Donations and Memberships

Free Meadowlark Music Program

Free Group Lessons for K - 5th Grade

Group Music Lessons

The Meadowlark Music Program (MMP) provides free group lessons and instruments for grades K – 5. MMP allows low-income families to give their children the advantage of learning a musical instrument that they otherwise would not have access to. Students who are eligible for their school’s free and reduced lunch program qualify for MMP. Kids get to choose their instrument: the guitar, the violin, or the piano.

Meadowlark Music Program classes are held September through May at our collaborative partner sites*:

  • The Matthews House Homework Helpers

  • The Boys and Girls Club Fort Collins

  • The Boys and Girls Club Loveland-Pulliam

  • The Academy of Arts and Knowledge (Fort Collins)

  • Paideia Classical Community

*Students must be enrolled at one of these sites to register for the Meadowlark Music Program. A limited number of private (one-on-one or small groups of 2 to 3) lessons for any instrument are also available for those not involved at one of our partner sites. Please contact Jephta Bernstein, Executive Director, for more information: [email protected].

Registration is always open! If you want to register at an off-season time contact [email protected].

Summer Chamber Music Academy Program
Guitar student Meadowlark Music Program

Programs Run: September – May 

Instruments: 

  • Violin, Guitar, or Piano

Tuition: 

  • FREE
Students are required to maintain good practice habits, keep up with class instruction, and attend end of semester Recognition Recital Parties.
If your student is interested in joining the Meadowlark Music Program its FREE! Simply fill out the “Meadowlark Registration Form” below. **RECENTLY UPDATED: All forms are now filled out in the one form button below**
Meadowlark Registration Form

Jam and write music together in CU’s Co-Create Labs!

In collaboration with CU Boulder SoundWorks, a concert series featuring new student compositions, CMA and MMP will work with CU student facilitators and engage in workshop topics, such as jam session, songwriting, and beginning improvisation. Whether students are beginners or experienced performers, exercises, such as ostinatos formed from the rhythmic content of students’ names, are designed to highlight everyone’s unique talents and abilities. Everyone enters as a teacher and learner.

Email Nicholas Felder at [email protected] for more information.

Chamber Music Academy – jam and songwriting session

Meadowlark Music Program – beginning improvisation session and picture/graphic scores (using an outline of pictures and symbols to describe musical occurrences)

Thank you to our sponsors:

Community Foundation of Northern Colorado:
Fort Collins Community Fund
Joseph J. and Alice A. Zink Fund
Editha Todd Leonard Trust Fund

HPE

Engle Family Foundation

Fan Foundation

Kathleen Winder 

Rotary Club Fort Collins 

Sutherland Family Foundation