British Music Project To Help Aspiring Phila. Musicians Next Year

PHILADELPHIA (KYW NEWSRADIO 1060) -- A British music project that works to help urban youth break into the music industry is looking to do the same thing in Philadelphia next year.

KYW's Karin Phillips reports that a film about the project is screening in Fishtown tonight as part of the Philadelphia film and music festival.

Urban Collective has been working in London to help young people study and find their places in the music industry. Founder and Director Harry Leckstein hopes to do the same thing in Philadelphia in 2011.

"We'd arrive, hold open auditions, we'll find 30 aspiring young artists and producers, aged 15 to 25. I look in areas of in and around sort of North and areas of South Philadelphia, and I see a lot of places where this project could benefit young people."

The crowning project of the London group - a film called Inferno - which tells a hip hop version of the Divine Comedy - will be screened tonight at at 2424 Studios in Fishtown at 10pm, followed by a discussion with Leckstein. For more info, go to www.londonurbancollective.com or listen to the podcast.