Making a Splash for Charity
Musequality ramping up for World Busk Week 2011
British violinist David Juritz gets his feet wet at Manley Beach during his first busking tour in Sydney, Australia. These days, Juritz’s three-year-old organization, Musequality, is ramping up for World Busk Week 2011, a cause that has attracted string players of all stripes. Last year, Baroque violinist and conductor Andrew Manze and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra were among the 240 musicians participating in the event, which also drew many young string students, who took to the streets to raise $6,000 for the Holy Trinity Music School reconstruction fund and Instrumental Change in Haiti.
Musequality is the brainchild of Juritz, who has traveled 80,000 miles in a global trek that found him busking in some unusual places. So far its outreach programs serve the underprivileged with music education in Uganda, South Africa, Ghana, Thailand, and India. The program receives support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. “We’re making the step from being a kitchen-table charity to a small organization,” Juritz says. “When you have an individual interested in helping other people, a small amount of support for that person will go a very, very long way.”
The next World Busk Week will take place during the second week of June 2011. To register, visit musequality.org.
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