Our Performance Program students present the music of Tom Petty!

What is the Performance Program?
At School of Rock Chatham, our Performance Program puts our students front-and-center on a real stage for real performances. Students get to show off their killer music skills while learning serious teamwork as they and their bandmates refine their abilities through some of music’s greatest hits. Chatham students prepare and rehearse through weekly individual lessons and group rehearsals getting ready for their big end-of-season show at a real rock venue. For our students, real performances breed real skills and real fun!

What is Tom Petty?
Tom Petty was an American singer/songwriter and guitarist. Gaining notoriety in the Southern Rock band “Mudcrutch,” he is most known for fronting the rock band “Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers,” as well as being a member of the supergroup “Traveling Wilburys” and as a solo artist. Over the course of his career (which spanned from the 1970s until the 2010s) he has sold more than 80 million records worldwide, making him one of the all time best selling artists. His hits, both with the Heartbreakers and solo, include songs such as “American Girl,” “Refugee,” “Free Fallin’,” and “Learning to Fly,” to name just a few! Petty and the Heartbreakers were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002.