New music studio opens in Preston County

MASONTOWN, W.Va. (WBOY) – West Virginia Sound Foundry celebrated its grand opening with a ribbon chopping on November 17 in its location at 416 South Primary Avenue in Masontown.

The concept for the enterprise happened when a couple of pals got here collectively and needed to start out up one thing to advertise music and artwork in Preston County. Govt director Josh Salisbury mentioned that children have been concerned in sports activities and different actions, however there was a market lacking for the humanities for youngsters who have been focused on it domestically.

The brand new studio affords:

• Personal classes
• Starting band devices – guitar, base, drums, piano, ukulele, and voice classes
• Normal music schooling – instructing music relating to harmonies, regular beats, studying music, and publicity to devices
• Efficiency teams – bands who principally play rock music
• Homeschool outreach – normal music schooling.

“Music is such an enormous a part of my life and an enormous a part of my households’ lives, and , my son is a singer in one of many bands, and we simply take pleasure in that life, we take pleasure in that life-style of having the ability to have music and we needed to have the ability to share it with youngsters that perhaps wouldn’t have the chance to do it in any other case,” mentioned Salisbury.

The WV Sound Foundry has already had a couple of public and fundraising performances. They are going to be having one other efficiency on Dec. 17 in partnership with the Preston County Youth Middle. This efficiency will embody a combination of Christmas and rock music.

If focused on taking classes or a category, the brand new studio’s hours are based mostly on appointment by way of their website. Salisbury mentioned that they’re rather less costly than some Morgantown teams so that individuals within the space will wish to come out and provides it a strive.