About

We are Northampton’s one-stop music shop, founded in 1976 and worker-owned since 2019. We’re proud to support a growing and changing community of musicians here in the Valley! Downtown Sounds sells top brands of instruments, such as guitars, bass guitars, keyboards, drums, ukuleles, PA & recording equipment, brass and woodwind instruments, and so much more! Our Music School offers online lessons with some of the best musicians in the Pioneer Valley. 

TOM SHEA
Guitar Repair, Sales
tom@downtownsounds.com
Tom Shea heads the guitar repair department at our co-op, along with luthier Zach Muffoletto. As a musician, Tom has appeared on many recordings and performed with: Hoolapopper, Scud Mountain Boys, Ray Mason Band, Lonesome Brothers, as well as performing solo.

DAVE TRENHOLM
Accounts, Billing, Sales
dave@downtownsounds.com
Dave has been playing professionally in the area for over 20 years and has been a member of the bands King Radio, Free Range Cats, Soul Magnets and many others. He holds a BA in Music from the University of Massachusetts. Dave teaches guitar, saxophone, flute, clarinet, bass, and ukulele. He’s been teaching at Downtown Sounds for over 10 years.

AARON BORUCKI
Sales, Reverb 
aaron@downtownsounds.com
Aaron Borucki plays bass, guitar, keyboards and drums. First hired by Downtown Sounds in 2004 he has over 16 years of music retail experience. Aaron has been offering professional recording services since 2007 under the name Something Studios. You may know Aaron from doing live sound around the valley since 2012 and from the bands The Smokey Wambas, Sue, Trials and Tribulations, The Summit, NW Angle among many others. He currently writes, plays and sings in his group Behold! True Believers. Aaron is a lifelong fan of Marvel Comics, Star Trek and Nintendo.

JASON CARPENTER
Sales, Reverb, Admin
jason@downtownsounds.com
Jason Carpenter conducts merchandise ordering, inventory management, and manages reverb sales.   A timber frame carpenter for 15 years, Jason also plays piano and guitar, and first started working for Downtown Sounds in 2018 providing guitar repairs.  He believes that with the right group of people working together, the whole can be greater than the sum of its parts.

MIKE BENOIT
Sales, Reverb, Admin
mike@downtownsounds.com
Mike has been a salesman at Downtown Sounds since 2007. Primarily a drummer, he has recorded with artists of every genre, toured the country, and taught all proficiency levels. He currently plays drums for Rosie Porter & The Neon Moons, Behold! True Believers, and Noam Schatz & the Lucky Shots. He also works in real estate brokerage, specializing in commercial site selection, market research, and brand growth. He is a firm believer in the co-op model and believes organizations grow and thrive best when decisions are formulated and executed by the people who do the work.

KEITH LEVREAULT

Keith Levreault has been a highly sought after drum instructor at Downtown Sounds for over 20 years. Keith has over thirty years of playing experience, and is well-versed in many drumming styles including rock, jazz and Latin. Some of the national and local artists Keith has played and recorded with include Kevin Salem, Blood Oranges, Freedy Johnston, ‘Til Tuesday guitarist Robert Holmes, The Lonesome Brothers and Klezamir. Keith has a Bachelors of Arts in Music from Westfield State University.

ADAM IVES
Sales, Assistant Guitar Repair
Adam started working at Downtown Sounds in 2019. Since he was five, he’s been making music, whether it be on his own, or with friends and other musicians. As he got older and his perfectionism got more intense, he wanted to have full control of the music he created. After learning more and more about the recording process, Adam now records, mixes, and masters his own tracks. Adam released my first solo EP “Sold to Creativity” on October 24th of 2018, and hasn’t stopped releasing music since.

TOM LEBEAU
Sales
Downtown Sounds’ most recent hire is Tom LeBeau from East Brookfield. Tom works as a retail salesperson, utilizing his wealth of musical knowledge to assist customers. He also teaches guitar, bass, piano, ukulele, and drums at Valley View School in North Brookfield. A lifelong musician, Tom LeBeau also produces his own music in his home studio, and plays lead guitar in the band Rosie Porter and the Neon Moons.  

GARRET SALAZAR
Music School , Sales
Garret is a drummer who has been living in the Pioneer Valley for the last five years. He has a Bachelors’s degree from the University of Connecticut where he studied communications & music. In his free time, Garret plays drums in several local bands, including Owen Manure, Jake Klar, the Sun Parade, Ruby Lou, and Izzy Heltai.