The studio is closed Monday, November 23 through Friday, November 27 for the Thanksgiving holiday. The studio will also be closed the week of Christmas and the following week. The monthly tuition is based on a 46 week calendar. We are closed each year for spring break, the week of July 4, the week of Thanksgiving, the week of Christmas and the week after, and one other week during the year to be announced.

I hope you have a wonderful holiday season. I'm looking forward to playing a lot of Christmas music with you over the next 4 weeks. I will be playing and singing at the YMCA as well as Christmas approaches. Stop by and sing along on some of your favorite Christmas tunes.

A 7 month experiment ended in October. At the urging of some fellow teachers, I moved my studio to Sunset Plaza in April of 2009 to take advantage of a larger space so that I might teach classes. The location was perfect and generated a lot of new students. One drawback...it turned out that most of my students preferred individual lessons instead of classes. Truth be told--so do I. After some vacillating, I moved the studio back home the first full week of October.

It was a good experiment. I learned some of the benefits of the classroom setting. There really are some motivational elements that come into play in the group setting, but they weren't enough to justify staying for the long term. One can do well only what one is called to do, eh? Good experience.