Footsteps in the Dark was an awesome play! Thanks Harry for inviting us! The cast was phenomenal, I…read morecan't wait to buy it on DVD...

From the owner: Gaston School of the Arts offers quality education in the arts for the community. We offer classes…read moreand private lessons in art, drama, and music. Gaston School of the Arts also has a playhouse which produces shows for the community to enjoy.

Beware your business with the Shelby Music Center. I took an instrument there in late 2015 for…read moreconsignment. They never called. I couldn't get anyone on the phone. Half the time I couldn't even find anyone at the shop. The door was wide open, customers were looking for an employee and couldn't find one. When I returned and did find someone, the instrument was only partially there, missing the mouthpiece and other accessories. Worst of all, my receipt, which I still possess in my wallet, wasn't honored, and I wasn't compensated. I have returned three times over the past couple of years, and the shop owner Mike always puts me off and says he'll get an answer and call me, writing down my number like it's the first time on a piece of scratch paper among a sea of scattered papers on the counter. So, the instrument I played for six years in middle and high school is gone forever with nothing to show for it. And on top of that the Better Business Bureau basically says they cannot help me because the transaction happened more than a year ago. I'd prefer to never have a bad review to leave a place because I love sharing kindness and positivity and support for small businesses, but I've kept this one quiet long enough. I got taken advantage of by a business with no good intentions for me, and I fear other folks can suffer the same fate due to the disorganization of the music shop.

Great little music store! I'll buy my strings and anything else I may need for my guitars or if I…read moreneed saxaphone stuff. Very nice experienced staff. No presure to buy anything, I like to just look, listen and either take a lesson or play one of the guitfiddles on the wall. I DO buy stuff when I need something.

I've driven by this place so many times and never noticed it, since the sign for it is small and…read morekinda hidden. Birdsnest is actually located right upstairs from the Needlecraft Center on Main Street in Davidson. It seems weird, but you walk into the house and head upstairs to the second floor. The Birdsnest consists of a retail shop and a place to get some music lessons. There is a little room that is cluttered with tons of vinyl records, which is what drew us here in the first place. The prices were pretty good and the quality of the records was great. They also have a small selection of CDs and other music formats, but it's mainly about the records. There are other rooms upstairs that are dedicated to music lessons, both instrumental and vocal. Birdsnest is a pretty cool addition to downtown Davidson and worth checking out if you want some vinyl or want some professional assistance in becoming a rock god.

I've Found two of my favorite records here and in really good condition! Harvest by Neil Young and…read moreDamn the Torpedoes by Tom Petty. It's a small place with a small selection but what I've found was great and a reasonable price.

I recently rented a pair of 1500w speakers from this GC at Pineville…read more I knocked 2 stars off due to my experience this time. I am a repeat customer (have rented speakers last year and bought a guitar from here). The store is well stocked and there are many musical instruments on the floor that customers can interact with the get a feel for them before deciding to purchase. The issue was with customer service. For most part it was good. I interacted with 4 different customer support people and all were perfectly fine except for one which is why I knocked 2 stars off. Here is what happened during this visit-- I rented the speakers for a function which was to take please in a huge indoor space which is the Indian Land Recreation center. The space is larger than this GC with ceiling hight nearly double that of GC. Both speakers looked a little dinged when I rented them. So I purchased insurance. We tested them in the store itself. Both were functional at normal talking volume. But once we setup the speakers in the huge indoor space and raised the volume to a reasonable level one of the two speakers performed very poorly and started producing thumping noise. So we reduced its gain to a lower decibel level. It was around just 60% of the other speaker. Still I could tell that the sound lacked crispness. So after the function when I returned the speakers to GC. I informed them that one specific speaker performed very poorly & that they should use the insurance I have purchased to replace it. So that they don't put it back into circulation again and some other people who rent it would have a bad experience. Then I requested for a partial refund of the rental value of one speaker. Instead of telling me what is the specific verbiage of the store policy the manager Mr. Dean was giving me a very purely subjective explanation of how in middle of my function I should have called the GC to tell them how the speaker was not performing well! So I asked if the store policy specifically says that if I called earlier like he said he would give a discount of any amount? To which he came up with more off tangent explanation about why insurance is important. So I explained to him that I did buy the insurance but the issue was with the rent I paid for a proper functioning speaker which I did not get (only one speaker functioned well). Again his implication was that we just used perfect speakers but now after the fact want to trick them into giving a refund. I challenged him to test the speakers then and there and raise the volume to the same level in both speakers and then he could tell how one of the speakers failed. He had no answer except that all speakers perform to less than their rated wattage and that's the natural order of things. I am no Audiophile but even I know that fact (since I was not born just yesterday). But there is an expectation of reasonable performance from any equipment that we rent. But that was not there in this case. So in the end they basically said that when you rent Speakers from them it can be a hit or miss and we have to be prepared for that risk. During our function many singers complained about the poor output and lacking the impact they expected. It was disappointing to the singers and the audience. So I have decided to purchase new set of speakers for the next year but definitely not from this GC because then I will be rewarding them for not standing behind their product quality and not showing a willingness to provide a fair customer support!

These representatives seems to be thieves in my opinion--take money fast, but don't correct…read moreproblems fast . . . a bit racist.