2018 Honors Recital

  St. Joseph Arts Academy The Write Notes – April 2017 Newsletter from the SJAA Welcome to the April newsletter from the St. Joseph Arts Academy. We call it the “Write Notes”. Seems right. Write? Right! There is just a lot of really exciting stuff going on with music lessons in St. Joseph Missouri and…

Don’t Fret! I wondered where this phrase originated? We all know that it basically means “don’t worry” but does it have anything to do with playing a fretted instrument? Yes and No. Originally, Fretting had to do with eating or gnawing away at something. As in a small creature chewing away at almost anything. So…

Last weekend Academy guitarists participated in the annual MSWU and SJAMTA Scholarship Benefit Young Monster Concert. The concert has been running for almost 50 years but 2017 was a first for the guitarists to be invited to participate. It was an honor. And it was a great concert with wonderful performances by young musicians, their…

Did you ever want to learn to play the guitar? Well, I did. And not just a little bit. I wanted to learn to play the guitar really, really bad. I didn’t exactly grow up in a musical family so it was a little out of the ordinary for a kid around there to be…

We had a great recital this month with the other studios from SJAMTA. Piano, strings, acoustic and electric guitar all on the same bill! Proud of the hard work these students put in to have a great performance. Thanks to the moms, dads, grandmas, grandpas and family friends who came out to show their support….