Causes: Arts & Culture, Arts Education
Mission: The W. O. Smith/Nashville Community Music School, founded in 1984, is a nonprofit educational institution created for the purpose of making quality music instruction available to talented, interested, deserving children from low income families at the nominal fee of 50 cents a lesson. The school also seeks to encourage student participation in the cultural life of the community through concert attendance and performance.
Target demographics: low-income children
Direct beneficiaries per year: 700 low-income children ages 6 to 18.
Geographic areas served: Nashville/Middle Tennessee
Programs: W. O. Smith Music School provides music instruction to children from low-income families for 50¢ per lesson. 200 volunteer teaching artists provide all lessons. Instruments and learning materials loaned at no additional cost. No child is turned away from our services for an inability to pay our modest fees. We transform lives through music!
Mission: The W. O. Smith/Nashville Community Music School, founded in 1984, is a nonprofit educational institution created for the purpose of making quality music instruction available to talented, interested, deserving children from low income families at the nominal fee of 50 cents a lesson. The school also seeks to encourage student participation in the cultural life of the community through concert attendance and performance.
Target demographics: low-income children
Direct beneficiaries per year: 700 low-income children ages 6 to 18.
Geographic areas served: Nashville/Middle Tennessee
Programs: W. O. Smith Music School provides music instruction to children from low-income families for 50¢ per lesson. 200 volunteer teaching artists provide all lessons. Instruments and learning materials loaned at no additional cost. No child is turned away from our services for an inability to pay our modest fees. We transform lives through music!
info@wosmith.org
P. O. Box 121348, Nashville, TN 37212
615-255-8355
Arts & Culture
Nashville
