- or the button in the navigation bar. [Your donation is tax-deductible.]
Click on blue banner to make contribution.
Your tax-deductible contribution to Horns For Kids is urgently needed for repair of donated instruments. Even a contribution
of $5-10 dollars can make a big difference. Simply click on the Blue Button above
to go to the Contributions page. All funds received are used to support students in deserving school
music programs throughout Connecticut.
The Last Repair Shop is a short documentary (39 minutes)
about a Los Angeles downtown warehouse where a handful of devoted craftspeople keep over 80,000 student instruments in good
repair for students in the LA Unified School District. It won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film
in 2024. You will love this short film.
Arturo Sandoval, celebrated trumpeter,
pianist and composer, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013 at the White House. Born outside
Havana, Cuba, he became a protégé of jazz legend Dizzy Gillespie and gained international acclaim as a dynamic
performer. He defected to the United States in 1990 and later became an American citizen. He has been awarded nine Grammy
Awards and is widely considered one of the greatest living jazz artists. Click on the link under the photo above to
view an excerpt from his speech (:47 seconds).
— SOMETHING SPECIAL —
"One
Voice" by the
U.S.
Air Force Band (6:09)
Words & Music by Don Cook and David Malloy.
(Play
the video below. Select "Full Screen".)
H4K on WFSB, May 21
CLICK HERE to watch an extraordinary Q & A Session wth Wynton Marsalis,
members of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and high school musicians participating in the 2019 Essentially Ellington
festival in NYC.
CLICK ON PHOTO ABOVE TO SEE LARGER VERSION.
Christian Heritage School in Trumbull was awarded
a Bass Clarinet on May 12, 2015
CLICK ON PHOTO TO SEE VIDEO.
NYBERG Interviews
Horns For Kids
Fred Rossomando, co-director of Horn For Kids, was interviewed by Ann Nyberg at WTNH-8 on Tuesday, May 12. Ann
was very gracious to invite Fred on the program to discuss how Horns For Kids continues to support music education in Connecticut
by supplying instruments to needy schools throughout the State. CLICK HERE or on the photo above to see the entire program (23:09).
CLICK ON PHOTO TO SEE LARGER VERSION.
EDISON MS MERIDEN RECEIVED A VIOLA 11/11/14.
CLICK ON PHOTO ABOVE TO SEE LARGER VERSION.
CLICK ON PHOTO ABOVE TO SEE LARGER VERSION.
Kenneth Joseph (right) of Highville Charter School, New Haven, picks up a drum kit on Sept. 23, 2014
Horns For Kids awarded 69 instruments to CT schools on October 10,
2024. All the instruments have now been picked-by the teachers.
You can see where they went by clicking here.We'll have more instruments available in the spring, 2025. We're
getting more donations almost every day. [If you, or a colleague are not on our mailing list, send a request to be added to Lee@hornsforkids.org. You'll receive advance notice when more
instruments become available.]
Are You On the Mailing List?
Are
you on the mailing list — or has your e-mail address changed? — send a request to be added (or amended) to Lee@hornsforkids.org.
You'll be notified in advance when instruments become available.
Thank You For the
Instrument Donations
Thank you to all those who have been donating gently-used instruments recently (almost every day). We're
very grateful for the many quality intruments that will go out to schools. If you know of others who have instruments
that are "gently used", please let them know that Horns For Kids will get them to a deserving Connecticut school
music program. Instruments are always needed. If you have an instrument to donate, see the DONATE AN INSTRUMENT page.
instruments
Awarded
to Schools in April
Horns For Kids awarded 63 instruments to CT schools on April 18, 2024. We received 48 applications for the 63 instruments.We
continue to receive quality, gently-used instruments almost daily. They go to our repair technicians who check them
out thoroughly and prepare them to award to schools. Check back here frequently to see if instruments are available.
If you are not on the mailing list, or your e-mail address has changed — see the paragraph below. Thank
you to all the dedicated music teachers who applied and picked-up their instruments promptly.
