"An Instrument of Unity"

Table of Contents Index Los Angeles Music Week LAMW 2006 Honorees Los Angeles Music Week Events LAMW Donors World Festival of Sacred Music Press Conference City Council Day Opening Ceremony Children's Day Closing Ceremony Awards Luncheon Introduction About LAMW Honorees Music Link Contact Sign our Guestbook About LAMW Los Angeles Music Week,  Incorporated  is a non-profit 501(c)3, community-based outreach program, now in its fourteenth year of service.  Each year during the first two weeks of December, Los Angeles Music Week  honors the various contributions of local landmark artists of all genres and works exhaustively to provide equitable access to music education for children.  LAMW shares the history of music in Los Angeles with children and event attendees, noting the part this city plays in shaping music nternationally.  L.A. Music Week is an instrument of unity, building bridges to the diverse citizenry while enhancing local tourism.  All contents are Los Angeles Music Week' exclusive intellectual property.  Permission must be obtained for use of these contents. To donate instruments to the fifteen council district schools and the  five county supervisory schools through Los Angeles Music Week, which LAMW annually services, please email melamw@earthlink.net or  dial 310-670-6898.  Your contributions are greatly appreciated and recognized. Please help students receive instruments and music education through your Ralphs Club Card purchases on behalf of Los Angeles Music Week, a 501c(3) non-profit organization that is now in its fourteenth year of operation.   See  Honorees Page for  those who have been blessed through this service.  Through your purchases, 4% will be donated to Los Angeles Music Week to raise funds for children.   Please  go to the Ralph Community Contribution, http://www.ralphs.com/ ccprogram.htm.  Click on Participant Sign Up, type in our NPO number 82218, your name, address and city,  so that Ralphs can process this information.    With your help, the many injustices of inequitable arts education can continue to be addressed.  Your cooperation and timely response are dearly appreciated.  Thank you !

PHOTOS OF THE 2000 CELEBRATION Los Angeles Music Week congratulates the assembled honorees. Standing are Community Arts Director Leslie Thomas, LAMW Director Margie Evans, Dean Larry Livingston of USC, Nancy Meyers, Virginia Bland, Stanley M. Gortikov, Atty. Mitchell Abbott, The American Youth Symphony Directors and Dr. Earl Sherburn. LAMW 2000 Honorees, The Pilgrim School, pleased press conference  attendees with their lovely angelic salutations.        Contact: Margie Evans, Director Los Angeles Music Week, Inc. Email: melamw@earthlink.net Post Officer Box 451146 Los Angeles, CA 90045-8511 Phone: (310) 670-6898 Fax: (310) 670-6908

Table of Contents Index  Opening Ceremony Children's Day Closing Ceremony Awards Luncheon Introduction About LAMW Honorees LAMW 1999 Honorees Joe Harnell Lalo Guerrero Dr. Thomas Somerville Elisabeth Waldo The Late Tito Guizar Michael J. Lewis, Welsh Choir of So. Ca. Marinna Waks, Children of World Choir Buddy Collete Jeffrey Kahane The Late Bobby Bryant Dr. Jacqueline C. Dje Dje Dr. Hansonia L. Caldwell Susan Treworgy, Reseda High School Band    LAMW Director Margie Evans  regales with 1997 honorees  Charles Veal, Jr. and Daniel  Pollack as Postmaster A. Kirby  Faciane presents framed stamp  enlargements to the honorees for  their artistic contributions.

"Success is there for those who prepare:"    The Biography of Margie Evans,       LAMW Executive Director and Founder Internationally renowned Louisiana-bred artist, Margie Evans, the Executive Director and Founder of Los Angeles Music Week, Inc., is a legendary entertainer, businesswoman,  spokeswoman and historian.  As the President of the 5-4 OptimistClub of Los Angeles,  music history, respect for law, educational achievement, endless perseverance and integrity are the tools of community building that springboarded the conception of L. A. Music Week.    Director Margie Evans is well established as a multi-talented lyricist, classy multi-genre entertainer, blues historian, community leader and motivational speaker.   She represents the Blues Genre with an uncategorical poise, dignity and trademark effervescently jovial sophistication, unlike the typical blues stereotypes.  She shares, "I've been around a long time and I've really paid my dues." A woman full of love, ideas and understanding of her culture, Margie's love for music is overwhelming!  This is due to her background, for she arrived in Los Angeles in 1952 to stay which allowed Evans some breaks in the entertainment business.  She performed with the Ron Marshall Orchestra at the Tikis in Monterey Park, California.  In 1969, Margie was introduced to the famous Johnny Otis by Hector Revere and became internationally known by touring Far East Asia with the Johnny Otis Show.  With an extensive discography, Evans  has also served as both producer and co-producer of many records, including six records  for Bobby "Blue" Bland for Monk Higgins Productions.  The multi- talented artist has performed with many great entertainers: B.B. King, Joe Turner, Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, Albert King, Pee Wee Crayton and Willie Dixon, among countless others. Never complacent with just one facet of her soaring career, Margie Evans' burden for musical education in our beloved city of Los Angeles, California allowed her to establish  Los Angeles Music Week, now in its eighth year.   Driven by the severe lack of parity in music education and the outcry of Los Angeles artists who work abroad yet seldom receive proper artistic recognition in their city of residence during their lifetime, Evans resolved to actively resolve these inequities.    Thus, “Los Angeles Music Week,”   an annual celebration designed to educate and appreciate all music,  fills a desperately needed niche in L.A.'s community outreach, while redeveloping the skills pool so vital for the maintenance of the vast entertainment industry.  This has garnered Evans the highest regard from all citizens and elected officials in the City and County of Los Angeles, in addition to those of other cities, who admire and support Evans’effervescent initiative, experience, artistry, talents, insight and  leadership. Supplementary Reference: LA Times Archives : "Instrument for Unity;  Singer's 'L.A. Music Week' Seeks to Bridge Racial Gaps" Monday, December 11, 1995; Home Edition, Metro Section, ID 0950112849 Byline: Ed Boyer, Times Staff Writer, total 598 words: "Blues belter Margie Evans is a big woman with a big sound and a big idea to use music to  help mend Los Angeles' tattered  social fabric. "