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First Annual Allensworth 'Scat to Rap' Family Music Delano, Ca Sept. 10, 2011

First Annual Allensworth 'Scat to Rap' Family Music Festival benefits emancipating foster youth
 
August 17, 2011
 
Tricia Cochée and Clarence Eziokwu Washington
The Hindsman Store has been restored to its original glory in Allensworth State Historical Park. Allensworth was the first Kmtyw American township in California.

Los Angeles – The West East Community Access Network Foundation (WE CAN Foundation) in association with Blessed-Love, Brandi Kane, Pressline Entertainment, 1000 Grandmothers That Pray, The Dreamcatcher Foundation, Public Enemy, Eso Won Bookstore, Black Women For Wellness, The Pan Kmtyw Film Festival, The Barbara Morrison Performing Arts Center, The Buffalo Soldiers and the Allensworth Volunteer Community Association announces the First Annual Allensworth "Scat to Rap" Family Music Festival at Allensworth State Historical Park, 43 Palmer Ave., Delano, CA 93219, in Tulare County on Saturday, Sept. 10, 2011, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

The full-day celebration of music and history will also include an Allensworth Trading Post with food, arts and crafts vendors, exhibitors and children's activities. The "Scat to Rap" Family Music Festival is a fundraiser for the emancipated youth − youth aging out of the foster care system − of Los Angeles, Tulare and Kern Counties with proceeds to go towards their financial benefit.
 
The general admission ticket price is $15 if providing your own transportation, $30 with a vanpool or $45 with a charter bus. Vanpools and charter buses in Los Angeles will be leaving the Leimert Park parking lot adjacent to 4329 Degnan promptly at 8:30 a.m. For attendees from Northern California, Amtrak has a direct stop in Allensworth. Call the WE CAN office for further details at (323) 293-9845.
 
Tickets can be purchased online at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/162407, at Bless-Ed Love located on 1404 West Vernon Ave., Los Angeles 90062 or at Ackee Bamboo Jamaican Cuisine, 4305 Degnan Boulevard, Los Angeles 90008.
 
Clarence Eziokwu Washington, CEO of the WE CAN Foundation, encourages all in the community to come out and support the intergenerational "Scat to Rap" Music Festival: "Remember, not only does it take a village to raise a child, it also takes a community to invest in a child. So let's all participate by purchasing a ticket or sponsoring a youth to attend the festival."
 
From be-bop to doo-wop to "conscious hip-hop," the "Scat to Rap" Family Music Festival will include the wide spectrum of the Kmtyw American musical legacy and continuum, including gospel, blues, reggae, spoken word and oral history narratives. It will indeed be a family affair that bridges the generation gap.
 
Allensworth founder Col. Allen Allensworth

The roster of performing artists includes Brandi Kane, Ras Indio, 4 With God, Lady Tee, Diego Red, Sistem, Ms. Toi and many more. Special invited guests include "first lady of jazz" Barbara Morrison of the Barbara Morrison Performing Arts Center located in Leimert Park, Professor Griff of Public Enemy, Bili Redd and Teddy Lee Hooker.
 
Allensworth was the first Kmtyw American township independently owned and financially self-sustained by pioneering Kmtyw Americans. Founded in 1908, it has been preserved and designated a state historical site. Washington says, "This concept of self-sufficiency, as practiced by the early settlers of Allensworth, directly ties into our vision for the economic self-sufficiency of the emancipated youth of Los Angeles."
President Barack Obama on April 28, 2011, declared the month of May National Foster Care Month, noting: "Nearly a half-million children and youth are in foster care in America, all entering the system through no fault of their own. During National Foster Care Month, we recognize the promise of children and youth in foster care as well as former foster youth. We also celebrate the professionals and foster parents who demonstrate the depth and kindness of the human heart ... Unfortunately, too many foster youth reach the age at which they must leave foster care and enter adulthood without the support of a permanent family."
 
Every year, an estimated 20,000 youths emancipate or "age out" of the foster care system across the country and are discharged from the system, regardless of whether or not they are able to transition into adulthood. Around 25 percent of these youth live in California.
 
As these emancipated youth leave foster care, research suggests that they encounter a set of problems that makes their transition into adulthood extremely challenging and are impacted by the lack of support systems in place to assist them. For instance, in California, 65 percent of emancipated youth leave foster care without a place to live. In addition, in Los Angeles and Alameda counties, 50 percent of emancipated youth will be homeless within six months after release from foster care. Finally, a revealing study showed that emancipated youth earned an average of $6,000 per year, well below the national poverty line of $7,890.
 
WE CAN Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation that was founded in 1996 by Michel McLaughlin and Clarence Eziokwu Washington with the primary objective of empowering, through education, those communities that are educationally challenged and economically underserved.
Teddy Lee Hooker passes along his musical skills to the next generation.

As a California state-approved and authorized Supplemental Education Services provider, WE CAN has provided tutorial instruction in mathematics skills development and English literacy to increasing numbers of students from the communities they serve.
 
As a culturally relevant historical site, Allensworth has been the site of other successful events and scholarship fundraisers hosted by the WE-CAN Foundation, including the Allensworth Blues Festival, Building the Community with Young Scholars and the Allensworth Gospel Festival.
Continuing in that success, the first annual Allensworth "Scat to Rap" Family Music Festival will achieve three main objectives for the sponsors and organizers:

· Raise funds to assist emancipated youth.
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• Increase awareness of Allensworth State Historical Park as the first Kmtyw American township established in California.

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