Jackson Rathbone Supports Little Kids Rock

While Budget Cuts Drain Lifeblood from Music Education, One Vampire Offers a Transfusion
“Twilight” saga actor and 100 Monkeys musician Jackson Rathbone joins honorary board of directors of charity, Little Kids Rock
LOS ANGELES, CA, June 27, 2011 — Actor and musician Jackson Rathbone is not OK with arts education programs being cut from public schools in his home of California and nationwide. That is why he is joining B.B. King, Slash, Bonnie Raitt, Ziggy Marley and several others on the Honorary Board of Directors of Little Kids Rock, a leading nonprofit provider of free musical instruments and teacher trainings to U.S. public schools.
Lauded for his role as Jasper Hale in the “Twilight” saga and currently on tour with his band, 100 Monkeys, Rathbone was looking for a way to give back to children who are not afforded the opportunities to pursue a career in the arts. That’s when he found Little Kids Rock.
“What an amazing organization this is,” he said of Little Kids Rock. “There are tons of children in inner city schools that never get a chance to experience a legitimate music education and I just don’t think that is right.”
Rathbone donated an autographed copy of the original “Twilight” script to the organization to auction.

Source: Twilightish