Our Supporters & Partners
Thank you to our donors large and small
Every donation to TACO helps us develop musical opportunities for musicians and listeners, build a community where music and friendship meet, and make the world a better place with music.
THE Melvin and Geraldine Hoven Foundation
Our partners
Our major supporters
Los Altos Mountain view community foundation
Silicon Valley Creates, in partnership with the County of Santa Clara
green foothills
Cooperation helped inspire the music for Shoreline to Skyline, which will be premiered at TACO’s 15th Anniversary Celebration
March 2025
Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District
Cooperation helped inspire the music for Shoreline to Skyline, which will be premiered at TACO’s 15th Anniversary Celebration
March 2025
Spangenberg Theater
in palo alto
Where we will present “TACO & Friends Celebrating the Music of Nancy Bloomer Deussen”
March 2025
The Icon Theater
in Mountain View
Where we premiered the documentary film “Sunday Afternoon Playing with Friends”
May 2024
Los Altos City Recreation Department
Where we present TACO as a class starting in Jan 2023
Golden Gate park Band Festival
Where TACO was invited to perform at the San Francisco Spreckels Temple of Music
June 2023
Redwood City Cystic Fibrosis Fundraiser
A special collaboration where TACO’s musicians performed for a fundraiser
May 2023
Peninsula Cantare
Invited community chorus to our Holiday Sing-Along
2022
Community Women’s Chorus
Invited community chorus to our Holiday Sing-Along
2021
Fall outdoor pandemic performances
Performances/gatherings in neighborhood cul-de-sacs and gardens
2020
Mountain View Center for Performing Arts
Holiday Sing-Along on Civic Center Plaza 2021 and 2022.
ParkStage performances
July and Oct 2021
Freestyle Academy Digital Arts Program
In the Mountain View Los Altos High School District - Collaborated to edit and mix our virtual Holiday Concert
with 10 songs
2020
TACO Los Angeles
Joint virtual orchestra project playing Viva La Vida
2020
Mountain View Ukulele Class led by Chuck Monaghan
Invited to our Holiday Sing-Along
2018
Moldaw Senior Residences
Performance
2019
Mountain View City Library
Performance at Reading Rocks Festival
2018
Palo Alto Women’s Club
Performance at Holiday Luncheon
2016
San Jose State University MEWE concert
TACO musicians joined Music Education Workshop students in Concert at SJSU Music & Dance Theater
2014
RTO, Edinburgh, Scotland
3 TACO musicians joined a group of musicians from around the US at a concert of the RTO at the Fringe Festival
2014
Really Terrible String Orchestra of SF Bay Area
Hosted a joint rehearsal with guests from East Bay to prepare musicians joining the RTO performance at Fringe Festival
2014
City of Los Altos
TACO appearances on the Summer GREENS
2013, 2016, 2018
Los Altos City Recreation Department
Where we ran TACO as a class from
2014-2019
City of Mountain view
Where we rented space
2021-2022
City of Los Altos
Where we rented space
2021-2022