What began in 2004 as a single light-hearted, faculty-driven concert has grown into a major fundraiser for Holicong Middle School and VH1's Save The Music Foundation. Music teachers Jim Glaser and Joel Chodoroff will be blending dozens of teachers, student and alumni musicians and singers for three performances on Friday and Saturday.
Glaser says his job is a bit like herding cats.
"We'll have an all-star choir made up of kids from eleven different elementary schools in Central Bucks of sixth grade singers, orchestra musicians from three different middle schools and one of the high schools," he said.
Glaser says they raised $35,000 last year for a school in New Orleans.
"We've seen the video of the kids from that school, I believe it's called the Thurgood Marshal Academy, getting to see and open up their instruments. The smiles on their faces, the fact that they're gonna have a band program this year just because of what we did last year," Glaser said.
In addition to dozens of schools, district faculty and area alumni are all donating their time for a cause they've been supporting for 15 years.
"If we reach our $35,000 goal this year, which we did last year, we know that there will be a music program in the Orleans Parish School District that gets to start a band program in that school next year just because of what we've done this year," he said.
The concerts also raise money through T-shirt sales and raffles.
"Last year, for example, we had a guitar signed by all the members of Fall Out Boy, and if you know anything about middle school kids, that was a very, very big seller because that's right in the wheelhouse of the kind of music that a lot of middle school kids like," Glaser added.
Tickets are running low, but you can give it a shot here.