BANDS

Join a band this school year! Youth (ages 8-18) take the individual skills and techniques learned in private lessons to the next level. Want to rock out on the big stage? Students are matched together into bands based on musical preferences, instrumentation, scheduling availability, and age. Let us know if you'd like to be in the same band as a friend! Bands choose what songs to learn (or write!) and have performance opportunities throughout the year at local venues, events, & festivals, including our Resurgam Festival in June. Playing in a band is an incredible opportunity to rock out with other students and grow through music.

WHEN

  • Your band will be scheduled on a day and time that works for you and your bandmates.

  • Weekly 75m rehearsals are held afterschool & evenings M-F during the school year. Click here for the 2024-25 Rehearsal Calendar!

WHERE

  • Rehearsals are held at our 144 Fore St. location in Portland.

TUITION

  • Monthly tuition for our Portland bands is $145.

  • Need-based scholarships available - please inquire!

  • The annual registration fee is $60. This fee covers registration for all MAMM programs for anyone in your household during the 2024-25 school year.

PERFORMANCES: Click here for Performance FAQs!

Performance opportunities occur throughout the school year. Here are our confirmed 2024-25 events so far:

  • Porch Fest: Sunday 9/8/24 in Deering Center (Open Stage)

  • Rock & Bowl: Sunday 10/6/24 at Bayside Bowl

  • Ghoul of Rock: Sunday 10/27/24 at One Longfellow Square

  • Chords For Kids: Saturday 11/23/24 at Aura

  • Rock of (All) Ages: Friday 1/17/25 at SPACE Gallery

  • Rock & Bowl: Sunday 2/23/25 at Bayside Bowl

  • Resurgam Festival: Sunday 6/8/25 in Ocean Gateway

  • Additional spring events TBA

BANGOR STUDENTS, Click here for Bangor band info!

ADULT STUDENTS, you can join a band too! Click here for adult band info.

Bangor MAMM band on stage at the Bangor Arts Exchange

MAMM matches students of similar interests and abilities and teaches individual instrumentalists how to work together to make music as a group.

A drummer under pink stage lights with futuristic glasses

Give the gift of music instruction! MAMM gift certificates can be purchased here in any amount and used towards tuition for any MAMM program.

What is it like to be in a MAMM band? Click below to see our full lineup of MAMM bands and their recent performances: