Jackie Freimor, director of Starlight Starbright Music, is thrilled to announce the following programs starting this fall at the Scarsdale studio: Music Together® Rhythm Kids, Music Together Sing Shalom, Ukulele Party for adults and teens, and private guitar lessons for children!
Music Together Rhythm Kids is an exciting music, movement, and drumming class created by Tom Foote and developed with Kenneth K. Guilmartin, Founder/Director of Music Together. It follows through on Music Together’s vision to help children complete the pathway of early childhood music development. The curriculum is segmented into two levels: Level 1 for 4- to 5-year-old preschoolers, and Level 2 for 5- through 8-year-olds in grades K-2. Both 10-week classes run once weekly for 45 minutes, and both are designed to help children integrate and assimilate rhythm by learning multicultural drumming patterns, developing new repertoire on various percussion instruments, exploring movement and dance while singing songs, and playing games based on music and drumming.
The other new Music Together program, Music Together Sing Shalom, is a pilot program developed in collaboration between The Jewish Education Project and local Music Together centers in New York City, Long Island, and Westchester County, with funding provided by UJA-Federation of New York. This program was uniquely designed using the Music Together program enriched with songs from throughout the Jewish world. Each week for 10 weeks, a community of families with children from birth through 5 years comes together to sing, dance, and play along in a 45-minute class led by a trained Music Together teacher.
The new non-Music Together offerings this fall include Ukulele Party, a 45-minute weekly jam session for adults and teens that runs for 8 weeks. Ukulele Party was developed by Jill Geddes, who started the program to teach ukulele technique and help students develop a more extensive song repertoire. And the final new offering is private guitar lessons for 6- to 10-year-olds at the Starlight Starbright Music studio in Scarsdale. The 30-minute lessons are taught by Jackie, whose former Music Together students are now old enough to receive private instruction on an instrument.
Starlight Starbright Music is also still offering Music Together Mixed-Age (0-5 years), Babies (0-6 months), and Guitar for Grownups classes at the Scarsdale location, as well as Uke U., beginner mommy-and-me ukulele classes for 3- to 6-year-olds. They have two other locations, too, where families can take Music Together Mixed-Age classes—Chappaqua and Tarrytown.
The classes at Starlight Starbright Music have been enormously successful—this year, they won Mommy Poppins Westchester’s Bestie Award for Favorite Baby and Me Class! For more information about programs and lessons, visit www.slsbmusic.com or call Jackie at (914) 924-0995.
