Musical Folk Information

Musical Folk is a music program in the New Haven, CT area offering the Music Together® program for babies, toddlers and big kids, as well as ukulele lessons and group adult guitar lessons. The Music Together® program is an internationally recognized early childhood music and movement program for babies, toddlers, preschoolers, and the adults who love them. First offered to the public in 1987, it pioneered the concept of a research-based, developmentally appropriate early childhood music curriculum that strongly emphasizes and facilitates adult involvement. Music Together® classes are based on the recognition that all children are musical. All children can learn to sing in tune, keep a beat, and participate with confidence in the music of our culture, provided that their early environment supports such learning. For hundreds of thousands of families worldwide, Music Together® is all about children and their grownups joyfully sharing songs, rhymes, movement, and instrument play, both in music class and in their daily lives. All children are sounders and movers and their natural aptitude for music blossoms in a sufficiently rich music environment. In fact, when given a supportive music environment, children learn to sing and dance as naturally as they learn to walk and talk. How is this possible? Children learn differently than adults. They learn instinctively and constantly. They teach themselves through imitation and play, through being immersed in their environment, and through every interaction with adults and older children. The family-like setting of a Music Together® Mixed-Age class enables siblings to attend together, creating an ideal learning environment where infants, toddlers and preschoolers can freely participate at their own levels. Wiggling, singing, and laughing with your child is so much funits easy to forget how much learning is taking place! Our research-based curriculum not only develops music skills, it nurtures creativity, self-expression, and confidence while also supporting social, ...