Red Hot Chilli Peppers bassist Flea has claimed the lack of funding for music education in US schools is equivalent to “child abuse.”
“It’s child abuse, it’s just wrong,” he told Rolling Stone.
Flea has always been a strong activist for music education and formed the Silverlake Conservatory of Music in 2001, after he returned to his own high school in California to find a lack of instruments.
The Silverlake Conservatory is a a non-profit school that offers free music lessons to students which Flea initially funded himself before holding annual fundraisers to fundraise for the school.
The Red Hot Chilli Peppers will be performing alongside Randy Newman and Anderson Paak at a fundraising show on September 9, where they will be joined by the children’s choir from the school for an acoustic set.
