'Money 4 Music' Benefits Music Department

By Erin Gassner

WDEZ 101.9 radio station is once again supporting local high school music programs this year through their second annual ‘Money 4 Music’ program.

Due to hundreds of dollars being cut from arts programs throughout the state, the station decided to try to keep music programs alive in Central Wisconsin by handing out $13,000 in cash to deserving high school music programs.

Here is how ‘Money 4 Music’ works: for 8 weeks, all participating high schools will be listed on the WDEZ website. Anyone can go online and vote for their favorite school once per day. The schools can earn bonus points by submitting videos and listening for the bonus song every day, when votes count for 100 points.

Newman Catholic students have already been hard at work texting friends and relatives about the contest and posting links to the WDEZ website and to Facebook and Twitter. They have also brainstormed lots of ideas for making videos to upload for bonus points, which include everything from dressing up as nuns to recording pep band tunes.

All Newman Catholic students, staff, alumni, and friends can go to http://www.wdez.com/ to vote for Newman Catholic’s music program!