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Deerfield Beach and the Boca Raton area offer residents plenty of sun and great beaches, and if you’re a musician taking guitar lessons in Deerfield Beach or Boca Raton, it also offers you a thriving music scene to go out and enjoy. Learning to play an instrument begins with taking lessons. In order to grow and stay inspired to further your studies, it’s important to see and listen to other players.

If you’re taking guitar lessons in Deerfield Beach or the Boca Raton area, you’ve got plenty of outstanding clubs, restaurants, and venues where you can experience live music. Watching and listening to other guitar players is an excellent way to begin to find your own “voice” as a guitarist. Meeting and talking to other players can help you to learn new techniques and help you to network, get out there, and perform yourself! Boca Raton offers plenty of opportunities for all three! Here are a few venues worth checking out.

Live Music Venues

The Funky Biscuit (http://www.funkybiscuit.com/) is a Boca Raton club that’s been featuring the best local cover and original bands in the area since 2011.Owned and operated by musicians, the club features the best national, regional and local talent on stage 7 nights a week. Hailed by many as the best sounding room in South Florida, The Biscuit’s owners know what it takes to create a musician friendly atmosphere and it’s established itself as a “musician’s home away from home.” If you’re into NOLA Funk, Delta Blues, Fusion Jazz or pure Rock and Roll, you’ll find it here 7 nights a week. Ready to show your stuff? Check out the Biscuit Jam every Monday night!

If your taste runs towards Jazz, Boca has several great clubs to enjoy a bite, a glass of wine and spectacular performances by some of South Florida’s hippest jazz artists! The Vino Wine Bar and Tapas (http://www.vinowinebarboca.com/news/) features live jazz performed nightly in the atmosphere of a sophisticated New York jazz club. Many of the bands feature outstanding jazz guitarists.

Another jazz club in Boca offering live music in a really unique atmosphere is The Funky Buddha Lounge and Brewery (http://www.thefunkybuddha.com/). Part brew-pub, part hookah lounge, part art gallery, and all about entertainment, the Funky Buddha features a range of jazz, experimental, electronic, and improvisational music performed by local and touring artists as they’re surrounded by the works of local visual artists. After your guitar lessons in Deerfield Beach or Boca Raton, bring your axe and sit in every Monday night at the Homemade Jam/Improv Music night, or come by on Wednesday nights for the longest running open mic night in the area - where anything goes!

Universities and Colleges

Boca Raton is home to two colleges that feature extensive music programs and offer plenty of live performances for you to check out - often featuring free admission. College performances are also a great way to meet and network with other young musicians after the show.

Lynn University’s Conservatory of Music (http://www.lynn.edu/academics/colleges/conservatory) features a wide variety of programs for students interested in pursuing music degrees including an extension series of performances and recitals throughout the year. If you are interested in the classical side of guitar, Lynn Conservatory offers many guitar student recitals and performances.

Florida Atlantic University (http://www.fau.edu/music/) offers a full range of programs from contemporary music performances, to jazz and classical. With several Grammy award winning faculty members and their own record label, here you can hear it all from some of the best up-and-coming future rockstar performers!

Living and taking guitar lessons in Deerfield Beach or Boca Raton offers you sun, sand, and great live music! Make sure to take advantage of all three. So get yourself out to the clubs and get inspired!