The Hughes & Jones Music Fund for Nevada Public Schools is pleased to announce the Rural Nevada Music Awards for 2025. This grant cycle 24 proposals were submitted, with a total of $149,555 being awarded to 21 worthy school music programs.
In 2006, Charles L. Hughes and Alvin C. Jones created the Hughes & Jones Music Fund with the sole purpose of funding musical instruments to Nevada’s public schools. The goal was to make musical instruments available to students who might not otherwise be able to afford them and enable local schools to maintain the ownership for student use for years. By this process school music programs would remain strong and vital, and community events would have the benefit of local student talent.
The Hughes & Jones Music Fund grant cycles are:
- Nevada rural counties in the spring of odd years
- Clark and Washoe counties in the spring of even years
SCHOOL PROGRAM COUNTY
| Yerington Middle School | Band | Lyon |
| Meadow Valley Middle School | Concert Band | Lincoln |
| Wells Combined Schools | Band | Elko |
| Virginia City Middle School | Band | Storey |
| Pau-Wa-Lu Middle School | Band | Douglas |
| Lincoln County High School | Band | Lincoln |
| Yerington High School | Concert Band | Lyon |
| Pahrump Valley High School | General Music | Nye |
| Eagle Valley Middle School | Band | Carson City |
| Virginia City High School | Band | Storey |
| Rosemary Clarke Middle School | Band | Nye |
| Carson Valley Middle School | Band | Douglas |
| Churchill County Middle School | Band | Churchill |
| Battle Mountain High School | Band | Lander |
| Adobe Middle School | Band/Orchestra | Elko |
| Douglas High School Music Program | Band | Douglas |
| West Wendover High School | Band | Elko |
| Carlin Combined School | Band | Elko |
| Elko High School | Band/Choir | Elko |
| Carson High School | Band | Carson City |
| Albert M. Lowry High School | Band | Humboldt |
| Beatty Middle School | Band | Nye |
| Beatty High School | Band | Nye |
| Churchill County High School | General Music | Churchill |
Congratulations to the schools, students, instructors, and communities that will enjoy the benefit of these funds for the purchase of musical instruments to strengthen their music education programs. Have a great year of music.