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Blue Bear in the SF Bay Guardian
Blue Bear's Band Workshops are a winner in the Bay Guardian's Best of the Bay 2011 issue!

Best Ready-Made Rock Band
"The Byrds drawled it best: So you wanna be a rock 'n' roll star? Then listen now, to what I say. Thanks Jim McGuinn, we'll take it from here. Or rather, Blue Bear School of Music's band workshops will. The school sets groups of about seven beginner-level musicians to practice cover songs (genres range from rock to country) for three months with a very patient teacher before they perform at Café Du Nord or Bottom of the Hill. Just don't let it go to your head."

Blue Bear in the San Francisco Chronicle
Blue Bear Live VI featured in Datebook's weekly entertainment picks.

Blue Bear in the Oakland Tribune and San Jose Mercury News
Blue Bear Live VI featured in weekly entertainment guide.

Blue Bear in 7x7 Magazine
7x7 featured Blue Bear in the article "Where to Learn to Play Music in SF."

Blue Bear Honored by the City of San Francisco
Blue Bear School of Music was presented with a Certificate of Honor by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on February 24, 2009. The Board commended Blue Bear for its ongoing efforts in bringing quality, affordable music education to diverse communities throughout San Francisco.

Blue Bear on MSNBC
Blue Bear is highlighted in a story about educators using Wii Music in the classroom. Read the article >>

Blue Bear - "Making Beautful Music"
A great article from FMC Monthly, published by Fort Mason Center, Blue Bear's San Francisco headquarters since 1978. Read the article >>

Blue Bear in 7x7 Magazine
7x7 featured Blue Bear in their annual Best of the City issue!

Best Making of the Band
"You're just as likely to see a preschool percussionist as a baby-boomer bassist emerge from the Blue Bear School of Music's bustling Fort Mason Center headquarters, where jamming is key and age ain't nothin' but a number. The nonprofit community school has been rocking out since 1971, attracting thousands of kids and would-be professional musicians for an array of affordable private and group classes. We're huge fans of the quarterly nighttime gigs around town, where you'll find gathered the unlikeliest of onstage bandmates (think: middle-aged engineer-mandolin-player alongside 20-something blues-crooning barista.) A bonus? The concerts double as fundraisers for Blue Bear's [STAR] Schools That Aspire to Rock program, which provides free classes to SF's public-school students." Read the article online >>

Blue Bear on CBS 5
In one of her final on-air interviews before her retirement, renowned KPIX journalist Barbara Rodgers talks to Blue Bear Executive Director Kevin Marlatt about the school and the Blue Bear Live III benefit. Watch the video >>