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McCartney, Fidelity team up on charity
With a new album out and a US tour underway, legendary former Beatle Paul McCartney is seizing the spotlight today to launch a nonprofit foundation to promote music education in schools. McCartney partnered with Boston-based Fidelity Investments to launch the Music Lives Foundation, which is aimed at raising awareness and funds for budget-stricken music education programs in schools.
The venture coincides with McCartney's 11-week sold-out tour in support of Chaos and Creation in the Backyard, his first album since 2001's Driving Rain.
Fidelity is sponsoring the tour and launched a major advertising campaign in September titled ''This is Paul," featuring footage from McCartney's life. The foundation will have kiosks at every McCartney concerts where fans can contribute to the foundation.
"As a boy growing up in Liverpool, I was surrounded by music," McCartney said in a statement. "That's just the way it was. The problem is that more and more music programs are in danger of being eliminated."
In its announcement, the foundation estimated that 27 million of the 54 American million children who went to school this fall are unlikely to receive adequate musical instruction in their classrooms.
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