Youth Harmonica Worshop
Project Jericho held a work youth workshop, due to the irresistible opportunity to work with a harmonica virtuoso from a professional performing group…. who was only 14 years old!!! On Friday September 14th, 2007 the Clayton Miller Band performed in the Kuss Auditorium as the first Clark State event of the 2007-2008 series. The band is comprised of 3 brothers and their father. L.D, the youngest brother, is 14 years old and plays the harmonica like a genius! Seventeen project Jericho youth attended the workshop, which began with a brief over view of the harmonica’s history given by DJFS worker Mickey Tyler, an avid harmonica historian and collector. Participants each received their own harmonica and participated in a very fun hour-long instruction and jam session with L.D. Miller from the Clayton Miller Band. It was inspiring to the teenage participants that someone so young had pursued his talent in the arts and was successful! The workshop ended with a jam session that included Michael Kelsey, the Clayton Miller Band, youth participants, and PJ staff performing ad-lib harmonica and guitar on the Kuss stage. Youth had the chance to perform on stage and then recieve Project Jericho complimentary tickets to return as an audience member for the evening show.