El Sistema USA/Salinas (YOSAL) will be able to continue providing high-level, instrumental music instruction to at-risk youth in Salinas. Our young musicians attend classes and rehearsals at least 3 days/week and have access to counseling, homework help, and more. We are committed to social change in our youth and communities.
YOSAL’s primary goals are to make classical and orchestral music accessible to the city’s low-income youth and to provide a safe space and community through which they can also access mental health resources, such as counseling. YOSAL provides instruments, weekly music classes, ensemble rehearsals, choir, music theory, and music history classes, all free of charge to students in 1st through 12th grade.

