seven mile
Sam was the founder and the first Executive Director of Seven Mile Music. A volunteer organization within the University of Michigan, Seven Mile Music is a large and growing group of committed U of M student-members who make five weekly trips to Detroit to teach elementary and junior high school students in low-income areas of the city. Seven Mile Music provides lessons in instrumental music, computer programming, children’s choir, and art and creative writing to more than 150 children each week.
seven mile
Seven Mile was the subject of an award-winning 2015 documentary produced by film students at the University of Michigan entitled “The Key of B”.
For more information, please visit the Seven Mile Music website.
in the news
Person of the week, 7 Action News – Detroit, (March 31, 2017)
9 College Students Doing Amazing Things (The Brief, May 31, 2016)
Seven Mile Music Inspires Disadvantaged Motown Kids (Huffington Post, May 17, 2016)
There is hope here: Seven Mile Music illuminates Brightmoor (The Michigan Daily, B-SIDE, October 22, 2015)
Bringing music education back to Detroit’s kids (The Michigan Daily, March 31, 2015)