Handmade Music School

HANDMADE MUSIC SCHOOL:
The Handmade Music School strives to cultivate and strengthen community through experiences in music, dance, art,
and food rooted in our Appalachian traditions. 

HELP US SHARE THE MUSIC!
We are dedicated to teaching old time, bluegrass, and traditional music and dance from Floyd County, Virginia, and throughout the Blue Ridge Mountains. The philosophy of The Handmade Music School is to “hand down” the songs and dances from the teacher to the student, phrase-by-phrase, and step by step -- the way it’s been taught in the Blue Ridge Mountains for centuries.

Your donations will fund operations for the Handmade Music School, provide support for our weekly Youth Stringband Program and Youth Get Together summer camps, and will help support our general operating costs and Share The Music Scholarship Fund. Your donations will help support our team in building upon existing opportunities and creating new vibrant music and dance opportunities. It's our mission to welcome everyone into the Handmade Music School community without finances getting in the way, and also to support the musicians and teachers that make these opportunities possible. 

In addition to youth programming at HMS, we are designed to serve everyone from 0 - 100 and currently have programming that serves all of these ages from Joy Jammers to our Harmonic Heritage project, we love to invite people into our circle of learning and we provide scholarships for all ages and people from our community and around the world.