Studies have shown the benefits of playing music help your brain more than any other activity: https://www.inc.com/.../the-benefits-of-playing-music ... Joe's Music Mill has over 1,600 musical instruments to lend to anyone who wants to access those benefits. A $25 annual membership allows you to borrow any of our instruments for a month at a time. Check out our website, www.joesmill.org  or visit us on the ground floor of the Tett Centre (370 King Street West, Kingston).

Last year, HomeGrown Live raised a record $15,400 for Joe's Music Mill. This year’s HomeGrown Live Music Festival is on Saturday, May 2, at venues in and around downtown Kingston. You can find the performer application here . Please note the HomeGrown only accepts applications from artists who live or work in the Kingston area (one or two band members from abroad is okay!) Applications close on Feb 20. Thank you HomeGrown Live and the Kingston Community for your support!

Thank you to United Steelworkers Union Local 343 for their generous $1,250 donation to Joe's Music Mill. We really appreciate your support! Here is Joe's Music Mill President, Denis Leroux (left) with Dan Wood, President, United Steelworkers Union Local 343

Make a resolution for 2026 to take up a new instrument! Or 5! A $25 membership to Joe’s Music Mill lets you do that for the whole year.

Join us at the RCHA Club on Tuesday, December 30th for a very special Tom's TUNESday as it turns into Jan's Jam for Joe! Catch some great music for a great cause with this special fundraiser for The Joe Chithalen Memorial Musical Instrument Lending Library.   Music will be between 4PM - 7PM with entrance by Donation.

Our last day open before the holidays will be Saturday, December 20. We will reopen on Saturday, January 3, 2026. Thank you for your support - All of us at Joe's Music Mill wish you a wonderful and safe holiday!

Ukes are an excellent first instrument: easy on the fingers, easy to play, and everyone sounds good on ukulele. Our instrument catalogue is kept in tune by support from Play! Charitable Gaming Kingston .

Joe’s Music Mill will begin providing weekly music education to seniors at the Rideau Heights Community Centre beginning Friday, November 28. The sessions will run Fridays from 10 am to noon. There is no cost or registration required - just show up ready to have fun learning to play music - we provide the instruments !

Happy Birthday Joe! Thank You for your inspiration and the flame that you lit. It has been shared with many and continues to be passed on. Wish you could be here to share the stage with us. "It was a privilege to play with you, wouldn’t it be great if everybody had the opportunity to play an instrument?" -Joe Chithalen

In October Joe's Music Mill joined the many Kingston charitable organizations that benefit from Charitable Gaming. We thank PCGA Kingston for supporting our mission to let everyone play music.

Joe's Music Mill will be hosting drum circles from 8 -10 pm on Saturday, October 4th at Tett@10: reflections, an event celebrating the...

Thank you to the Open Voices Community Choir for their generous $3,300 donation presented by Andy Rush. We greatly appreciate the...

Find out what's happening at Joe's Music Mill - Read our Summer 2025 Newsletter here:

Graham Topp first began volunteering at Joe’s Music Mill in August 2022. He is part of our always friendly and helpful Tuesday evening...

Happy Canada Day! Joe's Music Mill will be closed on Tuesday, July 1st.

Thank you Kin Club of Gananoque  for your generous $2,000 donation to Joe's Music Mill. We appreciate your support! Below: Sean Thompson...

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Tom Stewart and Joel Yearsley presented a cheque for $15,400 to Joe's Music Mill president, Denis Leroux after another successful music...

Thank you HomeGrown Live, musicians and venues, and thank you Kingston! This year's festival raised $15,400 for Joe's Music Mill! Joes’s...

Remember the broken standup bass that Joe's Music Mill donated to artist Karen Peer? Here is the amazing art piece she created! You can...