October 29 at 7:00 pm Atlee High School Auditorium 

Please read this article if you need anymore positive reasons to learn how to play an instrument!

I was recently selected to receive the Youth Service America Summer of Service Award. This monetary award will allow me to enrich the Music To My Ears program by offering practice instruments to those students that do not have access to one!  

Congratulations to the six extraordinary young people selected as the 2014 Hasbro Community Action Heroes! These ‪#‎HasbroHeroes‬ will be honored Thursday night at the ‪#‎genOnBenefit‬ in NYC. Full bios here 

The Richmond Symphony Youth Orchestra will be playing side-by-side with the Richmond Symphony Orchestra for free at 7 pm on Tuesday, November 12th, at the Carpenter Theatre. Two Kings Charter high school students, Johnny Willing & Sean Simmons will be performing with them. Please come out and see a great performance. Sean is a Music To My Ears instructor. 

SMAK (Summer Music Activities for Kids)

SMAK
July 22 is the last day to register and pay. 
SMAK will take place at Cool Spring the week of August 12-16 from 9:00 am to 12:00 noon. All children age kindergarten through grade 5 will be eligible to sign up for SMAK. Please e-mail Linda McNally at [email protected]  for additional information. The cost for SMAK is as follows:

$50 - 1 child
$80 - 2 children
$100 - 3 or more children total per family

I had very exciting news this week. Music To My Ears won a national award! The prestigious Jefferson Awards, Youth Service Challenge, named Music To My Ears a national winner in the education and literacy category. There were 3700 nominees and the top 3 in 9 categories received national recognition. You may read more here.