We've just brought on-line the ABP Forum, a great place to connect! We eventually will provide scholarships for a student to study music (likely awarded through some sort of competition); and during the fantastic, annual Festival, we will have an annual performance competition with prizes ranging from a bass and/or bow to cash. The Festival will be rotating between the three universities, and we encourage volunteers to give us ideas and help out with implementing those ideas.We would like to get the community colleges, high schools and businesses involved as well. Business help is especially needed. So you can see, the plans are enormous, adventurous, setting precedent, and exciting for all enthusiasts of the bass (whether you are a player or not, you can join ABP).

It doesn't matter if you are an amateur, a student, a professional, a teacher, a non-bass player, a musician of another sort, a singer, a guitaron player, a contrabass clarinet player, or a bass fisherman (oops!); if you are enthusiastic about the bass in all its wonderful forms, I encourage you to join our organization. The cost is minimal and the rewards are great. As you can imagine, the operating costs of putting this all together is substantial. But it is not unmanageable and if you are keen on helping out, there are ways where your service is worth more than money. So JOIN, and Bass Wishes!   ~PN