New Fenelon Falls music program offered at The Loft

Spaces are still available for a brand new and free Fenelon Falls evening music program called Youth Band Jam. It will be taking place Tuesday evenings every week for the next seven weeks, from April 28th – June 9th, from 6 – 7:30 p.m. at The Loft located at 30 Colborne St., Fenelon Falls.

It will be an all-inclusive program, not limited to any particular instruments, and will be open to Grades 7-12. “It’s going to be musical instruments ranging anywhere from woodwind to percussion to guitars, and we’ll learn how to read sheet music and play together as a group,” explained Lily McAulay-Hunter, supervisor of The Loft.

Leading this program will be local musician Robyn Somerville, and her two teenage kids, Sylvie and Gavin. “This is my first time volunteering with BGC Kawarthas,” said Somerville, “although I have spent years involving my own kids in many music programs available in the area, and also have been involved in local school parent councils trying to promote as much music as possible in our schools.”

Somerville describes herself as a piano player at heart, but she was involved in her youth in various band programs, and learning several wind instruments.

Sylvie and Gavin have a lot of musical experience themselves from a variety of programs; the Langton Public School music program with Ms. Kim Guindon, Summer Music Camp in Port Elgin for many years, the Kawartha Settlers Music Camp in Bobcaygeon, Trillium Lakeland Arts Camps, and many years of private lessons in piano with Melodie’s Music Studio in Lindsay.

The instruments will be donated and borrowed from the community, including from Langton Public

School, Fenelon Falls Secondary School, local bands, and Lindsay’s BGC music programs.

To sign up, go to https://shorturl.at/xzKAq