Beginning in March 1997, Carrboro Music Studios has maintained our goal to provide a variety of musical programs that enrich the developing musicians of Carrboro and Chapel Hill. In those five plus years, our instructors have taught one-on-one lessons on piano, guitar, drums, bass, violin, mandolin, banjo, voice, and flute. With our current staff of sixteen instructors we are able to offer lessons everyday of the week and at times that hopefully fit a students already busy schedule. 
     Chris Seagle  founded Carrboro Music Studios along with the help of local blues legend Armand Lenchek and drummer Frank Worrell. Coming from different musical backgrounds and styles, together they have built a team of players who have studied at Berklee College of Music, Saint Lawrence University, UNC- Chapel Hill, the Musicians Institute, UNC-Wilmington, NC Central, the Interlochen Arts Academy, Dartmouth College, and Columbia University. This talented group works as a team to help give students exposure to many different perspectives as they progress on their musical journey.

     What keeps Carrboro Music Studios continuously growing and building new relationships with community musicians? Variety for starters--with ten guitar instructors on our team we are able to draw from a rich talent pool by providing students with instructors who best address the students style, interest, and personality. Carrboro Music Studios has instructors available to help students learn rock, jazz, classical, blues, bluegrass, and many other styles of music.  Communication between instructors not surprisingly builds better instructors! In conventional music instruction models, a student would see an instructor at the instructor's home. This has in the past created rivalry between musicians who probably had more in common than they did to fight about. To avoid this antiquated model of solitary instructor mentality, we brought the instructors together and continue to build cooperative teaching environments.

     The old model also prevented students from seeing other musicians in training except when they passed in the living room of the instructor. At Carrboro Music Studios, we offer a variety of different instrumental lessons simultaneously in our five studios on any given day. Each student and their families can interact with a diverse group of instrumentalist on any given day. This can help young players appreciate the progress and struggles that can occur in the study of music. As players grow, Carrboro Music Studios offers students an opportunity to work with different instructors and new ideas in the familiar environment of the Carrboro location. It is not uncommon for teenage students to take interest in a new style of music and begin lessons with a different instructor who specializes in that style after working with one instructor for several months or even years. So you can see how the variety of instructors at Carrboro Music Studios is really able to serve the changing needs of our students.

     Carrboro Music Studios location on Main Street in Carrboro is easy to get to as compared to some residential address. And with proximity to almost every business in Carrboro, parents can often have one, two, or more children take music lessons on different instruments at the same time while they make a round of stops to knock out errands.

     In our newly renovated foyer, Carrboro Music Studios is happy to announce the birth of the Carrboro Music Studios Revolving Gallery. The current exhibit is a series of paintings by local musician and artist Shannon O'Connor. The exhibit will run through May 1.

     Our current staff is currently accepting students for electric guitar, piano, drum, bass guitar, acoustic guitar, violin, and classical guitar.