Read about Tony’s visit and see the photos!
http://www.scodwellusa.com/tony-visits-amend-music-in-spokane-wa/
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About Agwa Taka
The Journey of Life
In many ways Agwa Taka is an average Spokanite. But that’s only half the story
March 12, 2013
By Leah Sottile
Copied from inlander.com: Read the original here
By all rights, Agwa Taka should be dead.
If starvation didn’t get him as a kid in Ethiopia, then disease, three wars, childhood slavery and a year in a hellhole prison certainly should have done the job.
But here he is, up at 1:30 every morning, drinking a cup of coffee, the snow melting outside his kitchen window and cars passing in the distance on Grand Boulevard. Agwa (“AWG-wah”) listens to the news on the radio. He pets his dog Rosco, filling his bowl with kibble as the mutt looks back at him with a tonguey grin. He pulls on a pair of jeans, hiking boots and a polo shirt. Continue reading “About Agwa Taka”
Music in Africa
African children playing instruments that were donated by Amend Music Center and distributed by Agwa Taka.
Amend Music Center Celebrates 30 Years
Thu., Nov. 4, 2010
By Sherry Kenady
sherrykenady@gmail.com
In 1980 Robin and Debbie Amend opened Amend Music Center with a basic goal of wanting to help people play music.
It was a tough year. A few months after they opened, Mount St. Helen’s erupted. “Nobody was out in Spokane during the clean up. No one could even drive. We were just barely getting started,” Robin Amend said. “I don’t know how we even made it,” his wife Debbie Amend added.
2010 Pepsi Refresh Project
New instruments brought to Lewis and Clark High School through the Pepsi Refresh Project on May 26, 2010!