Dear Friend of Monterey County Pops!, Thank you for your amazing support over the years. I am writing today to urge you to join me in making a donation to the Monterey County Pops! through the MC Gives! 2020 campaign. We are so thrilled and...
Everything is different this year for The Monterey County Pops Fundraiser Uncorked! and we need your help more than ever! Join us as we present our online-silent auction from Tuesday, November 17th through Saturday, November 21st, 2020. Support us – so we can reach our...
Monterey County Pops! and Access Media Productions (AMP) announce the debut of a new locally produced TV series – “Monterey County Pops! Pros Teach”. This series of eight half-hour musical instrument clinics taught by MC Pops! principal players will air on Comcast channel 24 (AMP...
In a typical year, we perform free Memorial Day outdoor concerts on both the lawn of Monterey City Hall and the lawn of the Old Del Monte Hotel on the grounds of the Naval Postgraduate School. These are followed by an early evening 4th of...
For this period of on-line K-12 education in Monterey County we are creating three programs to assist local school music educators in their on-line teaching. First, we are recording a series of instructional programs to be broadcast weekly over AMP Television. Titled Pops! Pros Teach,...
MCP! is creating an on-line version of the symphonic fairy tale for children, Peter and the Wolf, where the narrator tells a children’s story, while the orchestra illustrates it. Each character is the story is represented by an instrument of the orchestra. We are filming...
During this period of on-line K-12 education in Monterey County, we are creating Pops! Pros Teach LIVE to assist local school music educators in their on-line teaching. This is a program that offers, free of charge, 1-hour live, inter-active instrument clinics by Pops! Pros via...
We were able to present one live performance during the summer! We broadcast a live 4th of July Concert with our 40-piece orchestra and two vocal soloists from the outdoor amphitheater of York School. The concert was broadcast live over AMP Monterey Television and viewed...
The annual Monterey County Pops! Independence Day concert “The POPS! Celebrates Freedom” was broadcast live on Saturday, July 4, 2020 at 1:00 p.m. on Comcast channel 24 (AMP 1) and streamed live here. The Monterey County Pops! thanks York School for allowing us to use...
The Corona virus crisis caused us to postpone two of our in-school residency performances at Soledad and North Salinas High Schools. Carl and seven members of the Pops! put together this short performance of Grand Old Flag to give everyone a little distraction during their social...
