New to the group

[bbobcola]

Hi I'm Bobby.
3 months new to BA after an 8 month backpacking excursion through Mexico and South America. It's been great but now I'm trying to make it work here in BA. At the moment I'm teaching English to children within the province. I love it, but would love to teach some music here too. I have a music performance degree and taught music and played with various orchestras when I was living in Florida.
(I saw some of you were looking for teachers, but unfortunately I play the woodwinds and the harp so I wouldn't be much help with guitar. Of course if anyone needs any theory lessons though, just let me know!)
Anyway, I'm really excited to learn more about BA and the language and culture and everything really so hope to be in contact with you all!

 

[elhombresinnombre]

Welcome! I'm not sure whether you want to teach music for the pleasure of it or because you need to earn money and want to do it that way. I'm not sure either if you are working en blanco o en negro so just consider these as thoughts to develop any way that suits.

The city's music schools employ salaried music teachers to provide free music education. There's a constant demand for woodwind but the concert harp is very rarely played. Whether you have the requisites to become a salaried woodwind teacher or whether they can make imaginative suggestions about teaching harp, I don't know but I do suggest visiting one or two of the centres (http://www.buenosaires.gov.ar/areas/educacion/niveles/primaria/escuelas.php?menu_id=19886 ) and chatting to the centre heads to see what happens. Fiddle around on YouTube and Facebook with the data you pick up (above) if you want to find out more about those music centres

In Welsh Patagonia the Welsh harp is once again being played with enthusiasm; in Paraguay devotion to the Paraguayan harp is such that in that country there's a flourishing harp-making industry to meet the local demand. Both are well worth at least a visit.

If you would be interested in volunteering in Paraguay, there is lots of music education happening under the auspices of the Santa Maria Education Fund. We recently bought two more (Paraguayan) harps for our students and string and woodwind teaching is developing. Gap year type projects usually charge a fee to volunteers: all SMEF asks is that all volunteers pay their own way because all the money the charity raises is spent directly on the students. Google Santa Maria Education Fund and apply to them directly or PM me with your details and I'll happily pass them along.

If there's anything else you think I might be able to answer - just ask

 

[bbobcola]

wow thank you so much! i wasn't even expecting that type of info.. i'll definitely check into it.. of course i need the money but music is my passion so any sort of teaching or playing would be amazing... thanks again