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Phish Fans Support Music in Ellicott City School

The Mockingbird Foundation has supplied The Linwood Center with a grant for musical instruments.

A nonprofit foundation set up by fans of the band Phish has awarded Ellicott City’s Linwood Center a grant for its fine arts program.

The Mockingbird Foundation this year announced 10 grants worth more than $46,000 to support music education for children. Included in those grants is $4,000 for musical instruments for The Linwood Center, a school for children with autism. 

The instruments will come as the school prepares for groundbreaking on a new, 36,000-square-foot building, which will allow the school – – to admit a broader range of students.

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The school provides education and residential programs and “autism-specific life span services,” according to the statement.

 

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