press release:

The ASCAP Songwriter Residency @ America SCORES is coming to Seattle and they’re bringing hip-hop artist Psalm One. She’ll be co-writing and recording an original song with the SCORES teams from Roxhill Elementary.

The ASCAP Songwriter Residency is a unique program in which songwriters give back to the community by hosting workshops at our schools. On October 3rd and 4th, Psalm One will co-write an original song with the students at Roxhill, and on Wednesday, October 5th they record it at Robert Lang Studios- Seattle’s Oldest World Class Recording Studio.

Psalm One will be in nine SCORES cities – Milwaukee, Seattle, San Francisco, Denver, Washington DC, Atlanta, NYC, Boston and Chicago- co-writing a song and recording it with SCORES poet-athletes in each city. At the end of the tour she’ll be putting together an album of all of the songs recorded with SCORES teams to be released online.

About America SCORES Seattle
America SCORES Seattle works with 160 third, fourth and fifth graders in five urban, public elementary schools in Seattle’s Central District, Rainier Beach, and White Center neighborhoods. SCORES offers a comprehensive after-school program utilizing the whole child approach to youth development to promote teamwork, confidence and personal growth.

Student-athletes are less likely to drop out of school, and more likely to attend college than students who do not participate in any extra-curricular activities. Yet, in the U.S., over 65 percent of urban school children do not participate in extracurricular activities involving any form of exercise. America SCORES Seattle engages children in at least four hours of soccer a week ensuring that SCORES student-athletes learn to be physically active and be involved with a team at an early age. SCORES translates the teamwork and involvement of the soccer field into the classroom engaging students in writing and community service workshops that encourage a desire to succeed.

America SCORES Seattle is an affiliate of America SCORES, a national model for youth development, targeting girls and boys in urban neighborhoods that offer few, if any, recreational programs. We have sister programs in the Bay Area, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Denver, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, New England, New York, and Washington, DC. For more information visit www.AmericaSCORESSeattle.org, or our blog at www.AmericaSCORESSeattle.blogspot.com.

About Psalm One
A critically acclaimed hip-hop artist from Chicago, Psalm One is a former scientist and the only woman signed to indie power label Rhymesayers Entertainment. For more information on Psalm One check out: http://www.regularblackgirl.com/ & http://www.blog.regularblackgirl.com/