TEENS UNITED LIVE

TEENS UNITED LIVE was founded to ensure that opportunities for musical education are not sacrificed due to financial hardship. TEENS UNITED LIVE has brought together musicians from schools across Los Angeles to help music programs in need. 

TEENS UNITED LIVE was born when Bella Porter, Taylor Mackall, Alec Singer and Sol Was, then 9th graders at Crossroads School in Santa Monica, learned the funding for the Foshay Learning Center's Music Program had been eliminated.  Porter, Mackall, Singer and Was decided to use their own musical talents to raise money for their peers.  Gathering friends from schools all over the area, the four organized their first Teens United Live Benefit at the Roxy in February of 2012. The sold-out show garnered $20,000 for Foshay Music. In 2013, TEENS UNITED LIVE earmarked its proceeds to the wonderful Harmony Project in Los Angeles, an organization that brings music to urban areas, giving kids opportunities to play in jazz ensembles and orchestras.