Every Saturday | 4 PM
The Great Shape Band (project)
We don’t just teach kids how to play music. We teach them what to do with it.
Young musicians growing through music while helping children overcome poverty, violence, and illiteracy.
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About Us
Here Music Becomes Mission
We connect young musicians here with vulnerable children in Brazil — using music to build character on one side and create opportunity on the other.
Play for Someone
Help keep a child in school, put food on the table, and place an instrument in their hands.
Become a Great Musician
Learn your instrument. Practice. Make mistakes. Try again. Become resilient. Become confident. Discover what you are capable of.
Mission There Becomes Music
Keep a child in school. Put food on the table. Put an instrument in their hands.
Give them a reason to believe in tomorrow.
Riquelme
Music Director
Yamazaki
Rhythm Director
Paulo V
Vocal Coach
Alyce
Sponsored by Siqueiras
Yuri
Rhythm Director
Max
Vocal Coach
John
Music Director
Rafa
Tour Manager
Frequently Asked Questions
What’s the big idea here?
Make a one-year commitment to help keep one child in school, fed, and learning music. And let our children follow that child’s story.
what is Your Music Project?
Our music project begins with a very simple idea: This is our children’s band — The Great Shape Band. And as musicians, they have a mission that goes far beyond learning how to play well: to use music to help children overcome poverty, violence, and illiteracy.
Our project in Brazil follows the same principle: This is our social project too.
When we connect these two things — music here and mission there — real change begins to happen. And today, we already have real stories of children whose lives are being transformed.
The Role of Our Children?
As parents, we have an enormous responsibility: to prepare our children to face a world that will not always be easy.
We want them to be strong. Resilient. Courageous. They need to become monsters. First, a monster on their instrument: to study, practice, fail, try again, and discover what they are capable of becoming.
But there is a second step that matters even more: Use what they have achieved as musicians to make a difference in someone else’s life. We don’t simply want to develop good musicians. We want to develop great human beings. Great Musicians
Where We, as Parents, Come In?
Before asking our children to make a difference in the world, we need to show them what that looks like. Today, it costs $100 per month to keep one child in our program in Brazil:
$60 — School tuition
$20 — Food/basic groceries
$20 — Music program
We want 12 children being sponsored every Year. Some people fully sponsor one child. Others sponsor two. In some cases, two or more families come together to support one child.
That is why there is no contribution too small. You tell us what your family can contribute.
If you can commit to the full $100 per month, perfect. If not, we can find another family to walk alongside yours.
What’s the Big Idea Here?
Every Saturday, we open the doors of our music club to teenagers who want to become part of The Great Shape Band and prepare for our annual benefit concert, Songs in the Key of Life.
It’s free to join. But it will cost you everything you’ve got.
Your time.
Your practice.
Your passion.
Your discipline.
Your willingness to fail, get better, and show up again next Saturday.
We ask something of the parents, too.
While your child is learning music here, your family helps another child stay in school at Escola Pequena Luz in Brazil.
Your donation helps provide education, food, and music to a child growing up in a vulnerable community.
So everyone has a part to play.
The musician gives their commitment.
The family gives an opportunity.
And another child gets a chance.
Then, once a year, we bring it all together on one stage.
Songs in the Key of Life isn’t just our annual concert. It’s the moment our young musicians get to use everything they’ve learned for someone else.
That’s the big idea:
Learn something.
Become good at it.
Then use it to change somebody else’s life.
Music Here. Mission There.
Love. Grace. Music.
Qual é a grande ideia por trás disso?
Todos os sábados, abrimos as portas do nosso clube de música para adolescentes que querem fazer parte da The Great Shape Band e se preparar para o nosso concerto beneficente anual, Songs in the Key of Life.
Participar é de graça. Mas vai custar tudo o que você tem.
Seu tempo.
Sua prática.
Sua paixão.
Sua disciplina.
Sua disposição para errar, melhorar e voltar no próximo sábado.
E também pedimos algo aos pais.
Enquanto seu filho aprende música aqui, sua família ajuda outra criança a permanecer na Escola Pequena Luz, no Brasil.
Sua contribuição ajuda a proporcionar educação, alimentação e música a uma criança que cresce em uma comunidade vulnerável.
Assim, todos têm uma parte a cumprir.
O músico oferece seu compromisso.
A família oferece uma oportunidade.
E outra criança ganha uma chance.
Então, uma vez por ano, juntamos tudo isso em um único palco.
Songs in the Key of Life não é apenas o nosso concerto anual. É o momento em que nossos jovens músicos usam tudo o que aprenderam em benefício de outra pessoa.
Essa é a grande ideia:
Aprenda algo.
Torne-se realmente bom nisso.
Depois, use o que aprendeu para mudar a vida de alguém.
Música aqui. Missão lá.
Amor. Graça. Música.
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