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Check out Detroit Youth Volume at events the events list below! There is also a form to fill out if you'd like to request a performance at one of your events.

Our music helps celebrate youth, culture & community-building. We especially love to put our youth in concert with local musicians of color. Paid performances are an earned-income strategy for the non-profit; all proceeds go into our scholarship fund. Donated performances may be provided for events that align with our mission if performance honorariums are unavailable.

This is who we are:

​DYV teaches youth ages 3-18 to play violin using the world-class Suzuki method & social justice pedagogies to nurture students' creativity, perseverance, collaborative skills & empathy for others.
 
Both as a community of people and a non-profit, we strive to function as an anti-racist, pro-Black organization through our practices inside and outside of the classroom. 

​Collaborations with local artists as guest instructors develop positive cultural identities in our students as Detroiters and as youth of color (applicable to 70% of our kids). Check out our Special Projects from past years resulting in albums celebrating hip hop, jazz, techno, and Detroit Voices.

Since 2010, DYV has made quality arts education free & accessible to low-income families, especially youth from Capuchin Soup Kitchen. Paying and scholarship students alike receive the same excellent music education.

​2020 PERFORMANCE CALENDAR

February 29 - Interactive improv workshop at Hamtramck Music Festival at Delite Cafe

2019 PERFORMANCE CALENDAR

December 8 - 2-2:30pm Winterfest at Palmer Park in the log cabin WSG beatboxer Stevie Soul. DYV's oldest student Ashanti Norwood is playing her own set!

​June 21 - OrchKids Jam Session at Detroit Shipping Co

June 17 - Detroit Institute of Art annual volunteers' meeting at Grosse Point War Memorial 

May 11 - DETROIT VOICES Album Performance & Live Recording at Main Branch Detroit Public Library, Children's Library.   ​

March 23 - Solo Recital & DYV Classrooms Open House at Cathedral Church of St Paul 

March 9 - The Bestest Concert Ever at Royal Oak Farmers Market hosted by the Royal Oak Optimist Club

March 9 - Detroit Collaborative Soundbath at Charles Wright Museum of African American History

February 3 - DYV-hosts an Every Child Can! Course for parents and prospective Suzuki teachers

January 30 - "Creating Community Engagement that Sustains" session co-presentation by DYV Director at El Sistema Symposium & performance by students

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2018 PERFORMANCE CALENDAR

December 15 - Family Fun Day benefit for DYV presented by Mommimosa LLC.

December 9 - Winterfest in Palmer Park

December 8 - Makers Market at Ponyride

November 30 - Red Shoe Company collaborative show & benefit at First United Methodist Church in Ann Arbor.

June 27 - Year-end show culminating our electric violin / MPC workshop series at Trinosophes.

June 16  - Let's Make Electronic Music! workshop at Allied Media Conference at Wayne State University

May 27 - DYV presents on panel "Access and Equity in the Suzuki Community: Strategies for Successful Engagement" at the Suzuki Biennial Conference 

March 25 - Solo Recital at Allesee Hall in Detroit Symphony Orchestra building

March 4 - Electronic music-making workshop at Hamtramck Public Library for Hamtramck Music Festival.

February 15 - DYV community strategy meeting at the DSO. Thursday night Group Class performs at 6pm. 

2017 ​PERFORMANCE CALENDAR

December 10 - Palmer Park Winterfest performance in the log cabin.

November 18 - 2-4pm Violin Art Auction & Holiday Party at Holding House 
August 26 - 12:30pm Detroit LIVE a free community block party celebrating music, art, food and community at Heidelberg Project  from 12-8pm. 3600 Heidelberg St in Detroit.

August 7 - 5pm Urban Stringz camp recital at Red Dunn Kitchen 1331 Trumbull St Ste 100, Detroit, Michigan 48216. Food Available for purchase.

August 4 - 3:30pm PheonixPhest Grande Jazz Camp recital at Eastern Michigan University

July 22 - 4pm Crash Detroit marching band festival at Lincoln Street Art Park 5926 Lincoln St, Detroit, MI 48208. We are following Gabriel Brass Band! Entire event runs 2-8pm at the park + 8-midnight at Marble Bar. 

July 22 - 1:15pm Beacon Park Family Day performance celebrating a new downtown Detroit park at 1903 Grand River, corner of Cass Ave. Youth performances, interactive art activities, pop-up retail vendors, and games. Event is 12-6pm. FREE and open to all!

July 21 - 1pm 1967 Uprising 50th Anniversary at Gordon Park 9125 Rosa Parks Boulevard. Event presented by Brothers Always Together.

June 19 - Jazz Violin "The Detroit Way" at N'Namdi Gallery
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April 9 - DYV Solo Recital in Allesee Hall 
March 18 - DYV cookbook release party 3-5pm Meldrum Soup Kitchen 
February 12 - Dilla Youth Day performance during Youth Showcase. Chalres H Wright Museum of African American History
January 29 - Palmer Park WinterFest & Doggie Fashion Parade. Performance between 2 and 3pm in heated tent. 

2016 ​PERFORMANCE CALENDAR

December 10 - Ceramics, Prints & Violins tea party fundraiser for DYV at Holding House

December 3 - Super Solstice Show for Noel Night at Cass Commons 

November 27 - Kids Day at Third Wave Music grand opening

November 17 - Lower East Side Community Grant Program networking event at MASH Detroit

September - pitch session for Catapult

September - pitch session for My Brother's Keeper

September 19 - Sterling Toles album release at Paramita Sound

August 31 - Detroit SOUP at Belle Isle Cricket Field 

August 13 - Detroit Youth Volume album release party at MOCAD

June 18 - Allied Media Conference, soothing strings for Orlando Healing Circle

June 3 - End of year gathering for parents, teachers and students at Sound House for Picture Day, surveys & potluck
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May 21 - Hip Hop Violin Album promo event at Third Man Records

February 7th - Dilla Youth Day hosted by The Foundation at Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History 

February 27 - Detroit BOLD Presents: In the Spirit of Sadie Hawkins at Eastern Market 

2015 ​PERFORMANCE CALENDAR

August 21 - DYV Fundraiser Altered Violin Art Auction at Holding House Detroit 

August 22 - Temple of I AM 8th Annual Community Health Fair

September 12 - Eastern Market busking and text vote promotion

September 13 - Feedom Freedom Growers Free Concert against eviction foreclosures to support Lela Whitfield
         
October 16 - Suzuki violin Play-in and Potluck for friends & family at St Charles Parish

October 21 - Young Artist Award Wayne County Council for Arts, History & Humanities awards ceremony

November 18 - featured performers at Classical Revolution Detroit with CutTime Simfonica at St CeCe's

December 12 - Teatro del Niños collaborative performance with Sterling Toles at Mexicantown Mercado
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