Did you know that all children are musical?
At Music Together®, we celebrate The Joy of Family Music®. In a forty-five minute class we sing, dance, play instruments, and laugh a lot! See for yourself with this online video and parent testimonials!
Music Together is an internationally recognized early childhood music program for families with children birth through 5 years. Music Together was developed in 1987 in Princeton, NJ by the Center for Music and Young Children where they pioneered the concept of a research-based curriculum that facilitates adult involvement. Our classes provide an engaging, playful, and non-performance-oriented learning experience that emphasizes actual music experiences rather than concepts about music.
Music Together classes build on your child(ren)s natural enthusiasm for music and movement. We believe that music ability is as much a life skill as walking or talking. We believe that all children can achieve basic music competence, i.e. learn to sing in tune, keep a beat, and participate in music-making with confidence and pleasure, provided that their early environment supports such learning.
Classes meet once a week for ten weeks consecutively during the school year and once a week for six weeks in the summer. Each family receives 2 copies of the professionally recorded cd (one for home, one for the car!) and a beautifully illustrated songbook with the music that we'll use all semester. Music Together classes offer your family a chance to play, to make music, and to learn about children's music development. During the early years, it is extremely important that parents and caregivers be the ones who create a nurturing environment. Children are biologically "wired" to respond most to those with whom they have close bonds. Music Together classes help you build that bond, regardless of your musical background and abilities. If adults have fun making music, children will, too. So join us at our beautiful studio on Peoria's riverfront as we in introduce your child(ren) to the pleasures of making music...together!
Julie Westendorf-Walker
Director, Music Together of Peoria