St. John's Episcopal Church Indio

THE CHILDREN’S MUSIC PROGRAM/ LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE at St. John’s Episcopal Church has grown from it’s beginning 7 years ago.

As a multicultural program, We provide free guitar, piano, voice and drums to children 5 to 15. Guitar and piano takes them through fundamentals and beyond. We loan guitars, ukuleles and keyboards to students who are unable to provide their own. Performances of our music we learn occur four times a year and are always great family events.

“Folklorico & Guitars for Children” is an important enrichment to current free music classes offered at St. John’s Episcopal Church in downtown Indio. St. John’s is a “Mission Church” serving families in the Eastern Coachella Valley with multi-cultural programs celebrating diversity. Demographics for the City of Indio show 11,000 families with children under the age of 18; 67% are Hispanic and 85% of the school-aged children are classified as economically disadvantaged by the local school districts. In Thermal, 98% are Hispanic, over 50% of the students are English-language learners and 94% are classified as economically disadvantaged.