{"id":140707,"date":"2025-03-02T11:56:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T16:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=140707"},"modified":"2025-03-02T11:56:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T16:56:43","slug":"free-music-lessons-to-celebrate-11th-annual-teach-music-week-1200-locations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=140707","title":{"rendered":"FREE Music Lessons to Celebrate 11th Annual Teach Music Week \u2013 1,200+ locations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Keep Music Alive<\/strong>\u00a0is excited to announce the 11th<\/sup>\u00a0Annual\u00a0Teach Music Week<\/strong>\u00a0happening Monday, March 17th<\/sup>\u00a0through Sunday, March 23rd<\/sup>.\u00a0 This annual week-long holiday invites musicians, music schools, music stores, independent music instructors and other music organizations to offer a free lesson or class to new students (both kids & adults).\u00a0 This year, 1,200+ locations in over a dozen countries will participate including the U.S., Canada, Australia, Ecuador, France, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Nigeria and the United Kingdom.\u00a0 Locations are now available to search by zip code\/postal code and city\/state at\u00a0www.TeachMusicWeek.org<\/a>\u00a0with new locations being added weekly.<\/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 which is celebrating its milestone 40th<\/sup>\u00a0Anniversary this year.\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 school music teachers 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 very often the biggest hurdle to doing something is 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 11th\u00a0<\/sup>Annual Teach Music Week: Casio<\/strong>,\u00a0Chord Board, Guitar Center, Les Paul Foundation, Music Nomad, Panyard and\u00a0REMO.\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 Saturday March 15: \u00a0RSVP<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0www.GuitarCenter.com\/Lessons-Open-House.gc<\/a><\/p>\n

Music & Arts<\/strong>\u00a0is also offering a Music Lessons Open House at over 200 locations with a free Group Music Lesson class on Saturday March 22nd with an additional special offer to buy 3 individual lessons and receive one free with no registration fee.\u00a0 RSVP –\u00a0https:\/\/www.musicarts.com\/cms\/lessons-open-house<\/a><\/p>\n

Locations from additional chains participating this\u00a0year include\u00a0Long & McQuade<\/strong>,\u00a0Kindermusik<\/strong>,\u00a0Gymboree Play & Music<\/strong>,\u00a0Music Together<\/strong>\u00a0and the legendary\u00a0School of Rock<\/strong>. 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

Information provided to TVL by:
\nKeep Music Alive<\/p>\n

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Keep Music Alive\u00a0is excited to announce the 11th\u00a0Annual\u00a0Teach Music Week\u00a0happening Monday, March 17th\u00a0through Sunday, March 23rd.\u00a0 This annual week-long holiday invites musicians, music schools, music stores, independent music instructors and … Continue reading FREE Music Lessons to Celebrate 11th Annual Teach Music Week \u2013 1,200+ locations<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140708,"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":[69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/teach-music.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140707"}],"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=140707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/140708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}