Children at the Atlanta Music Project’s winter concert.
Just south of downtown Atlanta lies the neighborhood known as Mechanicsville. Established as a mostly working-class neighborhood in the late 19th century, it has fallen on harder times. A 2009 report on City-Data.com said that it had a 60 percent poverty rate and a median household income of $13,226.
That makes it the kind of neighborhood that matches the bold mission of the Atlanta Music Project. Mechanicsville is the chosen location for the two-year-old organization’s latest initiative, AMPlify, an after-school choral program…
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By Mark Gresham
