Our goal is to provide high quality instruction for community music-makers of all ages featuring motivating and kind teachers in fun and interesting settings and situations.  We aim to grow a region of great music makers along the coast of Maine and beyond.  

Since we launched our education program in 2023 we’ve had over 750 enrollments in our programs and people keep coming back for more fun.

Groups meet once a week in Blue Hill, Belfast, Rockland or Deer Isle, September through June. 
Camps meet for a week or weekend in the summer and mostly in Blue Hill.   You can register for both below.

Our Magic Formula
Our magic formula is to provide group lessons and ensembles at half the price -or less- of what a private lesson would cost.  
The inspiration of working together in a group provides motivation, accountability with your peers, and a chance to practice see-do-teach. 
This community learning model is based on the experience many of our teachers have growing up learning and teaching in here in Maine.
And we have seen it work! We think it’s a great way to get a person – and a whole community – making music.

Fees
Private lessons are typically $60/hour or more and are entirely planned and given by teachers when they have availability. 
Most weekly classes are about $30/week and run for 1 hour.  
With multi-class and multi-student discounts discounts, some people are able to take classes for about $21/week/class.
If you take advantage of the early bird 10% discount that can knock it down even more.  

We are proud of being able to offer inspiring, relatively affordable music-learning for folks, and a key is that we’re a nonprofit organization and raise money each year from individuals and businesses to help make all of this happen.  We want to thank you now for investing in classes here. It has made a huge difference in many people’s lives, from teachers to staff to the students themselves who are growing and improving- audibly – every week.

We do have a 1-time registration fee when you register for classes, which is the same, $25 no matter how many classes you’re registering for.
This helps cover the time and effort we put into managing the backend of class admin.

Discounts & Scholarships
We offer discounts for multiple-class and multiple-student families, as well as scholarships.  Discounts will automatically be applied by Jackrabbit, our registration system.

Please email bennett@bagaducemusic.org to request a scholarship – No one will be turned away due to lack of funds.

How You’ll Be Charged:
This is a two step process.  First, we ask that you add your credit card to our registration system “Jackrabbit” when you sign up. Then, once we determine we have enough people to run the class, we will charge you for the entire semester (after applying all of the discounts.)

If you want to be charged monthly please email Lydia@bagaducemusic.org to let us know.  We’ll charge you the first week of each month.  Please take note that you are committing to the entire semester and will be charged each month for 1/3 of the total fee.  

Trial Period/Drops
You may try out a class for two weeks!  If it doesn’t suit you we will return the rest of the course fee to you minus a cancellation fee.
If you want to sit in on a class for a week with no charge, feel free to drop by and check it out.

Now is the Time to Register!
If you or your family are interested in any of the classes listed below, click on the “ENROLL” link to sign up today.