{"id":128037,"date":"2024-03-03T16:38:27","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T21:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=128037"},"modified":"2024-03-03T16:38:27","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T21:38:27","slug":"free-music-lessons-to-celebrate-10th-annual-teach-music-week-1200-locations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=128037","title":{"rendered":"FREE Music Lessons to Celebrate 10th Annual Teach Music Week \u2013 1,200+ Locations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Philadelphia\/PA \u2013\u00a0The milestone 10th<\/sup>\u00a0Annual\u00a0Teach Music Week<\/strong>\u00a0will be celebrated Monday, March 18th<\/sup>\u00a0through Sunday, March 24th<\/sup>.\u00a0 This annual week-long holiday invites musicians, music schools, music stores and other music organizations to offer a free lesson or class to new students (both children & adults).\u00a0 This year, 1,200+ locations in sixteen countries will participate including the U.S., Australia, Canada, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Nigeria and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n

Teach Music Week is celebrated annually during the 3rd week of March to coincide with national\u00a0Music in Our Schools Month<\/strong>\u00ae.\u00a0 Anyone interested in learning to play an instrument is encouraged to seek out a participating location or musician friend to help get them started.\u00a0 Teach Music Week also invites public, private and charter schools to schedule activities that will encourage more students to sign up for music, band and chorus classes.<\/p>\n

Vincent James<\/strong>, co-founder of Keep Music Alive states: \u201cWe all know that the biggest hurdle to doing something is often just getting started. With Teach Music Week, we are hoping to inspire a new generation of musicians who will continue reaping the many benefits of playing music, long after the month of March is over<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Keep Music Alive\u00a0<\/strong>is honored to welcome the following music brands and organizations as partners for the 10th<\/sup>\u00a0Annual Teach Music Week:\u00a0 Alfred Music<\/strong>,\u00a0Casio<\/strong>,\u00a0Conn-Selmer<\/strong>,\u00a0D\u2019Addario Foundation<\/strong>,\u00a0Guitars in the Classroom,<\/strong>\u00a0Hungry for Music<\/strong>,\u00a0Kala Brand Music, Music Nomad, Panyard, REMO, Spirit of Harmony Foundation.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Together, they are helping to share the Teach Music Week message, inspiring more children and adults to begin their musical journey.<\/p>\n

Keep Music Alive<\/strong>\u00a0is also excited to partner once again with\u00a0Guitar Center,\u00a0<\/strong>the\u00a0<\/strong>retail chain making it easier and more fun than ever to give music a try with a FREE group guitar lesson on Saturdays March 16th<\/sup>\u00a0and March 23rd<\/sup>:\u00a0\u00a0RSVP<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0www.GuitarCenter.com\/Lessons-Open-House.gc<\/a><\/p>\n

Locations from additional chains participating this year include Music & Arts, Long & McQuade, Kindermusik, Gymboree Play & Music, Music Together and the legendary School of Rock.\u00a0 Keep Music Alive is also grateful for grant support received from the\u00a0Les Paul Foundation<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Music Nomad\u2019s \u201cOne for Music<\/em>\u201d Program<\/strong>.\u00a0 For more information or to find participating locations, please visit\u00a0www.TeachMusicWeek.org<\/a>\u00a0or call or email (610) 874-6312,\u00a0info@KeepMusicAlive.org<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n

Keep Music Alive<\/strong>\u00a0is a national 501(c)(3) non-profit on a mission to help more kids (and adults) reap the educational, therapeutic and social benefits of playing music.\u00a0 They are founders of two international music holidays:\u00a0Teach Music Week<\/strong>\u00a0(3rd<\/sup>\u00a0week in March) and\u00a0Kids Music Day<\/strong>\u00a0(1st<\/sup>\u00a0Friday in October).\u00a0 Each year, Keep Music Alive partners with hundreds of music school and retail locations to offer free music lessons and host special events including student music performances, instrument petting zoos, community jams, instrument donation drives and more.\u00a0 For more information, please visit\u00a0www.KeepMusicAlive.org<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n

Music in Our Schools Month<\/strong>\u00ae is a registered trademark owned by the\u00a0National Association for Music Education<\/strong>\u00a0(www.NAfME.org<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Philadelphia\/PA \u2013\u00a0The milestone 10th\u00a0Annual\u00a0Teach Music Week\u00a0will be celebrated Monday, March 18th\u00a0through Sunday, March 24th.\u00a0 This annual week-long holiday invites musicians, music schools, music stores and other music organizations to offer … Continue reading FREE Music Lessons to Celebrate 10th Annual Teach Music Week \u2013 1,200+ Locations<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128039,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/teach-music-day.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128037"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/128039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}