124 Main Street
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, B2X 1R9

Lesson Centre: Phone or Text (902) 496-6966

Store Phone: (902) 496-6996

Fax: (902) 496-7404

Lesson Centre Email: dartmouthlessons@long-mcquade.com

Store Email: dartmouth@long-mcquade.com

Lesson Centre Hours
Monday: 10am - 9:00pm
Tuesday: 10am- 9:00pm
Wednesday: 10am - 9:00pm
Thursday: 10am - 9:00pm
Fridays: 10am - 8:00pm
Saturdays: 9:00am - 5:00pm
Sunday: CLOSED

This Location Offers:

Online Lessons All Lessons

Private Lessons

Welcome to Dartmouth's largest music lesson centre located at 124 Main street, Dartmouth. We offer 15 spacious studios in house and our very own recital room. Our studios are equipped with state of the art keyboards and acoustic upright pianos as well as a Yamaha Concert Grand. We offer lessons in violin, viola, cello, all woodwind and brass, all styles piano, guitar (electric and acoustic), banjo, ukulele, bodhran, percussion and drumset.

Our Brass Teachers:

Joel Hughes McKay - brass, uke music lessons in Dartmouth

joel hughes mckay (brass, uke)

Registration Request

Online Lessons:

Teaching Style: classical, jazz

Teaching Day(s): Tuesday

Joel Hughes McKay is a professional musician and music teacher in the Halifax area. He studied extensively with Chalmers Doane, both privately and through his ukulele program; participated in Truro's Band program throughout middle and high school; and studied Jazz Trumpet at St. FX under Paul Tynan. He has a lot of knowledge and experience in music, and he is eager to pass that on to others.
Joel is $25 per half hour lesson.

John Lindsay-Botten - Voice, Piano, Brass music lessons in Dartmouth

john lindsay-botten (Voice, Piano, Brass)

Registration Request

Online Lessons:

Teaching Style: classical, jazz

Teaching Day(s): Monday

John has a Bachelors in Music in Voice from Mount Allison University and grade 8 Royal Conservatory of Music piano. John originally entered university on trombone but switched to voice after two years. He has sung both solo and chorally with the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, the Elora Festival Singers, Nathaniel Dett Chorale, Mississauga Choral Society, and the Toronto Jewish Folk Choir among others, and he took on the lead role of Pierre Elliott Trudeau in Vocalypse Productions’ presentation of G. E. Clarke and D.D. Jackson’s opera Trudeau: Long March/Shining Path. John has produced a CD of his own pop/adult compositions called ‘A Labour of Love’. He has been teaching music since 1994 and his rate for a half-hour private lesson is $27.