CRYSTAL LAKE – Area residents can discover the joy of creative expression by learning how to play a musical instrument or taking voice lessons.

McHenry County College’s Continuing Education Department offers private music lessons for 15 one-half hour sessions on weekdays, Aug. 20 through Dec. 13. 

The following lessons offered this fall are listed with their course ID numbers: pipe organ, NMU C01 008; jazz piano , NMU C02 008; piano, NMU C04 008; cello, NMU C05 008; guitar, NMU C08 008; viola, NMU C09 008; voice, NMU C11 008; French horn, NMU C12 008; trumpet, NMU C13 008; clarinet, NMU C15 008; flute, NMU C16 008; and oboe, NMU C17 008.