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Episode 8: Finding a Music Teacher. How do parents find the teacher that is right for their child? Let SFCV help with our Tips & Advice and searchable Directory of Music Teachers. We discuss a few of the basic points, plus family-friendly concerts for the weekend, here.

Introducing the Double Bass!
Say Aloha to the Ukelele
There's Music in the Air in Redwood City

The academy that awards music’s highest honors feels besieged by complaints, after it announces that 29 categories will be axed. Musicians are fighting back.

Three Stages at Folsom Lake College has just hosted its first events, but the region’s arts organizations are pinning their hopes on the beautiful new complex.

Looming budget cuts will devastate Oakland’s lively arts and education scene.

Music from the HBO series is hitting the road to showcase the vitality of New Orleans’ traditional jazz.

No joke: At a concert showcasing new music for viola, an instrument was shattered — but not the spirits of the musicians or most of the audience.

Episode 7: Latin and traditional Jazz festivals heat up. Break out the claves and the dance shoes, and watch out—these rhythms are infectious!

Pianist Rachel Breen: One Cool Competitor
Planting Western Musical Roots in Kenya
Walden School Takes the Prize