Welcome to the Uptown Music Collective - Williamsport PA

The Uptown Music Collective is a nonprofit School of Music located at 848 West Fourth Street in Williamsport PA. The school specializes in providing music students of all ages with a modern music education that still remains firmly grounded in proven traditional music instruction principles. The Uptown Music Collective provides high quality private lessons and private instruction for students interested in voice lessons, guitar lessons, bass lessons, drum lessons, percussion lessons, keyboard lessons or piano lessons with the best teachers and music instructors in the area. The school also offers a variety of classes including music theory, ear training, songwriting, arranging, improvisational theory and more as well as an extensive series of workshops in a wide variety of styles, including: rock, blues, jazz, funk and Latin music. The Uptown Music Collective serves all of central Pennsylvania, so whether you're from South Williamsport, Lewisburg, Montgomery, Montoursville, Jersey Shore, Lock Haven, Hughesville, Muncy, Bloomsburg or anywhere else in between,and want to sing, learn to rip on the guitar, pound on the drum set, slap the bass or play the piano, the Uptown Music Collective is where you want to be.

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Orchestral Rock Project 2
Next Stop 42nd and Broadway
Young Bloods To Take Part in the International Blues Challenge
Uptown Video of the Week - Orchestral Rock Project - Roll Over Beethoven

ORCHESTRAL ROCK PROJECT 2 - JANUARY 7TH!

On January 7, 2012 the Uptown Music Collective and the Williamsport Symphony Youth Orchestra teamed up once again to present the Orchestral Rock Project II. The concert took place at the Community Arts Center in Williamsport and featured highlights from last year’s performance, alongside new arrangements of classics from Fiona Apple, Pink Floyd, Regina Spektor and Metallica.

A year ago, students from the Uptown Music Collective and the Williamsport Symphony Youth Orchestra took the stage together for the first time to present the Orchestral Rock Project. That highly successful performance, funded through a grant from the Williamsport-Lycoming Community Foundation, featured the orchestra and rock groups from the Collective powering their way through orchestral rock classics like the Moody Blue's I'm Just a Singer in a Rock and Roll Band and The Beatles Strawberry Fields Forever. It also forged an enduring relationship between the two youth centered organizations that has culminated in a retreat/concert together this past summer, as well as this recent concert.

42ND AND BROADWAY: A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY BROADWAY MUSICALS

On December 22 and 23 2011 the Uptown Music Collective joined forces with the Community Theatre League to present 42nd and Broadway: A Review of Contemporary Broadway Musicals. The shows were presented on the stage of the Community Theatre League to two capacity crowds and were very well recieved.

The performancesl featured Uptown Music Collective students taking the stage alongside young people who regularly participate in Community Theatre League and Act Up performances, to present this first collaboration between these two organizations.

The show featured performances of pieces from a wide variety of recent “rock based” Broadway Musicals. Some of the musicals featured include; Wicked, Next To Normal, Spring Awakening, Tick Tick Boom, Rent, Legally Blonde and Jersey Boys. The vocalists, a mix of UMC students and CTL regulars, were accompanied by a band comprised of Uptown Music Collective students who will add the necessary rock edge to this contemporary performance.

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The Cast picture for 42nd and Broadway

INTERNATIONAL BLUES CHALLENGE PROJECT RAISES $4800 OF IT'S $6000 GOAL.

Thanks to a successful fundraising concert at Jeremiah's above the Bullfrog and generous donations from the Billtown Blues Association, The Hartman Group and private donors, the Uptown Music Collective is only $1200 from its goal. More concerts are planned through January and donations are still being accepted. For more information visit the following pages.

The International Blues Challenge Project

The Young Blood Blues Band

Donate to the International Blues Challenge Project

Uptown Video of the Week

This past summer students from the Uptown Music Collective joined students from around the county in a Orchestra retreat held at Susquehanna University. There the students practiced songs together and took workshops from several music professors. The event culminated in a concert. Below is Shannon Cantor performing Regina Spector's Us.

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Coming Up!

Student Performances

Tomorrow!!! Youngbloods: Farewell, We're On Our Way to Memphis Fundraising Concert: Saturday January 28 at the Community Arts Center Capitol Lounge 7pm

FEBRUARY 11 - THE PURPLE HEART PROJECT: A BENEFIT FOR WOUNDED WARRIORS