Name: BBC interview by MIMA Music
Duration: 8 min 14 s
Description: BBC Leicester presents a wonderful story about the MIMA program in Leicester, UK, sponsored by the US Embassy in London and the US Department of State Educational and Cultural Affairs.

Original song created by the students of Lafayette School in the spring of 2024 under the instruction of MIMA Teaching Artists Eli Cook and Brian Tafazoli. Recorded at the Music Resource Center in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Godzilla's Gonna Get You!

Original song created by the students of Lafayette School in the spring of 2024 under the instruction of MIMA Teaching Artists Eli Cook and Bernard Hankins. Recorded at the Music Resource Center in Charlottesville, Virginia.

This program was made possible by a grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts.

I Don't Wanna Go To School

Recorded in May 2024 at the Music Resource Center as part of the On the Spot Improv workshop—a collaboration between the MRC and MIMA Music led by teaching artists Baldwin Cespedes and Jordan Perry.

MRC X MIMA On The Spot Improv Jam

Original song created by the students of Lafayette School in the fall of 2024 under the instruction of MIMA Teaching Artists Eli Cook and Bernard Hankins. Recorded at the Music Resource Center in Charlottesville, Virginia.

This program was made possible by a grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts.

MIMA-Peanutbutter Brittle on the Griddle

Original song created by the students of Lugo-McGuiness Academy Schools in the fall of 2024 under the instruction of MIMA Teaching Artists Eli Cook and Bernard Hankins. Recorded at the Music Resource Center in Charlottesville, Virginia.

This program was made possible by a grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts.

MIMA-I'm Serious

Original song created by the students of in the fall of 2024 under the instruction of MIMA Teaching Artists Eli Cook and Bernard Hankins. Recorded at the Music Resource Center in Charlottesville, Virginia.

This program was made possible by a grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts.

MIMA-M-I-M-A!

Original song created by the students of Skyline MS School in the fall of 2024 under the instruction of MIMA Teaching Artists Rachel Tan and "Sunny" Charles. 

This program was made possible by a grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts.

Skyline-Christmas Song

Original song created by the students during the Starr Hill Pathways summer camp @ UVA under the instruction of MIMA Teaching Artists Eli Cook and Bernard Hankins. Recorded at the Rap Lab @ UVA in Charlottesville, Virginia.

This program was made possible by a grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts.

Queens Dreams

Original song created by the students of the 6th Street Neighborhood in the spring of 2025 under the instruction of MIMA Teaching Artists Susan Munson and Bernard Hankins. Recorded at the Music Resource Center in Charlottesville, Virginia.

This program was made possible by a grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts.

6th Street Where Y'all At?

Original song created by the students of Lafayette School in the spring of 2025 under the instruction of MIMA Teaching Artists Brian Tafazoli and Bernard Hankins. Recorded at the Music Resource Center in Charlottesville, Virginia.

This program was made possible by a grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts.

LOL-The Ballad of Lafayette

BBC Leicester presents a wonderful story about the MIMA program in Leicester, UK, sponsored by the US Embassy in London and the US Department of State Educational and Cultural Affairs. 

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