The annual Northeast Ohio Parent Choice Awards seeks to gather the opinions of local parents on everything family-friendly in the region. Our readers and online followers voted for their favorite businesses, attractions, family services and more.
Here are the winner and runners-up in the “best place for children to explore music” category.
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Winner: Beck Center for the Arts
This nonprofit organization in Lakewood provides kids with opportunities to explore music in a variety of ways, from piano, voice, guitar, percussion and strings to concert band and orchestra instruments. Children can benefit from private lessons, group performances and camps, which are offered year-round. Students with disabilities can participate in adapted lessons and music therapy. There are also several early child programs for newborns through age 7 to explore music. beckcenter.org
Second place: The Music Settlement, themusicsettlement.org
Third place: Mr. Jeff, mrjeffisfun.com