Ozzy's Music Academy
Twin Towers New Bridges Education Center, 1411 Oak Street, Alameda, CA 94501
About
Ozzy's Music Academy offers vacation and summer camps, afterschool programming for children and youth, and both group and private one-on-one music lessons. The program includes rock bands, band coaching for kids through adults, open mics, jam sessions, and community music events. Students can work with instruments from the Modern Band such as ukulele, guitar, bass, piano/keys, drums, brass and woodwinds (introduction/tutoring), and vocal performance, and can take part in tiered afterschool programs, mentorship, and use of rehearsal space.
• Ages: 5–18 years old
Ozzy’s Music Academy states that its mission is to empower students to grow as musicians and individuals by cultivating mindfulness, fostering intrinsic motivation, and embracing disciplined practice, using tiered afterschool programs, band coaching for kids through adults, open mics, jam sessions, and community music events. The program describes itself as a community music center with the supportive structures of a music classroom combined with the technology and excitement of a performance space and recording studio.
Ozzy’s Music Academy highlights mindful musicianship and offers Modern Band 101 and Beginning Guitar Classes in collaboration with Alameda Parks and Rec Department for the 25–26 school year across the island. The academy is connected with Alameda Adaptive Arts, a performance group for adults with developmental and intellectual disabilities, and the Trinity Troubadours, a ukulele group focused on musicianship through technique and repertoire. Through a partnership with Twin Towers New Bridges Methodist Church, the team serves and connects with the community, and emphasizes that with compassion, kindness, and self-awareness everyone is welcome to learn, grow, and express themselves, with others available to lend a hand, provide advice, show new ways to play, and offer encouragement.
Ozzy’s Music Academy is led by Ozzy (Joseph Osborne), who is described as a musician, music educator, and philanthropist, director of Alameda Adaptive Arts, and supporter of the Trinity Troubadours. Joseph Osborne studied Education and Music and Humanities at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, completed an undergraduate degree with an emphasis in Educational Psychology and K–12 Music at Wayne State Teachers College, and moved to Alameda to pursue a Master’s Degree in Music, Curriculum, Musicianship, Musicology and Pedagogy at Holy Names University in Oakland. Alameda Adaptive Arts performs at local and regional music festivals and events, including with Benevolent Band Alameda at Kiwanis Christmas, the Alameda Christmas Tree Lighting, and on Thompson Avenue for Christmastree Lane.
Last updated March 18, 2026.
• Ages: 5–18 years old
Ozzy’s Music Academy states that its mission is to empower students to grow as musicians and individuals by cultivating mindfulness, fostering intrinsic motivation, and embracing disciplined practice, using tiered afterschool programs, band coaching for kids through adults, open mics, jam sessions, and community music events. The program describes itself as a community music center with the supportive structures of a music classroom combined with the technology and excitement of a performance space and recording studio.
Ozzy’s Music Academy highlights mindful musicianship and offers Modern Band 101 and Beginning Guitar Classes in collaboration with Alameda Parks and Rec Department for the 25–26 school year across the island. The academy is connected with Alameda Adaptive Arts, a performance group for adults with developmental and intellectual disabilities, and the Trinity Troubadours, a ukulele group focused on musicianship through technique and repertoire. Through a partnership with Twin Towers New Bridges Methodist Church, the team serves and connects with the community, and emphasizes that with compassion, kindness, and self-awareness everyone is welcome to learn, grow, and express themselves, with others available to lend a hand, provide advice, show new ways to play, and offer encouragement.
Ozzy’s Music Academy is led by Ozzy (Joseph Osborne), who is described as a musician, music educator, and philanthropist, director of Alameda Adaptive Arts, and supporter of the Trinity Troubadours. Joseph Osborne studied Education and Music and Humanities at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, completed an undergraduate degree with an emphasis in Educational Psychology and K–12 Music at Wayne State Teachers College, and moved to Alameda to pursue a Master’s Degree in Music, Curriculum, Musicianship, Musicology and Pedagogy at Holy Names University in Oakland. Alameda Adaptive Arts performs at local and regional music festivals and events, including with Benevolent Band Alameda at Kiwanis Christmas, the Alameda Christmas Tree Lighting, and on Thompson Avenue for Christmastree Lane.
Last updated March 18, 2026.
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