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Song Book World is an interdisciplinary arts program that operates a nonprofit record label.
We are recording our own versions of great pop songs from the past 100 years and developing new material with people of all ages from our region in collaboration with people from other regions & cultures across the globe.
Our focus is to produce pieces that have long-lasting value. Our mission is to build models of cooperation in the world.
- pop songs from the past 100 years - people of all ages in collaboration
Joshua Stone's music for film & television has been broadcast throughout the world.
Mr. Stone’s clients include: 20th Century Fox, The Smithsonian Institution, CBS News, MTV Networks, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, A&E Biography, The White House, HBO, Discovery, MoMA, Independence Hall…
He is a Teaching Artist registered with the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism. A recipient of the CCT Artist Fellowship Award, Mr. Stone’s projects have been funded by the Arts Fund for Region One, the FVCT, the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Merits include: NATAS (regional) Emmy Award, American Film Institute Award, New York Film Festival, Prix Jeunesse, Cine Golden Eagle, Ohio State Award, Chris Award, Du Film Pour L'Art, Ollie Award.
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Collaborators (February 2014)
- organizations and individuals discussing, developing or participating in
program activities with SBW
Housatonic Youth Services Bureau
Salisbury Central School Jazz Band – Rob Nellson
Geer Village – Canaan, CT
D.M. Hunt Memorial Library (toddler program)- Falls Village, CT
Ethnomusicologist, Junko Oba – Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
Lee H. Kellogg School Music Program – Brook Martinez
HVRHS Music Program – Tom Krupa
Judy Dansker – Oboe & Piano/Simon’s Rock of Bard College
Christine Gevert – Music Director/Trinity Church & Founder/Les Ingales
Sister Jo-Ann Ionnatti - Art & Spirituality Coordinator/Wisdom House
Adam Segulah Sher - Director/Isabella Freedman Retreat Center
Bob Altman - Founding Board Member/reachtheworld.org
Stephen Rwangyezi - Founder & Director/Ndere Troupe, Uganda
Downstream Media – Television Production Services – Boston, MA
HSF Studios – Music Production Services – Los Angeles, CA
Site Listing - Idealist.org
CT Office of Culture & Tourism
Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation – Martha Boschen Porter Fund (grant awarded)
NW CT Arts Council – SBW Fiscal Sponsorship
Community Foundation of Northwest Connecticut- (grant proposal submitted 1-14)