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Help design a Mom and Pop Music Store for Aurora!
With the recent closure of Flesher Hinton and the Buckingham Sq. Mall, Aurora is in need of a mom and pop music store. Private Music Teachers need an inexpensive place to teach, kids need a place to let loose and call their own to learn/practice and share their talents; kids need to touch/feel/smell the sheet music...not just buy it off the internet! And local strip malls have to welcome music stores over other businesses. Music teaching and a mom and pop music stores should be a center part of any community like a bank, church, hospital, or a library. How do we keep mom and pop music stores alive in our communities? I have been designing "MikesMusic" for several years now with my evening Project Managment students at Westwood college. The problem right now is that retail space is way to expensive in Aurora. Public Music Teachers are Heros in my mind keeping their bands as good as they are without one or two supportive mom & pop community music stores supplying private space for private teachers. What do you think? How would you design your perfect Mom and Pop music store? As a part-time teacher of trumpet and music theory, I give away more private lessons then my wife want's me to every year. The free lessons go to kids who are good trumpet players and have no other access to private lessons. Aurora also needs more jazz spots. [See my related article about free jazz jams at the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, March 5, 2007 article on YourHub.com]

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Keep a Music Store Alive for our Community!
Contributed by: Michael W. Timson   on 3/11/2007

I have been a Private Music Instructor since 2000 in the Aurora area. I have taught at Flesher Hinton at the Aurora store, the Music & Arts stores in Littleton and the one on Broadway. Flesher Hinton closed in February and I don't teach at M&A anymore because they are not technically a 'Mom&Pop" community music store.

I believe locally ownedMom and Pop music stores are essential to any community. Like a church, library, school, or hospital.

I am an Accountant / Auditor/ MBA for University of Colorado at the Fitzsimons campus and in addtion to my day job I have been a Music Instructor and an Adjunct Instructor at Westwood college. This combination of my talents help me come up with a simulated projectfor Project Management students at Westwood.

The project was called 'Mike's Music". The studentsenrolled in my Project Management evening class had to design a Mom & Pop music store in less then10 weeks. The store had to have a 'Parent Attraction' as well as the normal music store things like practice studios, sheet music, horn supplies, etc.

Mike's Music project students came up with great ideas and concepts. The one thing that was lacking is how to implement it in the community and be succesful for the long run.

How would you design the perfect community music store?
How would you attract venture capital to keep it alive for the community?
How do you.... many more questions...

Let's design the best Music Store for Aurora....which needs one now!

Call me if you like to discuss further....see my profile.

Also come visit and chat at one of the free jazz sessions at the Anschutz Outpatient Pavilion. See related article on March 5, 2007


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Submitted By: Michael W. Timson
posted on 3/11/2007 @ 9:29:18 AM
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Le't keep a mom & pop music store honk'n in Aurora!
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