Music Together celebration to feature musician ‘Uncle Gerry’ Dignan, Nov. 17

November 12, 2018

Event: Goshen College Music Together All-Class Celebration with “Uncle Gerry” Dignan
Date/Time: Saturday, Nov. 17, 10-11:15 a.m.
Location: College Mennonite Church Fellowship Rooms
Cost: Free and open to the public

“Uncle Gerry” leads a Music Together celebration at Goshen College. (Photo courtesy of Goshen Music Together)

The Goshen College Music Together program will host an all-family celebration and sing-along on Saturday, Nov. 17, from 10-11:15 a.m.in the College Mennonite Church Fellowship Rooms on the campus of Goshen College. All current and past Music Together participants and area friends are invited to attend this special 10-year anniversary celebration event.

Leading the sing-along will be beloved Music Together celebrity “Uncle Gerry” Dignan, along with the band made up of local instrumentalists. Dignan is no stranger to Goshen Music Together families, as his voice is featured on Music Together recordings, and has visited Goshen several times in the past 10 years. In addition to the music, this celebration will include giveaways and drawings for Music Together sing-along storybooks and coupons to use toward upcoming classes.

GC’s Music Together program began in the spring of 2009 with a small after-school class at Chamberlain Elementary School. In the intervening years, GC Music Together’s Mixed Age Family, Babies, Big Kids and Rhythm Kids classes have brought the acclaimed Music Together® curriculum to hundreds of children and parents throughout Elkhart County. The GC program has also led classes for over 3,000 young students in local Head Start, Early Head Start and other preschool classroom settings.

Music Together is an internationally recognized early childhood music and movement curriculum for children between birth and grade two and the adults who love them. Originally 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.

According to Kenneth K. Guilmartin, Founder of Music Together, “All children have the ability, from birth, to learn music. At Music Together, we introduce children to the pleasures of actively making music, which is critical for their music development.

More information can be found at gcmusiccenter.org/musictogether