Music Teacher Referral List |
Corrina Barrett (Spokane, WA)
Corrina Barrett offers violin and fiddle lessons in North Spokane to ages five and above.
Contact Corrina Barrett at (509) 466-7631.
Website: haveviolinwilltravel.com/violin_lessons.htm
Kelly Bogan School of Music (Spokane, WA)
Kelly Bogan offers piano, guitar, and other fretted instrument lessons. Kelly’s studio is located at 1301 W 14th Ave, Spokane.
Contact Kelly Bogan at (509) 744-9861.
Carla Carnegie (Otis Orchards, WA)
Carla Carnegie teaches beginning and intermediate piano, violin, fiddle, and voice. She serves the Spokane, Post Falls, and Coeur d'Alene areas as a board-certified music therapist and offers adaptive lessons. Carla’s studio is located in Otis Orchards.
Contact Carla Carnegie at (509) 592-7875.
Website: willowsongmusictherapy.com
Joe Caruso (Spokane, WA)
Joe Caruso offers blues, rock, classical, Spanish, flamenco, and fingerstyle guitar lessons.
Contact Joe Caruso at (509) 326-3646.
Website: joecarusoguitarstudio.com
Cealaigh-Erynn Music Studio (Spokane, WA)
The Cealaigh-Erynn Music Studio offers guitar, mandolin, bass, violin, viola, and beginning and intermediate piano lessons. The studio provides specialized instruction in music arranging, composition, and theory. He is also available for hire to compose and arrange all genres for any ensemble. He is a published ASCAP member and musician with the 133rd Army Band.
Contact Cealaigh-Erynn at (509) 455-3573 (studio) or (509) 475-3115 (cell) or [email protected].
Dayan Kai
Dayan Kai offers lessons in piano, voice, guitars, electric bass, dobro, woodwinds, four and five-string banjo, mandolin, accordion, trumpet, drum-set, percussion, songwriting, musical instruments of the Andes, and various other unusual instruments from around the world. He offers private, semi-private, and group lessons.
Dayan provides lessons at Waimele in Chattaroy or Clear Water Music in North Spokane.
Contact Dayan Kai at (831) 345-3312.
Websites: www.dayankai.com
JJ Dion (Post Falls, ID)
JJ Dion has twenty-five years of experience teaching guitar, electric bass, ukulele, and piano keyboard. He offers solo or group lessons in all styles for beginner through intermediate students ages seven and up. His rates are reasonable.
Contact JJ Dion at (208) 262-1980 or [email protected].
The Drum House
The Drum House is a community group open to everyone and hosts drum circles, classes, workshops, and performances.
Contact Michael Taylor (208) 596-6001 or [email protected].
Patt Duff
Patt Duff provides fiddle, Celtic, old-time, and bluegrass lessons.
Contact Patt Duff at (509) 276-0318.
Michael Gifford (Rossland, BC)
Michael Gifford teaches you how to play the washtub bass.
Contact Michael Gifford at (250) 362-7170 or [email protected].
Andrea Goddard
Andrea Goddard provides piano, voice, and ear training lessons.
Contact Andrea Goddard at (509) 483-5227.
Steven King
Steven King is available for private guitar instruction on Mondays and Wednesdays at Learn to Burn, 11 E Rockwell Blvd, Spokane; Tuesdays and Fridays at Holy Names Music Center, 3910 W Custer Dr, Spokane; and Thursdays at Guitar Acres, 28517 N Perry Rd, Chattaroy.
Contact Steven King at (509) 238-6504.
Websites: www.kingofguitar.com
Holy Names Music Center
The Holy Names Music Center is at 3910 W Custer Dr, Spokane.
Contact the Holy Names Music Center at (509) 326-9516.
Website: www.hnmc.org
Jeff McMurtery
Jeff McMurtery offers bodhran (Irish drum) lessons. He provides instruction in all levels of playing, workshops, and the history of the instrument.
Contact Jeff McMurtery at (509) 893-1386 or [email protected].
Truck Mills (Sandpoint, ID)
Truck Mills offers guitar Instruction.
Contact Truck Mills at (208) 946-6956.
Michael Moon Bear
Michael is the hand drumming instructor at the MALIDOMA! World Drum & Dance Studio. As a professional percussionist and educator, Michael offers instruction on traditional hand percussion instruments such as the West African djembe and dunun, Egyptian doumbek, tar, and deff, and Afro-Cuban conga and clave. Michael is the author of “DRUM! Traditional Drum Rhythms That You Can Play Today.” He offers private and group lessons and facilitates public and private workshops.
Contact Michael Moon Bear at (509) 624-7573 or [email protected].
Heidi Muller (Joseph, OR)
Heidi Muller offers private and Skype lessons in Appalachian Mountain dulcimer, guitar, and songwriting instruction. Further, she provides group workshops at festivals, schools, and community settings across the Northwest.
Contact Heidi Muller at (304) 382-9422 or [email protected].
Website: www.heidimuller.com
Linda Parman
Linda Parman offers guitar lessons.
Contact Linda Parman at (509) 456-8205.
Dario Ré (Sandpoint, ID and Spokane, WA)
Dario Ré offers personalized music lessons to people of all levels and all ages. For those with minimal experience or who have not decided what instrument to pursue, his methodology provides a safe space to explore and discover how you can enter the world of music. This approach consists of a rounded introduction to music focusing on rhythm, ear training, and fun. For those who are already proficient at an instrument, he will help hone your skills and challenge your creative limits. He is prepared to cover material such as guitar, ukulele, piano, percussion, songwriting, applied music theory, jamming, ear training, melody writing, lyrical workshopping, creativity with tunings, etc.
Contact Dario Ré at (509) 655-2044 or [email protected].
Website: www.dariore.com
Scottish Gaelic Waulking Songs (Coeur d’Alene, ID)
Contact Rachel Noriega at (208) 964-5090 or [email protected].
Jeanette Sheeran
Jeanette Sheeran offers autoharp and mountain dulcimer Instruction.
Contact Jeanette Sheeran at (509) 294-3080 or [email protected].
Spokane Dulcimer Guild
Mountain dulcimer players meet twice monthly at one of the Spokane Libraries to play mostly folk and traditional music. We gear the first hour of the jams for novice dulcimer players. We have dulcimers available to try out.
Contact Ed Day at [email protected].
Website: www.spokanedulcimerguild.net/calender-and-events
SFCC World Drumming Ensemble
The SFCC World Drumming Ensemble is open to beginning, intermediate, and advanced students with no prior expectations of drumming or music reading skills. However, some background in both areas is helpful. Through drumming, singing, and dancing heritages, this ensemble exposes participants to music cultures outside of the North American continent, including African, Brazilian, Cuban, Caribbean, and Afro-Cuban cultures. Professional dancers often collaborate with this ensemble to augment the authentic experience of traditional and contemporary world music. The college provides instruments for student use, and enrolled students may check out a limited number of instruments for practice at home. Please enroll in MUSC 134 with Zyskowski as Instructor.
Contact the SFCC Music Department at (509) 533-3720 or Professor Zyskowski at [email protected].
John Sylte (Rathdrum, ID)
John Sylte offers beginning to advanced violin and fiddle lessons. He also provides specialized clawhammer banjo, diatonic harmonica, and Anglo concertina classes.
Contact John Sylte at (208) 687-6699.
Dusty Thomas
Dusty Thomas offers bodhran, penny whistle, flute, and saxophone instruction. He is a professional in these instruments, having played in everything from the Air Force band to jamming sessions at O’Doherty’s Irish Grille.
Contact Dusty Thomas at (509) 863-5574 or [email protected].
Don Thomsen
Don Thomsen teaches most string folk instruments, Celtic, blues, folk, and swing styles.
Contact Don Thomsen at (509) 534-3150.
West African Drumming with David Casteal
David Casteal teaches the drum rhythms of Mali. Drummers of all levels are welcome.
Contact David Casteal at (509) 327-5153 or [email protected].
Sam Wollenhaupt
Sam Wollenhaupt offers percussion lessons.
11511 E. Trent Ave.
Contact Sam Wollenhaupt at (509) 599-1900.
Website: spokanedrumlessons.com
If you would like us to add you to our referral list or you would like to modify your listing, please email [email protected] or call the Fall Folk Festival message phone at (509) 828-3683.
Corrina Barrett offers violin and fiddle lessons in North Spokane to ages five and above.
Contact Corrina Barrett at (509) 466-7631.
Website: haveviolinwilltravel.com/violin_lessons.htm
Kelly Bogan School of Music (Spokane, WA)
Kelly Bogan offers piano, guitar, and other fretted instrument lessons. Kelly’s studio is located at 1301 W 14th Ave, Spokane.
Contact Kelly Bogan at (509) 744-9861.
Carla Carnegie (Otis Orchards, WA)
Carla Carnegie teaches beginning and intermediate piano, violin, fiddle, and voice. She serves the Spokane, Post Falls, and Coeur d'Alene areas as a board-certified music therapist and offers adaptive lessons. Carla’s studio is located in Otis Orchards.
Contact Carla Carnegie at (509) 592-7875.
Website: willowsongmusictherapy.com
Joe Caruso (Spokane, WA)
Joe Caruso offers blues, rock, classical, Spanish, flamenco, and fingerstyle guitar lessons.
Contact Joe Caruso at (509) 326-3646.
Website: joecarusoguitarstudio.com
Cealaigh-Erynn Music Studio (Spokane, WA)
The Cealaigh-Erynn Music Studio offers guitar, mandolin, bass, violin, viola, and beginning and intermediate piano lessons. The studio provides specialized instruction in music arranging, composition, and theory. He is also available for hire to compose and arrange all genres for any ensemble. He is a published ASCAP member and musician with the 133rd Army Band.
Contact Cealaigh-Erynn at (509) 455-3573 (studio) or (509) 475-3115 (cell) or [email protected].
Dayan Kai
Dayan Kai offers lessons in piano, voice, guitars, electric bass, dobro, woodwinds, four and five-string banjo, mandolin, accordion, trumpet, drum-set, percussion, songwriting, musical instruments of the Andes, and various other unusual instruments from around the world. He offers private, semi-private, and group lessons.
Dayan provides lessons at Waimele in Chattaroy or Clear Water Music in North Spokane.
Contact Dayan Kai at (831) 345-3312.
Websites: www.dayankai.com
JJ Dion (Post Falls, ID)
JJ Dion has twenty-five years of experience teaching guitar, electric bass, ukulele, and piano keyboard. He offers solo or group lessons in all styles for beginner through intermediate students ages seven and up. His rates are reasonable.
Contact JJ Dion at (208) 262-1980 or [email protected].
The Drum House
The Drum House is a community group open to everyone and hosts drum circles, classes, workshops, and performances.
Contact Michael Taylor (208) 596-6001 or [email protected].
Patt Duff
Patt Duff provides fiddle, Celtic, old-time, and bluegrass lessons.
Contact Patt Duff at (509) 276-0318.
Michael Gifford (Rossland, BC)
Michael Gifford teaches you how to play the washtub bass.
Contact Michael Gifford at (250) 362-7170 or [email protected].
Andrea Goddard
Andrea Goddard provides piano, voice, and ear training lessons.
Contact Andrea Goddard at (509) 483-5227.
Steven King
Steven King is available for private guitar instruction on Mondays and Wednesdays at Learn to Burn, 11 E Rockwell Blvd, Spokane; Tuesdays and Fridays at Holy Names Music Center, 3910 W Custer Dr, Spokane; and Thursdays at Guitar Acres, 28517 N Perry Rd, Chattaroy.
Contact Steven King at (509) 238-6504.
Websites: www.kingofguitar.com
Holy Names Music Center
The Holy Names Music Center is at 3910 W Custer Dr, Spokane.
Contact the Holy Names Music Center at (509) 326-9516.
Website: www.hnmc.org
Jeff McMurtery
Jeff McMurtery offers bodhran (Irish drum) lessons. He provides instruction in all levels of playing, workshops, and the history of the instrument.
Contact Jeff McMurtery at (509) 893-1386 or [email protected].
Truck Mills (Sandpoint, ID)
Truck Mills offers guitar Instruction.
Contact Truck Mills at (208) 946-6956.
Michael Moon Bear
Michael is the hand drumming instructor at the MALIDOMA! World Drum & Dance Studio. As a professional percussionist and educator, Michael offers instruction on traditional hand percussion instruments such as the West African djembe and dunun, Egyptian doumbek, tar, and deff, and Afro-Cuban conga and clave. Michael is the author of “DRUM! Traditional Drum Rhythms That You Can Play Today.” He offers private and group lessons and facilitates public and private workshops.
Contact Michael Moon Bear at (509) 624-7573 or [email protected].
Heidi Muller (Joseph, OR)
Heidi Muller offers private and Skype lessons in Appalachian Mountain dulcimer, guitar, and songwriting instruction. Further, she provides group workshops at festivals, schools, and community settings across the Northwest.
Contact Heidi Muller at (304) 382-9422 or [email protected].
Website: www.heidimuller.com
Linda Parman
Linda Parman offers guitar lessons.
Contact Linda Parman at (509) 456-8205.
Dario Ré (Sandpoint, ID and Spokane, WA)
Dario Ré offers personalized music lessons to people of all levels and all ages. For those with minimal experience or who have not decided what instrument to pursue, his methodology provides a safe space to explore and discover how you can enter the world of music. This approach consists of a rounded introduction to music focusing on rhythm, ear training, and fun. For those who are already proficient at an instrument, he will help hone your skills and challenge your creative limits. He is prepared to cover material such as guitar, ukulele, piano, percussion, songwriting, applied music theory, jamming, ear training, melody writing, lyrical workshopping, creativity with tunings, etc.
Contact Dario Ré at (509) 655-2044 or [email protected].
Website: www.dariore.com
Scottish Gaelic Waulking Songs (Coeur d’Alene, ID)
Contact Rachel Noriega at (208) 964-5090 or [email protected].
Jeanette Sheeran
Jeanette Sheeran offers autoharp and mountain dulcimer Instruction.
Contact Jeanette Sheeran at (509) 294-3080 or [email protected].
Spokane Dulcimer Guild
Mountain dulcimer players meet twice monthly at one of the Spokane Libraries to play mostly folk and traditional music. We gear the first hour of the jams for novice dulcimer players. We have dulcimers available to try out.
Contact Ed Day at [email protected].
Website: www.spokanedulcimerguild.net/calender-and-events
SFCC World Drumming Ensemble
The SFCC World Drumming Ensemble is open to beginning, intermediate, and advanced students with no prior expectations of drumming or music reading skills. However, some background in both areas is helpful. Through drumming, singing, and dancing heritages, this ensemble exposes participants to music cultures outside of the North American continent, including African, Brazilian, Cuban, Caribbean, and Afro-Cuban cultures. Professional dancers often collaborate with this ensemble to augment the authentic experience of traditional and contemporary world music. The college provides instruments for student use, and enrolled students may check out a limited number of instruments for practice at home. Please enroll in MUSC 134 with Zyskowski as Instructor.
Contact the SFCC Music Department at (509) 533-3720 or Professor Zyskowski at [email protected].
John Sylte (Rathdrum, ID)
John Sylte offers beginning to advanced violin and fiddle lessons. He also provides specialized clawhammer banjo, diatonic harmonica, and Anglo concertina classes.
Contact John Sylte at (208) 687-6699.
Dusty Thomas
Dusty Thomas offers bodhran, penny whistle, flute, and saxophone instruction. He is a professional in these instruments, having played in everything from the Air Force band to jamming sessions at O’Doherty’s Irish Grille.
Contact Dusty Thomas at (509) 863-5574 or [email protected].
Don Thomsen
Don Thomsen teaches most string folk instruments, Celtic, blues, folk, and swing styles.
Contact Don Thomsen at (509) 534-3150.
West African Drumming with David Casteal
David Casteal teaches the drum rhythms of Mali. Drummers of all levels are welcome.
Contact David Casteal at (509) 327-5153 or [email protected].
Sam Wollenhaupt
Sam Wollenhaupt offers percussion lessons.
11511 E. Trent Ave.
Contact Sam Wollenhaupt at (509) 599-1900.
Website: spokanedrumlessons.com
If you would like us to add you to our referral list or you would like to modify your listing, please email [email protected] or call the Fall Folk Festival message phone at (509) 828-3683.
