April 26’ Newsletter
Welcome to the April 2026 Newsletter from Snake River Strings Co., Idaho’s Best Music Lessons three years running!
Spring is almost here, and we have so many exciting things happening across our locations! From celebrating our Student of the Month, our upcoming spring festival competition (registration is now open!!), our first-ever all-teacher showcase on April 4th, and the last month of our fun winter practice challenge!
🌟 Student of the Month: Emerson Nilsson (Ammon)
Emerson Nilsson has loved his experience so far at Snake River Strings. He took drum lessons at a few other locations prior to this, but has really excelled here! He’s enjoyed playing different styles of music and appreciates his teacher, Casey, with all his encouragement. He also became interested in learning the bass guitar and decided to build one in order to learn how it worked. After completing that build, he decided to build an electric guitar completely from scratch with wood he found in our barn. He enjoyed making the complex pickups and headstock to make it unique and truly his own.
In addition to music, Emerson enjoys blacksmithing, reading, camping, and anything hands-on. He’s the second oldest of five siblings. He is a good help around the farm where we raise miniature donkeys.
🎻 Spring Festival – May 2nd
Our Annual Spring Festival Competition is almost here, and it’s open to ALL students!
📍 Snake River High School
🕘 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
What to know:
Perform 2 songs per solo division
Divisions include: Classical, Folk, Rock/Commercial, Ensemble, & Entertainment
Great opportunity to perform, set goals, and receive feedback from outside judges!
Registration is open April 1–25!
🎤 Instructor Showcase – April 4th
Join us for our first-ever All Instructor Showcase!
🗓 April 4th
🕕 6:00 PM
📍 Blackfoot Performing Arts Center
This is a FREE event and a fundraiser for our Spring Festival—come support your teachers and enjoy an awesome night of music!
🔥 Practice Challenge – Final Month!
This is the last month of our Winter Practice Challenge! The location with the highest practice average wins a 🍕 pizza party!
Current Standings:
🥇 Blackfoot – 23.43
🥈 Rexburg – 23.07
🥉 Ammon – 18
4️⃣ Pocatello – 16.26
Let’s finish strong!! 💪
(Practice Challenge winners are determined by average practice per student at each location, not just squares that are filled out at your location!)
If you’d like to take this challenge to the next step, then join us on this fun FREE practice app, called Tonic Music! It’s so fun, as is a way to gameify the experience.
Join our private group by clicking on this link below. And below that is a youtube tutorial I made to help explain it a bit more if you need it :)
2026 printable operations calendar 📅
We wanted to share our 2026 Printable Operational Calendar with you!
This calendar outlines important dates such as studio closures, holidays, and special events throughout the year.
Having these dates in advance helps families plan ahead.
(If a lesson falls on a scheduled closure, you are not billed for that lesson.)
Some of our Ammon students from our Fall recital. Captured by peakcreativepro.com.
To see pictures from our Fall recital (Ammon location) please follow the link below!
The password to see photos = SRS2025
Our teacher, Sarah (Ammon location), is helping a student with stage fright at our summer jam.
