Blog posts

• November 01, 2023 Creating a Feeling of Family and Community - Let's Make Music Together
  

  Music Playing Makes our Families and Communities Stronger

  David Leeuw with his Family, Abraham van den Tempel, by 1671, Dutch painting, oil on canvas. The wealthy merchant David Leeuw and his family making music as an expression of harmonious family life.

• October 15, 2023 Philanthropy - Golden Music Gives Back to Our Community
  

  Since our humble beginning in 1996 in a 500 sq. ft. space that was a meat locker to our now 30,000 sq ft building that houses our retail, repair shop, music school, Denver Musician's Assoc., Golden Music has strived to donate our money, experience, time, talent and skills to help the Colorado music community, in particular, the public school music programs.  We give back 10% of our gross revenue each year!

• October 07, 2023 5 Reasons Your Child (And You!) Will Love West Colfax Music Academy!
  

   It is a known and widely studied fact that music education in children leads to measurable benefits, including increased literacy and therefore improved academic results. 

  West Colfax Academy is all about your student! Your child can choose from a long list of instruments to learn to play, or study voice and singing. 

  

• October 01, 2023 Signs Your Child Is Ready For Lessons
  

  A child often conveys readiness for music lessons with physical expression. This is often starts with banging on pots and pans, tapping on couches, pretending a briefcase is a piano or that a notebook is a keyboard. 

  The next sign that your child is ready for lessons is usually through verbal expression. The child may tell you outright that they want to start playing an instrument or taking voice lessons. Once the physical and verbal interest is there, it’s up to you as a parent to get the ball rolling.