Our Children’s Voices

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Finale concerts this weekend at St. Edward’s Catholic Church, 601 C Street, Shelton. Tickets and information are available here.

“Our Children’s Voices” is Anna’s Bay’s program to supplement the in-school music education programs at local elementary, middle and high schools. Our model is to partner with music specialists at partner schools in order to provide training, materials, expertise and performance opportunities that would typically be beyond what might be available at a rural school.

Nothing fuels academic success quite like music. In addition to wonderful memories, the students who benefit from programs like “Our Children’s Voices” tend to have significantly lower dropout rates (Catterall, 1998) and to score an average of 100 points higher on the SATs (Profile of SAT and Achievement Test Takers, The College Board, compiled by Music Educators National Conference, 2001). Research also shows that students participating in these kinds of programs are twice as likely to win an award for academic achievement, eight times more likely to win a community service award, and four times more likely to participate in math or science fairs (Rich, 2000).

This season, the more than 150 local students in the “Our Children’s Voices” program, some of whom are shown above, will receive supplementary materials and music education from January through April of 2012. At the culmination, students from all seven participating schools will perform together in four finale concerts along with the Anna’s Bay Chorale and the South Shore Chamber Orchestra. There is no cost to participating students (or schools) each of whom will receive a score, a practice CD, a t-shirt and a DVD of the finale performance.

Sponsor a Child You can help by sponsoring one of our participating children! Just click the red button to the right.