Ben Davila is a co-founder of the Rock Stop and serves as the lead teacher. Prior to moving to Traverse City in 2014, he spent nearly a decade teaching at the Bird School of Music in San Francisco.  Ben is a prolific song-writer and multi-instrumentalist, having written and recorded a song every week for five years. His music has been used in plays, movies, ads, and video games.  When he isn’t teaching, writing music, or performing, he records other artists.Ben graduated with degrees in music and sound technology from the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts. Besides music, Ben enjoys astrophysics and science fiction. 

I love teaching Rock ‘n’ Roll because so much of life is being told to sit still and be quiet. I like being a voice that tells people to make noise and wiggle. 

Here is Ben's story from the January 2018 event...