Are you ready to rock? The School of Rock, an international chain of music schools that teaches students how to play and perform like rockstars, is ready. It’s opening its newest location in Clearwater.
The new branch is just down the street from Ruth Eckerd Hall at 1530 McMullen Booth Road and offers immersive, performance-based music lessons to students of all ages and skill levels. Students as young as three years old receive weekly one-on-one instruction in guitar, bass, drums, keyboards or vocals and participate in group band rehearsals that culminate in live performances at real venues.
The School of Rock Clearwater is owned by franchisees Jayme Neto and Marina Coelho — a husband and wife team who first discovered the gig-based music program as parents when their children enrolled in lessons at a St. Petersburg-based branch. Before launching their new Clearwater School of Rock branch, Neto spent more than two decades in broadcast television, more recently as general manager of a Telemundo station owned by NBC Universal in Tampa…