The John Lennon Education Tour Bus

From the Blog

• Learn About It, Guitar! On board the Lennon Bus, we get a lot of visitors who want to learn to play the guitar.  As the most popular instrument in the world, that’s not a surprise.  To get you started, we teamed with NAMM and Epiphone to bring you this short video.  Start practicing!   …
• Five String Basses Bais Five string basses ORGIN STORY I play bass quite a bit and it is one of those instruments that fell into my lap. Everyone seemed to always need a bassist and I had always had wanted to play in whatever band that I could. The first bass that I ever …
• Poem for SXSW From top left: Cruisin’ USA, Lissy Truillie ,  Rachael Sage, Birds of Chiacgo, Wheeler Brothers We made it through SXSW today Live streaming and recording everyday Todocast folk helped beam signals around Live streams from everyday can now be found On our website It was all right So do go …
• THE FUTURE: Part 1: Introducing: The Firebird X 1. Preconceived notions are tricky beasts that play dangerous games with your judgment, on the bus or off the bus. Off the bus, that would be an entire other story of value judgments, critiques and a book length idea about making decisions. 2. This is a blog post 2.a. (Ceci …
• A Delay and Waylay That Wa LA: SAE & McDSP Like that, like some strange flash, we were gone from Southern California. We had been there for a full month, we rarely spend such an amount of time in one area but it was the start of the year, the landscape of the southern part of the state is expanse …

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• Requesting the Lennon Bus!

  For the entire month of October, the Lennon Bus will be visiting schools and community centers who have made a request by visiting www.lennonbus.org/request! If you want the Bus to come to you, be sure to make an official request! Please note, the Lennon Bus keeps requests on file for 3 years, so if the Bus can't make it to you this time around, no need to worry!

• Lennon Bus Students Attend LEAD Symposium on Technology in Education

  Two Sequoia High School students had the unique opportunity to interview education, technology and policy leaders about the future of education. To read more about their experience, click here!

• The Lennon Bus and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan Join Forces For Select Dates

  The John Lennon Educational Tour Bus has teamed up with the U.S. Department of Education and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan for their third annual “Education Drives America” back-to-school bus tour.

• Lennon Bus Students Create Original Game Apps!

  The Lennon Bus is promoting new app and game development through Game Jams organized with the Learning Games Network. Students work to create interactive iPad experiences that promote peace and global sustainability. Watch the video here. As a partner with Create UNAOC 2012, The Lennon Bus is working to encourage new kinds of conversations through digital media.

• The Black Eyed Peas

  The Black Eyed Peas are one of the best selling groups to date having sold over 56 million albums worldwide! Check out this exclusive story on the Peas and read about the Lennon Bus' involvement in some of their smash hits here.!