The John Lennon Education Tour Bus

From the Blog

• Ice Skate Epic Home to the headquarters of the Continental Army during the American Revolution, the town of Newburgh, NY is rich in American Cultural Heritage. As such, when the Lennon Bus stopped here on its off day, we three members set out on a wonderfully inconsequential exploration of not only the town, …
• Je Ne Sais Rien Living on the road, I am in perpetual motion.  I move from city to city, state to state, east coast to west coast and back again.  Virtually every day, I wake up in a different location, a different time zone.  However, even though I am rarely stationary, it is easy …
• The Art and Soul of Mixing Mixing, or as post production guys call it re-recording, is the art of taking recorded instruments and creating a sort of soundscape. Now by soundscape I mean using the tools you have to “paint with sound.” Think of it like a photograph… You have some things that are right up …
• Beyonce couldn’t Imagine her life without Music in Schools. Beyonce said she couldn’t imagine her life if she didn’t have a music program in her school. I once said I couldn’t imagine my life if Beyonce wasn’t in it. To think that Beyonce may have never been given the chance in her school to learn and perform music is …
• Le Monde Tourne Out on the Vans Warped Tour, life moves pretty fast.  So fast, in fact, that at times, one can feel as though he or she is just constantly spinning.  Spinning through days, weeks, and even months, as time and cities move past until they are nothing but a distant memory.  …

The Headlines

• Warped Tour

  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!

• Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival

  The Bus will make its next appearance at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, TN. The lineup is amazing so come enjoy the show and be sure to find the Lennon Bus; we'll be out in the crowd, showing off our Gibson guitars.

• US Dept of Education Secretary Arne Duncan On Board the JLETB for Wanna Play Music Week

  Arne Duncan visited the Lennon Bus in DC for an event focused on music education. Students from the Duke Ellington School of the Arts performed along with the Robinson Secondary School Guitar Orchestra. Read more about it at NAMM.org or view our image gallery