The John Lennon Education Tour Bus

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John Lennon bus at Guitar Center on Saturday…

Jim Abbot - Orlando Sentinel


The John Lennon Educational Tour Bus, the non-profit mobile recording and multi-media studio that has been out on the road for about a dozen years now, will be stopping Saturday, May 30, at the Guitar Center at Winter Park Village. There will be public tours from noon to 5 p.m. I’ve seen this bus bunches of times, but somehow never made it on board. Maybe this will be the weekend to cross that off the list! Anyone else been on board?

JOHN LENNON EDUCATIONAL TOUR BUS VISITS
GUITAR CENTER, WINTER PARK SATURDAY, MAY 30th!

State-of-the-Art Non-Profit Mobile Recording & Multimedia Studio Gives FREE Public Tours, Raffles and Giveaways

WHAT:                The John Lennon Educational Tour Bus, a non-profit mobile recording and multimedia studio, will host FREE public tours at Guitar Center Winter Park. Visitors can check out the one-of-a-kind Lennon Bus where the Black Eyed Peas, Fergie, Mos Def, The Pussycat Dolls—and more!—have laid tracks – AND register to win FREE gear from Godin Guitars, Mackie, Roland and Boss!

Now in its 12th year, the Lennon Bus is a non-profit state-of the art mobile audio and video recording studio that provides young people – many times kids at risk—across the country and Canada with free hands on opportunities to create music, video and still photo projects. The state-of-the-art facility features the latest technology, including Apple audio and video solutions, as well as the latest traditional musical instruments.  The three on-board engineers introduce visitors to the studios, explaining and demonstrating music and video production, introducing an array of possible opportunities within the music and multimedia industries – one of the few growing industries in today’s tough economy. The Bus is partnered with Digital Media Academy, which is giving courses in everything you’ll see on board the Bus for kids, teens and parents, at universities around the country this summer. For more information on the courses and a chance to win an all expense paid trip to DMA and other great prizes, go to http://www.digitalmediaacademy.org.

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

- Vernon Reid, Living Colour

The Headlines

  • Stanford University “Game Day”

    The Bus will lead its 2nd "Game Day" with Learning Games Network at Stanford University from Feb 11-13, bringing high school students together to develop an iOS app with Stanford undergrads and the JLETB engineers. The Bus will be open to the Stanford community from noon-4pm on Feb 13.

  • Live with Bootsy at NAMM

    Friday night at NAMM the Lennon Bus hosted an event to commemorate the launch of the 2012 tour, capped off with a funktastic performance by Bootsy Collins and Verdine White. The Bus produced a live webstream of the event using our new TriCaster 850 Extreme and TodoCast satellite connection; if you missed it live you can still catch it on the DVR here: lennonbus.org/live. Stay tuned for future live events, happening regularly!

  • JLETB’s 15th Year Anniversary

    The JLETB kicked-off its 15th year of bringing music education to students nationwide, with a special birthday party at the 2012 NAMM Show. The Bus unveiled a new arsenal of equipment for the 2012 year, including Avid® Pro Tools®|HDX, and live streaming capabilities made possible by NewTek and TodoCast that will allow the whole party to be seen live via www.lennonbus.org. Learn more here.

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 storyboarding to web publication and 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 Avid Media Composer and Pro Tools, 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. Subscribe to our Youtube channel so you never miss any of the amazing videos produced on the Lennon Bus.