JetBlue Gifts One Year Of Free Travel To A Greenpoint-based Street Musician
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Here’s something to brighten the start of your week.
Last week, JetBlue in partnership with VH1’s Save The Music program and students of PS 048X in the Bronx, surprised three NYC street musicians with one year free flights. The once in a lifetime gift dubbed “Let Music Move You” is part of VH1’s ongoing Save the Music campaign to bring music education to kids in schools.
The street performers were informed they would be a part of a video VH1 was making about musicians who perform around the city, but were totally clueless that they all would receive the gift of a lifetime. Children from PS 048X posed as observers of the musicians and approached them after each finished recording a song to hand them a certificate offering a free year of travel courtesy of JetBlue.
“I had absolutely no idea,” Zack Orion—a 40-year-old Virginia native who’s been playing the banjo, drums, and guitar for 22 years and has been playing on NYC streets since he was 16, told Condé Nast Traveler.
Jesse Cohen, a popular New York City street performer—particularly in Williamsburg—was also one of the recipients. The 37-year-old singer, songwriter prefers to play along the Bedford Avenue and Metropolitan subway stops, near his home in Greenpoint.
“What keeps me going as a writer and traveling performer is that I love seeing the road get smaller, I love seeing different types of inspiration from being with people who see music as a common language,” Cohen tells Condé Nast Traveler.
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Cohen, who has won the hearts and ears of locals and a few famous people, including actor Steve Buscemi – who he crossed paths with in Park Slope, dreams of singing on Broadway and plans to use the free flights to travel to “musically inclined cities like Nashville and Los Angeles.” He also boast about going to Peru and Cuba, as JetBlue has officially begun their service to the once closed off country.
Guitarist-singer Najah Lewis was also a recipient of a year of free travel.
“We did this because there are stories to be told all over our city, and we love taking the opportunity to share why our hometown is so special. Because art, music and travel breed inspiration, and while everyone has a voice, not everyone gets the audience they deserve,” Jaclyn Costantino of JetBlue’s consumer promotions team said.
Incredible.
Watch the video below:
