Family music

Times Reporter  

 

The Music Together: The Joy of Family Music is a community of families sharing songs, instrument play, rhythm chants, and movement activities in a relaxed, playful, non-performance environment.  

The new song collection comes out every semester for three years.

“It’s a program available for children ages birth to five years old. Basically Music Together has been around for 25 years, starting in the States and they are a very researched program based on that all children can sing with a beat and tune,” said Jodi Gordon, director and Music Together teacher. “So they developed nine different song collections, there is three in a year, and they’re each a ten week session.”

The sessions entail a variety of instruments in a sit-down setting.

“It’s a sit down (of) singing, chanting , play instruments; we have drums, sticks, maracas and bells,” said Gordon.

It’s a non-performance based program so mostly parents and little ones attend –even grandparents attend.

Gordon does expect something more out of the parents so they can motivate their kids to sing as well.

The sessions run through fall, winter and spring on Tuesday mornings from 9:30-10:15 a.m and 10:30-11:15 a.m. 

Also, Wednesday mornings from 10-10:45 a.m. and Wednesday evening from 5:30-6:15 p.m. and 6:30-7:15 p.m. 

All sessions take place at the Strathmore Civic Centre. For more information you can contact Jodi at 403-512-9241 or jodi.shiningstarsmt@gmail.com.