Music Basti :: Music for Social Change, Based in New Delhi, India

Partners & Supporters

By faith, February 14, 2010 11:52 PM

Our supporters and partners for 2010-11 include:

The YP Foundation

The YP Foundation (TYPF) is a youth run and led organization that supports and enables young people to create programmes and influence policies in the areas of gender, sexuality, health, education, the arts & governance. The organization promotes, protects and advances young people’s human rights by building leadership, and strengthening youth led initiatives and movements. Founded in 2002, TYPF has worked directly with 5,000 young people to set up over 200 projects in India over the last 8 years, reaching out to 300,000 adolescents and young people between 3-28 years of age.

TYPF believes in empowering young people’s access to information, services and rights such that they can build collective platforms to challenge and develop their leadership potential. We empower young people by supporting their work through Awareness and Advocacy Programmes, Community Based Partnerships and Communication and Skills Development Training. We work in the National Capital Region (NCR) and partner with youth activists and youth groups at national, regional and international levels. Our programmes have worked with young people across 13 states in India, including Punjab, Haryana, Tamil Nadu, Bengal, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Kashmir, Nagaland, Gujarat and Bihar. TYPF has supported 250 slum and street children across two locations in the NCR and partners with Today’s Youth Asia in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Dil Se Campaign

The Dil Se Campaign was launched in June 2005, with the objective of developing a scaleable intervention model that upholds the dignity and inclusive rights of the urban poor, specifically for children who live and work on the streets. Dil Se is not about short-term solutions; it is about building capacity in all sectors of society to help ensure that the most vulnerable urban street children have nutritious food, protection, health care, and proper education. Led by Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) Delhi, Government of Delhi, the Dil Se Campaign is a joint endeavor with the Center for Equity Studies (CES) and Aman Biradari.

About the Homes/Hostels | The homes/hostels provide centers for rehabilitation and education of children who live or work on the streets. They provide educational bridge courses, life skills training, medical services and recreational activities.

Bridge Music Academy, India

Bridge Music Academy offers students an international standard music education that’s aimed at instilling in its students a lifelong appreciation for music by providing a solid foundation in musical concepts that enables them to choose a professional career in music.

Hard Rock Cafe, Delhi

The 4^th Hard Rock Cafe to open in India, Hard Rock Cafe New Delhi is located at DLF Place Saket, a vibrant shopping and leisure destination for well-heeled New Delhi citizens. The 7500 sq ft state-of-the-art facility features 200 seats divided into three distinct sections, a stage for live performances, and Hard Rock’s signature retail Rock Shop. There are pieces from Hard Rock’s world-famous memorabilia collection, including items representing contemporary stars, such as Buckcherry, 3 Doors Down, and Black Eyed Peas, as well as pieces from music legends like John Lennon, Elvis Presley, Tina Turner and Madonna.

Global Music Institute

Global Music Institute brings a distinctive and modern approach to music education in India. Our curriculum is comprehensive in its true sense, with an in-depth study of Indian Classical and Folk music, the tradition and the root of our musical expression along with a broad range of musical genres including Jazz, Rock, Pop, Blues, Western Classical, and World Music, which are an integral part of the Indian music industry today. It also incorporates music technology and music business management, which we believe is very essential for today’s working musician. GMI has a diverse international faculty coming from various stylistic and cultural backgrounds.

British Council India

Skillshare International

Gibson Foundation

About Gibson Guitar | Gibson is known worldwide for producing classic models in every major style of fretted instrument, including acoustic and electric guitars, mandolins, and banjos. Gibson’s HD.6X-PRO Digital Guitar and the Gibson Robot Guitar represent the biggest advances in electric guitar design in over 70 years. Founded in 1894 in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and headquartered in Nashville since 1984, Gibson Guitar Corp.’s family of brands now includes Epiphone, Dobro, Kramer, Steinberger, Tobias, Echoplex, Electar, Flatiron, Slingerland, Valley Arts, Maestro, Oberheim, Sunshine Piano, Take Anywhere Technology, Baldwin, J&C Fischer, Chickering, Hamilton, and Wurlitzer. Visit Gibson’s website at www.gibson.com or www.gibson.com/press.

About Gibson Foundation | Founded in 2002, the Gibson Foundation is committed to making the world a better place for children by creating, developing and supporting programs and other non-profit organizations in their efforts to advance education, music and the arts, the environment and health & welfare causes. For more information on the Gibson Foundation, please visit www.gibsonfoundation.org.

The Music Room, USA

The Music Room where music dissolves all boundaries!

An innovative project highlighting five maestros musicians from South Asia, as well producing five fundraising events bringing music lovers together to support Music Basti. 5 Intimate and magical Baithak concerts with 5 Indian Classical Maestros: Pt. Vishwa Mohan Bhatt (October 2, 2010), Ud. Shahid Parvez Khan (February 26, 2011), Maestro Shashank (April 17, 2011), Ud. Wasifuddin Dagar (May 20, 2011) and Ud. Mashkoor Ali Khan (July, 2011- TBA). The Music Room, an intimate journey into the diversity and dynamic nature of Indian Classical Music! Just as the centuries old paintings depict, we’ll gather cozily around our visiting maestros for informal talks and extraordinary performances. No blinding stage lights, no hard seats, just a free and open exchange between artist and audience. And the magical creations of the rhythms and ragas…

The Music Room is a common project designed & produced by Veronique Lerebours & Girish Raj and presented by HarmoNYom “A Voice for Indian Classical Music”, a leading organization based in New York.

New Music Strategies

New Music Strategies is a pan-European strategy group for music culture, creativity and development. We are based in the UK, the Netherlands and Germany, and represent a wide range of expertise in the music and cultural industries.

Project Ahimsa

Project Ahimsa is a global effort to empower youth through music. The organization was founded in 2001 in response to the violent attacks on Sikhs and South Asians after 9/11. The organization operates under the auspices of the Patel Foundation for Global Understanding, a registered 501c3 non-profit based in Tampa, FL. Project Ahimsa’s mission is to empower youth though developing and supporting community based music education.