Kids!

Friday wraps up Week 1 of the Eastern Music Festival Kid's Camp/Music Academy Collaboration! Kids ages 4-6 got a chance to work with our teachers - learning about instrument families, singing songs, and working on basic exercises in melody, harmony, and rhythm. Props to our teachers who battled with a roomful of tots for hours on end! That's tough work. Tomorrow, the little ones will be visiting The Music Academy to attend a violin class, guitar class, and learn about our Recording Studio.

If you don't know about the camps, check them out here.

Twelve Benefits of Music Education (in a Nutshell):
summarized from Children's Music Workshop.com

1. Brain development, specifically in the areas involved with language and reasoning.

2. Spatial intelligence (the ability to perceive the world accurately and to form mental pictures of things).

3. Creative thinking and problem solving.

4. Success in school, and a tendency towards higher grades.

5. Cultural awareness, tolerance, and compassion.

6. High standards, excellence, and reaching goals.

7. Understanding the concrete results of hard work and sustained effort.

8. Teamwork and discipline through rehearsals, ensembles, practicing, and performing.

9. Self-expression, meaningfulness, and self-esteem.

10. The creation of multi-dimensional workers, and good communicators.

11. Taking chances, conquering fear, and working through anxiety.

12. An arts education exposes children to the incomparable.

and.....IT'S FUN!