The VMS joins Musical Associates!

Musical Associates with Logos

We are proud to announce that in January of 2025, The VMS will take the name of our longtime partner, Musical Associates!

Clients need not worry that anything other than our name and logo will change. You will still benefit from our proven methods executed by our exceptional teachers! The low prices you pay for music lessons will also remain the same.

Feel free to reach out to us at 877.841.6188 or write to us at mail@thevms.org or at mail@musicalassociates.org if you have any questions or concerns.

We look forward to continuing our work to bring the joy of music to your children.

And remember, with Musical Associates and The VMS together,

Everyone Is Musical!

 

Connecticut Programs

We are excited to be starting some programs in rural Connecticut this fall!

Small group guitar and piano lesson programs will be offered at Salisbury Elementary School Aftercare Program, administrated by SOAR, and in Kent Connecticut, offered by Kent Parks and Recreation. The programs are only $99 for 4 weeks.

Financial Aid is available to families for whom the tuition would be a hardship. Appropriately sized rental instruments are available for just $12 for the four weeks.

We will be holding benefit concerts in Salisbury on September 18th and in New Milford on September 25th, to help fund the financial aid packages. We hope you will come. We ask a donation of $10 for individuals and $25 for families.

Welcome Polite Piggies Summer Camp!

On Friday, July 8, 2022, we had our first general music lessons with the preschoolers and kindergarteners in Polite Piggies’ Summer Camp at The Maury School in Washington DC. The children learned the basics of how to conduct music while they listened for how many instruments were playing in both classical and jazz pieces of music. They also sang classical solfege notes, jazz lyrics, and their selected children’s songs. In addition, many did a bit of guitar strumming on their teacher’s guitar, with his help.

PS 11 Violin in NYC!

We are so pleased to be able to add violin lessons with Miss McCall at New York Ciy’s Public School 11 in Chelsea! These lessons began in early March, 2022, and will continue to the end of the school year. We look forward to continuing our relationship with PS 11 next Fall with the hope of expanding our offerings.

Welcome to The Henry Grew School!

We are excited to begin giving lessons in piano, violin, and guitar at The Henry Grew Elementary School in Hyde Park, Massachusetts. We are starting this Wednesday, November 10th, with violin lessons after school at Grew. Since Thursday is a holiday, we won’t begin guitar and piano lessons until next week. There’s still time to sign up, and spaces are open in 3rd-5th grade violin and piano, and in K-2nd grade guitar. Just click on https://thevms.org/afterschool/ to enroll your Grew child today!

No children at The Grew School, BTU Pilot or Stoddert Elementary? Just send us an email or give us a call at a local number the bottom of our Contact Us page on our site. We will be happy to explore setting up after school music clubs at your child’s school, because at Musical Associates & TheVMS, Everyone Is Musical!

Welcome Back Stoddert!

We are very happy to be returning to Stoddert Elementary this week for in-person after school music clubs, with many thanks to Coach V at Stoddert Extended Day and the Stoddert PTO.

Guitar clubs began this Tuesday, October 5 at 3:30 for Kindergarten through 2nd graders, and at 4:30 for 3rd through 5th graders.

We are pleased as punch to see that some of our longtime pre-pandemic and through-pandemic (via Zoom) students have enrolled to continue with us. We look forward to finally seeing you in-person again this week. Welcome Back to The VMS!

After School Music Clubs: BTU Begins

At Musical Associates &The VMS, we are very excited about the new after school music clubs being offered at the Boston Teachers Union Pilot K-8 School. The BTU School is located in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, and the afterschool music clubs are starting next week. There are piano, guitar, and violin clubs for small groups (4-6) of students in Kindergarten through 2nd grade and 3rd through 5th grade. The response from parents has been very positive. Groups have been filling up so fast that we have split two of the K-2 groups, adding another teacher for each.

In addition, we have had interest in adding 6th through 8th grade clubs as well, so they are in the works. It is entirely possible that they will be ready to begin the second week of October.

Does this sound like something you’d like for your child or grandchild? Contact Us to ask about adding the same kinds of after school music clubs at your child’s school or aftercare facility. We can have a program up and running as quickly as within two weeks.

A great article about benefits of music education

https://www.classicfm.com/music-news/musicians-train-young-age-have-more-connected-brains/

This excellent article, “Musicians who train from a young age have more ‘connected’ brains, study finds” gives more evidence of the long-term benefits of beginning music education at a young age. These are great reasons to sign up your young child for some music lessons today!

Mom on the Value of Practice

Remember the old joke about the young man getting lost while visiting New York City? He sees an old man playing the violin on the street for tips and tosses him a quarter asking him, “How do you get to Carnegie Hall?”

The old man looks at him and says, “Practice!”

Watch this brief video in which a a mother tells about the benefits she has seen her young children enjoy as a result of practicing their musical instruments as little as ten minutes a day.

Welcome Litchfield County!

We are thrilled to be offering 4-lesson online sessions to young students in Litchfield County, CT for only $99. The Waterbury Republican American Community News has just posted our press release featuring a picture of one of our many students. Here’s a link to the article:  https://community.rep-am.com/2020/07/14/village-music-school-offering-virtual-summer-music-program-and-scholarships-to-litchfield-county-students/

Actually, anyone can take advantage of this offer, since we are doing these lessons online.

As always, our friends at The Village Music School Foundation can help families who cannot afford the lessons..

So visit our Online Lessons page and sign up your child today.

After all, Everyone Is Musical!