Some Lima City School students are feeling the blues this week as a familiar face comes back to the classroom.
Blues artist Geneva Red teaching 8th graders at Liberty Arts Magnet to play the harmonica and sing the blues. Red says she loves working with the students and opening their eyes to a genre of music they aren't familiar with.
"We've been doing Blues in the Schools and yes it's actually fun, we've been learning how to play the harmonica and sing with like Blues style which we've never done before really," said Koen Knouse, 8th grader.
"I think it's cool that we're finally learning something different, like a different technique of singing, and I'm excited to see our gig on Friday," commented Jadah Evans, 8th grader.
"Just to have the school acknowledge the art form and to bring some history to these kids that otherwise wouldn't know really anything about the genre the blues, it means a lot to us to say the names of people long gone and have them still live on in these young people here today, it's really quite something for us," said Geneva Red, blues artist.
The students along with the Steel Drum Group will perform what they've been working on all week, on Friday. Geneva Red and The Original Delta Fireballs will be performing a blues concert Wednesday Night at the Allen County Museum starting at 7 p.m. The concert is free and open to the public.
