About Musack-Supported Music Programs
Musack started in Nantucket, MA, and continues to serve Nantucket while also contributing to schools, after-school lessons, scholarships, orphanages, and more around the world! Scroll down or click below to learn more about each program and to see photos and videos:
One of our latest programs in Kenya
Nantucket
Musack continues to expand right in Nantucket with guitar and drum lessons at the Nantucket Boys and Girls Club, podcast and rap programs at the Nantucket Community Music Center, Nantucket Lighthouse School, and sponsors plays like The Little Mermaid at Nantucket High. Musack also provides scholarships to NHS graduates attending music college.
Kenya
In 2025, Musack partnered with We’re Loud Africa to fund the delivery of instruments to Anidan Children’s Home in Kenya. The We’re Loud team ran workshops for 300+ kids with the new instruments.
New Bedford, MA
After partnering with Rancid on various fundraising initiatives, like our Rock n’ Roll Carnival, Mr. O’Leary at New Bedford High School found us through one of our posts. We donated instruments since theirs were falling apart, and the kids were so passionate that Mr. O’Leary started a brand new after-school Rock Band program with even more instruments from us!
Uganda
Musack is proud to support Ugandan orphanage Happy Hüt Sanctuary’s first music program with guitars and keyboards, plus more coming soon!
Native American Southwest
Musack provides guitars and rums on Native American Reservations, including Acoma, Apache, and the Native American Music Fund on the Navajo Reservation. We’ve also dropped guitars at the Santa Fe Indian School, a public boarding school serving 19 pueblos. In 2024, Musack also funded a guitar clinic for young Native musicians at a Merciless Savages show in New Mexico!
Appalachia
Musack has been supporting a program at Folk School JAM in North Carolina for guitar and fiddle since 2016. Some of the kids wanted banjos to express themselves, too, so 2017 brought new banjo players in Appalachia! We’ve continued supplying new instruments throughout the years and recently just started supporting their Georgia location!
Pine Ridge
Musack is happy to now help empower Lakota girls at the Anpo Wicahpi Pine Ridge Girls’ School! Musack provides guitars and keyboards to the girls in Pine Ridge, SD!
Compton + Los Angeles + Fire Response
Musack has supported schools with instruments throughout LA. We’ve helped Whaley Middle School rock out with a drumline and donated guitars and an instructor to start after-school guitar classes at Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies (LACES). We’ve supported two Larchmont Charter School locations, Citizens of the World Charter Schools, and the LA expansion of Three O’Clock Rock after school programs. We offer scholarships for each session of Kid Row band lessons! In 2025 and continuing into 2026, Musack has also provided instruments for familes and scools (Altadena Arts Magnet & Pasadena Waldorf) affected by the 2025 wildfire in Altadena.
El Salvador
In 2019, we traveled to El Salvador along with Glasswing and One Kid One World and delivered guitars to a school being built there!
Oakland
3 O’Clock Rock is an after school music program for kids and adults in Oakland, CA with classes in analog recording, drums, guitar, bass, keyboards, and even cartooning and film production. Musack provides scholarships for kids and teens to be able to rock in this program! And new in 2020 - the Musack sponsored Time Out for Fun with Francis Lau! Francis is a student from Three O’Clock Rock passing on his keyboard skills and love for Devo in this new video series!
Haiti
Also new in 2016 - making music happen in Haiti! We've recently donated guitars, pianos, and an instructor to the Haitian American Caucus: Haiti to create rockers out of the students and orphans there. We’ve also begun a concert band collaboration between Musack and 610 Project!
Ohio
Musack is proud to support Chillicothe high school students with instruments for their marching band!
Oaxaca
Musack is proud to provide instruments for St. Cecilia Music School to help make music happen for low-income k-12 kids in Mexico!
Michigan
After running a fundraising campaign on the Green Day tour, a young Green Day fan in Forest Hills, Michigan found us and had his teacher reach out to replace the drums at their high school! Shortly after, Denby High School needed some instruments, and we partnered with Lead Guitar to make it happen!
Alaska
In April of 2017, Musack braved the cold to deliver guitars to the Galena Interior Learning Academy. Galena is completely isolated and tiny and the kids come from smaller isolated native villages. GILA is a public school, with tough budget decisions to make for funding their art programs, but in a place without businesses that is so isolated, music is extra important... so Musack stepped in.
Chattanooga
Musack has been partnering with the Songbirds Foundation in 2017. We provide the guitars and they teach lessons to kids in Children's Hospital of Erlanger and the YMCA Chattanooga. Musack has since donated 400+ guitars to Songbirds’ expansion into Hamilton County and Nashville public schools.
Kentucky
Musack partnered with Stidham Old Time Music Association to fund a “Pick and Bow” program for grades 5-12 at Martin County High School!
Bahamas
Musack has provided instruments to Every Child Counts in March Harbor, Bahamas for their Jam Session/Camp program!
Tampa
When we heard about Lee Elementary burning down in a fire caused by Hurricane Irma aftermath, we wanted to help replenish their music department by delivering new recorders and guitars!
What's Next?
We're always on the lookout for places where we can empower kids with a creative voice and always raising the funds to make that happen. If you know of a place where there are kids in need, tell us! If you want to help us make music happen, donate here!