This is our gift to Detroit. Youth violinists from Detroit Youth Volume released their debut album in August 2016. After winning over $20k from Knight Arts & a People's Choice Award, they professionally recorded masterpieces integrating internationally-loved Suzuki violin repertoire with hip hop beats from world-class, locally-loved artists Sterling Toles, Stevie Soul & Nick Speed. At the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, while wearing fabulous outfits individually made for each performer, the youth violinists & their hip hop mentors unveiled collaborative jams to celebrate, reflect and further what’s happening, and what’s been happening, in the City of Detroit.
In November 2015, DYV won a Knight Arts Challenge Detroit matching grant of $22k. The match was raised with support from Lower East Side Community Grant Program, Capuchin Soup Kitchen, Park West Foundation & over 100 individual donors who donated during our kickstarter campaign.
In November 2015, DYV won a Knight Arts Challenge Detroit matching grant of $22k. The match was raised with support from Lower East Side Community Grant Program, Capuchin Soup Kitchen, Park West Foundation & over 100 individual donors who donated during our kickstarter campaign.
Teaching Artists 2016
Sterling Toles (beats)
Stevie Soul (beatboxing)
Nick Speed (beats)
Tunde Olaniran (stage presence)
Larry Gabriel (banjo)
Yuri Popowycz (violin)
Pierre Anthony (spoken word)
Stevie Soul (beatboxing)
Nick Speed (beats)
Tunde Olaniran (stage presence)
Larry Gabriel (banjo)
Yuri Popowycz (violin)
Pierre Anthony (spoken word)
You can help continue making quality arts accessible to low-income youth.
Donate to DYV and get our album as a token of graditude!
