February is the month of Valentine's Day, and Michael Silva is here to bring a joyful tune for lovebirds everywhere with "Happy Together" by Garry Bonner and Alan Gordon.

Click the button below if you want to learn more about this song or get the sheet music/tab to play along.

This month we're bringing you not one, but TWO songs! Miyan Grasso is performing "Etude no.7 (Introduction and Dance)," composed by his father Matthew Grasso. Click the button below to learn more about the song.

When: Monday, February 14th at 8PM

Where: Zoom

Link: https://zoom.us/j/92219522992

Meeting ID: 922 1952 2992

Passcode: 517555

Want even more music? Sacramento Orchestra director and guitarist extraordinaire Sean O'Connor has partnered with the Fremont Cultural Arts Council to bring us a free Zoom concert!

Click the link above to join the concert on the day of the event.

Click the button below if you want to learn about other programs offered by the Fremont Cultural Arts Council.

We have some exciting news about the Sacramento Community Orchestra:

We're returning to The Clara! Thanks to the generosity of the community, we will be holding rehearsals in The Clara starting this season.

This season also introduces our new Advanced Orchestra. This orchestra features more complex parts for those orchestra members who crave a greater challenge than what was offered in our Intermediate Orchestra. No audition is required and members can attend both orchestras if they wish, so what are you waiting for? Click the button below to let director Sean O'Connor know you want to join!

The following is a testimonial from a recent enrollee in Guitars4Vets (Names removed to protect privacy):

I graduated from the Guitar4Vets program at the Concord Vet Center in December 2018. I was fortunate in that I was able to participate in unofficial instruction and practice what I did know with a couple of Vet Center groups: Concord and Martinez. I started learning how play chords. And the bug hit me: I really wanted to learn how to play the instrument well.

When I heard about your program, offering graduates of the Guitar4Vets program an opportunity to formally continue learning the guitar, I jumped at the chance.

I was looking to learn only one thing and that was how to finger-pick the strings. I asked to be teamed with a local instructor because he mentioned fingerpicking in his bio.

Well, I couldn't be more fortunate than to have him as my instructor. The man is so well trained in the guitar (and other instruments), he is extremely professional, very relaxed and extremely patient. I'm on my second set of 10 lessons with him. And in that time, I have learned to play what I thought I knew in more than one way and better. I have also learned that I have a long way to go because there are many things I don't know. But the things I am very grateful to him for are the following: learn to relax; continually practice the basics; practice all that I learn; build up my speed; and gain my self-confidence. I have such respect for his talent and for him as a person that I hate not being prepared when I meet with him for a lesson. He is a class act.

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