New Music Center in Bridge
East End Arts, a nonprofit organization in Riverhead founded in 1972 to promote music, theater, and other forms of art on the East End, has announced that it is launching a satellite location of its East End Arts School this fall at the Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center.
East End Arts will begin offering private lessons in voice, violin, guitar, piano, and band and orchestra instruments on Sept. 12, according to a release. Group guitar classes will be offered on Saturday mornings, with other group lessons to be added in the future, the organization said. Both children and adults can sign up for lessons and classes. Scholarships will also be available.
The child care center launched its own music curriculum in 2015 after the first Jazz for Jennings fund-raiser successfully raised enough money. Bonnie Michelle Cannon, the center’s director, said in a statement that she and the staff “are very excited to be able to expand to instruments beyond our keyboards with our new partnership with East End Arts.”
“This is a fabulous opportunity to bring music into the lives of children and their families on the South Fork,” Ms. Cannon said.
Michael Clark, the longtime owner of the Crossroads Music, an Amagansett store and lesson center that closed at the end of 2015, said the East End Arts satellite location will be a great way to support music here.
“We learned at Crossroads Music that some enjoy a centralized location as opposed to in their home or at the teacher’s location,” he said in an email. “So there is room for everyone. What East End Arts can provide, in my opinion, is not just lessons but community support such as workshops, concerts, and similar events to show that music is so much more than teaching and practicing. It is a part of everyday life.”
The Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center is at 551 Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike. More information on the music program is available by emailing East End Arts at [email protected] or by calling 631-369-2171.