about us
The Mark Wood Music Foundation dba (Electrify Your Music) is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) charitable organization that exists to empower, inspire and electrify promising student musicians at schools with underserved music education programs and student musicians in need of scholarship opportunities and vehicles for self-expression.
Changing children’s lives by inspiring creative, innovative, and confident thinking; connecting imagination and intellect through the power of music.
Our goal is to give young people the opportunity to function at maximum creative capacity in all aspects of their lives.
doesn’t every kid deserve the chance to be a rock star?
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our vision
Imagine taking your car to a mechanic, who pops open the hood and finds only half an engine. This is what’s happening to children who are not being taught to activate the non-academic side of their brain. Creative thinking skills that are developed through music and the arts enable our children to function in the world at their fullest capacity, ensuring that the whole brain is nurtured. Peer-reviewed medical journals say that neuroscientists, psychologists, and educators feel that nurturing the right hemisphere of the brain is exactly what is needed to supplement left-brained curriculum, and that creative thinking is a direct outgrowth of the skills acquired from music and the arts. (Visit our Music Education Facts area for a link to a great article exploring this subject.)
International recording artist, electric violinist, and music education advocate Mark Wood, along with his partner and wife Laura Kaye, personally travels to cities and schools across the nation to jolt motivation in young musicians, inspiring them to continue in their musical pursuits as well as elevating their self-image and self-esteem, all while augmenting student, parent, teacher and community interest in each school’s music department. Though Mark Wood has been successful in many areas in his life, his primary passion is and always will be music education.
We want students to be able to follow their dreams and connect with their own unique creative gifts! By offering music scholarships, instruments, and other avenues of creative expression, we can give talented young musicians the opportunity to continue their musical pursuits and grow as creative individuals.
our goals
To bring Mark’s Electrify Your Strings! (EYS) music education program for orchestra, band, and choir to schools and communities that aren’t able to afford the program
To grant scholarships to students and educators to attend the prestigious week-long Mark Wood Rock Orchestra Camp and Music Festival (MWROC) every summer.
To bring in guest artists and faculty to MWROC to enhance campers’ experiences
To provide instruments to music departments and deserving student musicians
