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John Lennon Bus will be open for tours Friday

Kevin Smith - AZ Daily Star

Tucson, Arizona | Published: 02.19.2009

The Arizona Daily Star’s Battle of the Bands is one of several such competitions across the country sponsored by the John Lennon Songwriting Contest.
The big prize for the winning band is a recording session on the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus, a state-of-the-art studio on wheels.
You can check out the technological wonders of the bus before the battle begins on Friday. Free tours will be offered from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in the parking lot of the Rialto.
In addition to stopping by the various battles, the bus tours year-round, visiting high schools, community centers, conferences, festivals and tours with diverse headliners from Black Eyed Peas to Tim McGraw.
Here are some by-the-numbers facts about the bus and the battles, including our own:

11 — Years the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus has been up and running.
6 — Years the bus has been involved in Battle of the Bands programs.
4 — States with the longest-running Battle events: Arizona, Michigan, Oklahoma and Utah. Other areas where the Battles rage are (or have been) California, New Jersey, Florida and North Carolina.
3 — Different studio environments provided on the bus.
6 — Years the Star has presented Battle of the Bands in Tucson.
33 — Finalists in the Star’s Battle of the Bands since 2003.

Find more info at lennonbus.org

Something like this should be parked outside of every school in America.

- Vernon Reid, Living Colour

The Headlines

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    The Bus is on the Vans Warped Tour this summer! We're producing new songs and videos with the awesome bands on the tour and working with non-profits like Feed Our Children Now. Each morning before the gates open we pick one group of lucky attendees to jump the line and get personally escorted into the show so get there early and look for us! Subscribe to our Youtube channel to catch the latest videos and our Facebook page for a peek backstage with your favorite bands.

  • Gibson Foundation’s “Night Out for Nashville”

    The Bus visited the Hard Rock Café in Nashville for public tours and silent auction of an Epiphone guitar signed by the Black Eyed Peas to raise money for flood victims in the Nashville area. Donation boxes made from Gibson guitar cases were placed at Nashville businesses and venues. To find out how you can help, visit www.gibsonfoundation.org

  • The 70th Celebration

    This year will be John's 70th birthday. The celebration will be a worldwide event. Very soon we will announce how you can be a part of it. Keep checking back here for info. Imagine Peace!

Video aboard the Bus

The increasing accessibility of digital technology has led to an amazing expansion of opportunity in the art of digital storytelling. The John Lennon Educational Tour Bus has been at the forefront of this new media explosion, having produced daily video projects with students since January of 2001. The Lennon Bus puts state-of-the-art digital video equipment into the hands of workshop participants and teaches the entire digital workflow from story-boarding to DVD burning. Students leave the experience having shot, chopped, scored, and (most importantly) finished an entire digital video production. Using the latest cameras and professional hardware/software solutions including Apple's Final Cut Studio and Bogen Imaging's complete line of grip equipment, tripods, filters, and accessories, participants are exposed to the exciting world of digital videography and learn hot techniques of the trade. The accessibility of professional-quality technology is making it possible for millions of new voices to be heard and the John Lennon Bus is putting these tools into the hands of tomorrow's great digital producers.