Photo Op: Glen Iris Students Will Show Off Their Hard-Earned Guitar Skills Through Alys Stephens Center Program

Glen Iris students who are participants in the Alys Stephens Center’s Robert Redus School of Guitar will perform live for their fourth- and fifth-grade classmates. The “mini” concert event will feature the six students who have been learning to play guitar free of charge throughout the school year through the program; they will perform a variety of songsm including “Stand by Me” and “When the Saints Go Marching In.”

May 10, 2010

BIRMINGHAM, Ala - Glen Iris students who are participants in the Alys Stephens Center's Robert Redus School of Guitar will perform live for their fourth- and fifth-grade classmates. The "mini" concert event will feature the six students who have been learning to play guitar free of charge throughout the school year through the program; they will perform a variety of songsm including "Stand by Me" and "When the Saints Go Marching In." This year-long program offers six students the chance to study guitar with a university-level instructor. At the end of the school year, the students will have the chance to keep their guitars based on their commitment to lessons, practice, responsibility and volunteerism.

The event will start at 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 11 at Glen Iris Elementary School, 1115 11th St. South, Birmingham, 205-231-7440.

The Robert Redus School of Guitar is a pilot program for the new Alys Stephens Center Arts and Education Program funded by Jane Stephens Comer and partially funded by the Robert Redus Foundation. The program was born from a vision of friends and family of the late Robert Clark Redus IV to spread his gift of music. UAB's Alys Stephens Center will have this program again next year with the hope of expanding to another school.