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We support  high quality music education, performances and instruments for students on the Central Oregon Coast.

Our dedicated team includes music teachers Mike Freel, Karin Teisl, Gwen Lahti, principals Nick Lupo, Becca Bostwick and Sandy Mummey, LCSD Director, Majalise Tolan, Lincoln City Cultural Center ED Niki Price, Chuck Feist, Director of Endowment, Christine Tell, Director of Operations and our Director of the Music is Instrumental Board, Mark Sanders.

In 2014, the Oregon Community Foundation awarded a Studio to School Project to Lincoln City Schools, Siletz Bay Music Festival and Lincoln City Cultural Center to return music to schools.  We created a sequential music program in grades K - 12 ~ building from one teacher with 140 students in 2014, to three teachers with 1,250 students in 2018. Music is Instrumental was founded in 2018 to sustain and expand this effort to other schools on the Central Oregon Coast.