Community Music Centers of Atlanta
Little 5 Points Music Center Decatur Music Center Dunwoody Music Center Satellite
From our Audio Archive: a copy of the Feb 24 interview with Scott Glazer on 1690 am. 1690 am (The Voice of the Arts) :: Scott Glazer interviews Diana Orozco, Taylor Jones, and Phil Sims about the CMC Atlanta and the Berklee City Music Network (includes some good bumper music)Welcome to the CMC of AtlantaOn our site you will find information about the vibrant educational programs we offer to children and adults in our neighborhood music schools. We encourage you to take the time to reflect on what you are seeking from a music education, and we hope you will carefully compare your desires with our programs in Classical, Jazz, Rock, and Roots music.
In short, we're offering you the opportunity to encounter and to learn how to develop beauty through an authentic musical practice in a community of faculty, students and their families. Beauty is not to be confused with "pretty"-- because let's be frank, beautiful things usually come with a bit of awe, sometimes rough edge, and often even hilarity or levity. Beauty also varies from one style to another: it is, as they should say, in the ear of the beholder.
Interested in Lessons? Learn More About Our Program
From the opening of our first Center in Little 5 Points, we've been committed to realizing a single pedagogical goal: providing students of all ages and varied backgrounds the opportunity to cultivate a genuine musical practice in the style of their own choosing... or making. We honor discipline and hard work, but we also embrace the critical role fun plays in learning and making music.
Atlanta's Got Roots
In the fall of 2009, the Music Center expanded program offerings to include a new track in Roots Music. The Roots Department provides students the opportunity to study traditional American music, including folk, bluegrass, country roots, and Old-Time, under the guidance of a faculty who actively perform in these fields. Leah Calvert, the Director of the new Department, sings and fiddles with the Dappled Grays, an Atlanta-based band whose latest album, Doin' My Job (2007) made it into the top ten in the Sirius/XM bluegrass charts.
Now available: lessons in fiddling, bluegrass and other Roots style singing, banjo, mandolin, guitar picking, and accordion
Listen :: the Dappled Grays' Music Box
Read more :: Americana jam hosted by our Roots Department at Twain's in Decatur
Meet the Five Points Quintet
Residencies bring performers in to close and regular contact with students and faculty in an educational setting. Professional musicians offer their insights to aspiring musicians through such relationships. The Music Center's Classical Music Department is currently hosting the Five Points Quintet, a woodwind quintet comprised of devoted freelance musicians who joined forces in the late summer of 2009 to perform their favorite genre: classical chamber music.
The Five Points Quintet presented a free debut recital in November 2009, performing works by Ibert, Bozza, Mueller, Ferguson, and Ligeti. Plans include another performance in the Spring of 2010.
Featured Events
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Tripping Lily : Ukelele Workshop
Decatur Music Center
Saturday, March 27, 2010 2:00-4:00 pm
Ukelele Workshop with members of the Cape Cod based band Tripping Lily before their evening show at Eddie's Attic in Decatur
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Americana Jam
Freight Room Revival
Twain's Billiards and Tap
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 8:00 to 11:00 pm
How many of y'all remember the Freight Room? For those of you that don't, it occupied the same space as what is now the Depeaux in Decatur. It was once the gathering place for the Atlanta area's finest bluegrass players.
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The Human C-In
Celebrate Spring with Something a Little Different
Little 5 Points Music Center
Saturday, March 20, 2010
8:00 to 9:30 pm
Are you a musician? A hippie visionary? Fan of vintage mid-century musical experimentation? Playful or curious?
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Stretch. Imagine. Improvise. Explore.
A CMP vocal workshop lead by guest instructor and Music Center friend Virginia Schenck
Little 5 Points Music Center
Saturday, March 27, 2010 2:00 to 5:00 pm
Singers, actors, writers, instrumentalists, storytellers, and anyone seeking to expand his or her creative potential will gain from this experience. This workshop is being offered for students in grades 8-12. (An adult workshop will be offered in April at Eyedrum.)
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