On a recent fall afternoon, behind an unassuming storefront, three little girls giggle and hop through a sunny front room. A huge, old dog lounges around behind the desk. Parents sit patiently, reading magazines and, ostensibly, waiting.

Their children are out of sight and almost out of hearing, tucked into a row of cozy studios, learning piano, guitar, trumpet, chromatic harmonica, viola, or any other of the huge variety of instruments that are taught at the Silverlake Conservatory of Music.

On a corner of Sunset Junction, the Conservatory is quietly entering its eighth year. Well, not entirely quietly. The fourth annual Hullabaloo fundraiser kicks off this weekend at Union Station, featuring one of the biggest names in jazz today, Roy Hargrove, in addition to one of the school’s co-founders, Flea, and Italian jazz singer Roberta Gambarini. (more…)