As Atlanta schools make cuts to music education, a local Boys and Girls Club is opening a new, fully outfitted music studio that anyone up to age 18 can use.
The studio in the Joseph B. Whitehead Boys and Girls Club has electric and acoustic instruments and digital recording equipment, said Philip Gilley, CEO of nonprofit Notes for Notes. Notes for Notes is a California-based group that has opened similar studios across the country.
The studio is open to all, but users are asked to become Boys and Girls Club members.
Gilley said the Notes for Notes studio was in the works before the APS music cuts.
“It’s just painfully common now how many schools cut music first,” he said. “To hear that Atlanta’s now part of that trend is very unfortunate.”
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