Stacy’s Music Shop

Specialties

Stacy’s Music is Charlottesville’s première music lesson studio and was voted best place to take lessons in Charlottesville for 2015. We offer private instruction for guitar, piano, violin, bass, voice, uke, songwriting, and performance. Stacy’s also sells instruments and has a full repair shop.

History

Established in 1945.

Stacy’s Music Shop was started in 1945 by Carl «Monk» Stacy. It was his dream to open a record shop after he was done working in the Norfolk navel shipyards during World War II. Being a very accomplished musician, Carl was in a fairly successful dance orchestra band in the mid 1920’s, and saw that Charlottesville needed a source to purchase prerecorded music. So when the war came to an end he used his life savings and opened Stacy’s Music. Throughout the 40’s, 50’s, and 60’s, Monk ran the business with his wife Mary and younger son Carl Jr. It wasn’t until the early 1970’s that Carl Jr. purchased the store from his father and continued the legacy throughout the mid 90’s. It was Carl R. Stacy Jr. who transformed the business from mainly record sales to the instrument retail and lessons shop it is today. Stacy’s Music is still a family run business is now in its third generation of ownership. Shep Stacy, Monks grandson, now oversees the daily operations of the business.

Meet the Business Owner

Shep S.

Business Owner

Shep Stacy current owner of Stacy’s Music, received his BA from Shenandoah University in 1995. Shep plays many instruments and is a songwriter, producer, and recording engineer. His passion for creating music is what has made Stacy’s the store it is today.

Stacy’s Music Shop also recommends

Charlottesville Piano Company

Musical Instruments & Teachers

Shep S. says,

«This is a great place to buy pianos, or have one repaired.»