Musician to teach ukulele, guitar at Community Center
The Community Center of La Cañada Flintridge has announced that musician and artist October Crifasi will teach ukulele and guitar lessons at the center, beginning next month. Her first series of lessons in November will be a three-week introductory course in ukulele for adults and teens. In January, guitar lessons will begin.
Crifasi believes everyone has a little music within them. Her formal training began at Walnut Hill School for the Arts in Massachusetts where, under the guidance of New England Conservatory alum Gloria Cullver-Jacobson, she learned flamenco and classical technique, and in sessions with Cliff Maddix of the Berklee School of Music she learned how to rock. She continued her formal education at Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, Iowa, where she studied rock and folk guitar, music theory and was chosen as the first student to teach guitar to the children of the Mt. Vernon community through the Music Department’s outreach program.
After graduation, she moved to Chicago and immersed herself in the local music scene playing and teaching around the city. Soon after she moved to Los Angeles, where she became a guitar instructor at Baxter Northrup Music. She has played solo shows at the Derby and the Hard Rock Café, participated in the music ensemble, KillSonic, for a series of sold-out performances at the REDCAT Theater and played at the Orange County Performing Arts Center in the Extreme Guitar Orchestra Festival.
In 2010, she founded Girls Guitar School in Sherman Oaks and created the Girls Guitar School Ensemble.
For information regarding this workshop and fall programs, visit the Community Center’s website at www.cclcf.org or contact or the main office at (818) 790-4353.
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Carol Cormaci, carol.cormaci@latimes.com
Twitter: @CarolCormaci
