Great building for music education and music appreciation
False advertising.
I have been to the Moody Music Hall twice in the past few years to watch my children at MPA. The inside and outside of Moody Music Hall is beautiful but the courtyard outside is in need of some upkeep! It looks like when it rains it washes a lot of the mulch from around the building down into the low spot in the middle of the courtyard.
Beautiful location, very nice, was here for MS honor band.
I HATDD PLAYING
Shocco Springs Baptist Conference Center
Address: 1314 Shocco Springs Rd, Talladega, AL 35160 , Água Branca , Alabama , United States
Staff members were professional and kind. Rooms and facility were sparkling clean and well maintained. Sound system in the Bagley center conference room was great. The lake view is beautiful.
Shocco Springs is an amazing camp center. I had the ability to go when our youth camp decided to come for summer camp. The camp is run through Student Life Camps and has an amazing group of staff and individuals that help the camp run. The guys in our group including me stayed in Mount Moriah, which is one of the many lodging buildings available to stay in. The rooms were clean and fresh bedding was provided, although we brought our own. I opted to use the provided bedding. The rooms had two bunk beds for a maximum capacity of 4 people. The lower level of Mount Moriah (we stayed in the top level–a two story building) has a nice little lobby area with some chairs and a couch. Some guys in our group thought it would be funny to take the couch upstairs and place it in front of our leader’s room. We returned the couch afterwards.
The rest of the camp was very beautiful and well kept. There were some lawn care professionals maintaining the grounds while we stayed.
The recreation area, known as the “Adventure Camp” was very nice. The pool was large enough for our group to comfortably play in, as well as others. A diving board added to the fun. The Tennis courts and Basketball courts were very nice and well kept, but you will need to bring your own tennis supplies, as they are not provided. There was a small “lake” on camp grounds, with paddle boarding, and some water inflatables. We did not decide to go on these as they cost an extortionate amount of $8 for 30 mins of play. Not worth it.
It would we worth nothing that everything is fairly spread apart and there are some very intense hills throughout, which took a toll on our legs and knees. Golf Cart rentals were available for $35/day, but we had too many in our group that it would cost too much, so we didn’t do it.
The food service was very nice, the food tasted adequate and there was always a variety to choose from. It is a self serve food line, so you are free to eat what you choose. A nice addition is the unlimited complimentary Soft Serve Ice Cream available at each and every meal.
Overall I have to say Shocco Springs is one of my favourite camps that I’ve been to. Sure it’s a little hot here in Alabama, but that’s fine. Just bring some water, and going swimming can help tremendously.
-Matthew J., age 15 at time of writing. Visited From June 1-5, 2016. Home town: Abilene, TX.
I always enjoy coming here for conferences. Beautiful area, comfortable rooms, students do a great job of keeping things clean and food ready.
I love this place.
I would give this center no stars if that option was available. They overbooked rooms and would not assist churches that had paid for a certain number of rooms. The rooms were full of black mold and every item I brought stayed wet all week including my blankets. Our boys rooms were also full of spiders and bed bugs.
As if the rooms were not enough the food was horrendous. Staff members were not extremely helpful or kind. I would not recommend this location to anyone.
School of Rock
Address: 6727 Dublin Center Dr, Dublin, OH 43017 , Água Branca , Alabama , United States
Awesome place for kids.. My son Sayf is a young star with the help of School of Rock Dublin.
What an awesome “music school” for kids and teens to learn to sing and play instruments…with others! Our society needs more opportunities for children and young adults to learn the life skill of collaboration and what better way than with music lessons? Where were you guys when I was raising my 3 musical girls in the Powell/Dublin area? Highly recommend.
Great program for kids. My daughter loves it and it has been a very positive experience from the beginning (3 years now).
Good and relaxed pace. I have a great instructor that makes it really enjoyable
Very personable and friendly teachers and staff! They make learning fun!!
The accessibility of the songs chosen for the kids to learn is great–high-energy, and very relatable. The staff is fun and approachable, and they clearly know their stuff.
(Disclaimer, this message could be perceived as a petty complaint but is my duty as a level 4 local guide to share my opinion. This is me taking my time to review this what I perceive to be a very underorganized. My experience does not come with taking lessons at the school of rock. It instead comes from the school of rock band performing at the same venue right before my band and taking 2 of our drums as we were packing up. It took me FOREVER to track these drums down and when it finally occured to me that perhaps another band might have taken them, I contacted SoR to find them accidentally brought back to the lesson location. Why do I feel like they were just going to keep them if i hadn’t called? I asked Hailey the secretary if we could have the drums delivered and she said no that we would have to pick them up. Um…? You stole our drums and were just going to keep them until someone claims them and picks them up? Nah.. After some teeth pulling I finally had the drums arranged to be delivered but dang, this company could really use some organization and lessons in customer service, or atleast to know that if you steal something from someone, its your responsibility to return it.
Spicer’s Music
Address: 2140 E University Dr K, Auburn, AL 36830 , Água Branca , Alabama , United States
Great shop. Greg knows his stuff and is super friendly and helpful!
Great music store that has a nice variety of guitars and accessories. It was a pretty lively place when I visited. They tuned up my old electric and it sounds great.
My son loves taking drum lessons there. It’s a special place and they have tons of instruments and all the gear you’d need of all varieties if you’re shopping around.
Pretty small store with the essentials needed to get by without having to drive all the way to guitar center.
Nice place
Very helpful staff. Nice store.
Friendly but limited selection
Less than fair.
Stoped in today to pick up some stuff.guy behind counter would not put his phone down to see if I needed any thing.
The University of Alabama
Address: Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 , Água Branca , Alabama , United States
This place is great! My daughter took an intro lesson to see what she thought. Being a teen she was nervous at first and hesitant to go. Came out of the building happy and excited. She loves her instructor and what’s she is learning. She would go every day if possible. They are professional, warm, fun, and friendly. My child loves this place!
They have a cool program where you can do lessons on your instrument or voice. And then, if you choose to you can join a band also which meets there weekly. You get to decide what level you sign up for. It’s been a huge hit with my kiddo! Wish I had signed my older child up years ago.
They offer a really great program and we are so happy a friend turned us on to it!
No one asked for this review- we are just that happy about it.
Just started and i already love it!
Was really good instructor was patient and no pressure at all will go back.
So I took my son for a trial run with a group of kids at this school last week on a Monday at the Madison Rd location, which he was so excited about, so he went in with (i forget her name..jenny?) and he was just excited about all the instruments, it was only him and another boy. I guess my son was too much for her because she said that he was not really focused on just one instrument and kind of all over the place and recommend Music Therapy because she is a music therapist and that an hour was too much for him, ( I was kind of shock and a little hurt that I didn’t even ask her any other questions, but said ok and left) but she didn’t recommend her services for a personal session or anything, so my husband called the next day and asked about the lady (the music therapist) that did the trial run with Aaron if she can call him back and recommend her services or if she has a referral. its been a little over a week and she has not returned his call. I also did tell them in the beginning he has a vision impairment) I just wish someone would of reached out and recommended something because my son loves music and he is not a bad kid.
School of Rock
Address: 5420 Deep Lake Rd Suite 1024, Oviedo, FL 32765 , Água Branca , Alabama , United States
We are early on with the School of Rock in Oviedo, but the staff has been awesome – they are responsive and happily answer all our many questions. My daughter loves it!
Our daughter started at School of Rock shortly after they opened at age 9, with no experience playing an instrument. Within just a couple of months she was playing the guitar and performing on stage. The School of Rock approach is amazing and gets the kids interested in playing and improving from day one. The experience and confidence gained in learning an instrument, working together in a group and being able to perform onstage is invaluable. The instructors are without a doubt the best in the area in my opinion. Their collective knowledge, experience and patience is a big reason for the kids success. Our daughter considers her friends and instructors at SOR as her second family and I have watched her confidence, personality and talents grow over these past few years because of this “second family”. Thanks to Wes, Adam, Ron, Will, Joe, Heather, and the rest of the School of Rock staff for everything you do.
My son receives his piano lessons at School of Rock. The school’s instructors are enthusiastic about teaching and that shows in just how well the child is learning. Music lessons can often seem like a chore to an active child, but Wes and his team make it more of a treat than a obligation. I strongly recommend School of Rock!
Great communication Wes handled a situation for me and we are very satisfied.
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Address: 1720 University Blvd, Birmingham, AL 35294 , Água Branca , Alabama , United States
Highlands was the nicest people before and after surgery
These guys saved my life. They never stopped checking on me. The physical therapist were two of the best.
Awesome time at UAB !!
Nice and pleasant
Nice people good food
The nurses and doctors are always so helpful ☺
While they are world renowned for cutting edge medicine and they are great at teaching they lack basic compassion. If You’re okay with no bedside manner and Luke warm care then this place is for you.
Need traffic, parking & purposeful guides for access, parking & feedback. Distracts from great medical system needed by community & state of Alabama .
This college town food joint has some good features about it. It’s relatively clean and the chicken fingers are pretty good. The prices are extremely high though and the proportions you get are small and the equal to the price you pay. The workers there all have an attitude and are all super sassy. Rolling of the eyes and annoyance facial expressions. Not just with one worker but with all of them. The staff needs to get an attitude check fast. So all in all, food was that bad, service was awful, and prices are really high, small proportions of food, and the food delivery was slow. The W.O.W. is named that because you say it after you eat the food and give the sassy workers all of your money. Like WOW, I can’t believe we ate here.
UAB Percussion
Address: Hulsey Center, 950 13th St S, Birmingham, AL 35205 , Água Branca , Alabama , United States