HARPY EAGLE MUSIC FOUNDATION

Guyana will soon have its National School choir. The Ministry of Education through the Unit of Allied Arts has accepted the challenge of producing schools' choirs throughout Guyana's 10 regions. Mr Rohan Sagar Music Coordinator will coordinate activities along with other key resource persons Ms Rosamund Addo, Captain Robert Burns Band Master of the Guyana Defence Force, Mr Clyde Thierens, former Calypso Monarch, Music Educator and Academic and Mr Sean Bhola Singer/Songwriter and producer.

Mr Rohan Sagar an MA candidate with the Future Generations Graduate School, WV and founder of the Harpy Eagle Music Foundation was appointed as Music Coordinator with the Ministry of Education Guyana. Mr Sagar who has conducted many researches amongst the various ethnic/cultural groups across Guyana will work to promote Music in Schools all across Guyana and though while continuing his research will use this opportunity to reinforce the cultural values amongst the communities that he will interface.

The activities of the foundation centre on the promotion and preservation of indigenous and ethnic music and culture. Specifically the foundation

• Provide music training to students, teachers and special needs children in the instruments that are more common to each ethnic group;
• Raise awareness of the decline of the indigenous and ethnic music and cultures of Guyana;
• Support the implementation of community projects such as HIV/AIDS awareness, malaria and conservation through music;
• Advocates for music to be integrated into school curriculum;
• Preserving indigenous culture through recording and preserving documents and music;
• Conducting research on indigenous and ethnic music of Guyana