Music Together Celebrates Sing With Your Child Month
This March, Music Together celebrates Sing With Your Child Month, a special time to commemorate the importance of singing, dancing, and making music with our families. Music-making is integral to children’s development, supporting their growth as confident music-makers and as healthy adults. March, a month symbolizing re-birth and growth, is the perfect time to celebrate the bonding and joy that occur when families make music together.
Visit our Sing With Your Child Month page to learn more.
Contact your local center to find out how you might join a celebration near you!
Music Together Raises Over $4200 for Haiti
at Two Benefit Concerts
On, Saturday March 6, 2010, over three hundred families gathered at Music Together’s international headquarters in Hopewell, NJ, for two family concerts held to raise money for victims of the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti in January.
The “Families Singing for Families” concerts were sponsored jointly by Music Together LLC and the Music Together Princeton Lab School. Together, a total of $4200 was raised for the Red Cross International and Save the Children Haiti funds. In addition to $2600 in ticket sales, families at the concert generously donated an additional $800, which will be matched by Music Together LLC. We’d like to express a heartfelt thanks to everyone who attended for their generosity.
Parents and children attending the event had a great time singing, dancing, and playing along to favorite Music Together songs. The all-volunteer band of Music Together LLC staff members and Lab School teachers was joined by special guest performer recording artist Gerry Dignan. “Uncle” Gerry is featured on the CDs given to the thousands of families worldwide who take Music Together classes.
Take a look at some pictures of families at the concert having fun at the concert!
Music Together Releases “Family Favorites 2” CD on February 14, 2010
On February 14, 2010, Music Together LLC released “Music Together Family Favorites 2,” which follows the original award-winning “Family Favorites” CD. This new CD features nineteen (19) outstanding songs drawn from all nine (9) Music Together song collections and includes a 32-page booklet with fun music-making activity suggestions for every song for use at home, in the car, or in the preschool classroom.
For more info, to listen to sample clips, or to order a copy, please visit our store.
Upcoming Conventions
Music Together attends over twenty-five (25) conventions each year to help us stay current on the research occurring in early childhood music and movement. If you live in the area or are attending the convention, please consider stopping by the Music Together booth to pick up some information and introduce yourself!
American Montessori Society Annual Conference
Boston, MA — March 25–28, 2010
Workshop topics:
• Music and Movement for Monday Morning!
Presented by: Deanna deCampos, Co-director Eastside Westside Music Together
National Coalition for Campus Children’s Centers Annual Conference
Lake Buena Vista, FL — April 7–10, 2010
Workshop topic:
• Maximize Your Music-making Area
National Conference on Family Literacy
San Antonio, TX — April 10–13, 2010
Workshop topic:
• Songbooks Are Books, Too: Using Print and Audio Music Materials
to Support Early Literacy Learning
The National Association of Child Care Professionals Annual Conference
Chicago, IL — April 20–22, 2010
New York State AEYC Conference
Verona, NY — April 29–May, 2010
Workshop topics:
• Maximize Your Music-making Area
• “Shake those ‘Simmons Down” and Other Great Movement Activities
for Monday Morning
• Beyond “Wheels on the Bus!”
Great Songs and How to Lead Them
Music Together Founder/Director Kenneth K. Guilmartin on Television in September
On September 6 and 12, 2009, Music Together LLC founder/director and program coauthor Kenneth K. Guilmartin was featured as a panelist on the award-winning public television show "Caucus: NJ."
"Growing Up Great"
Educational Innovators: Conversations with Early Learning Pioneers (Part 2)
This episode focuses on leaders in early childhood education
whose work is helping give kids a head start.
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