Life is not always easy. Families find themselves struggling for many unexpected reasons: a sick child, loss of a job, a life changing health diagnosis, etc.
- Music brings joy into families and reduces stress!
- Music is the number one regulator of mood!
- Music is bonding, soothing and healing!
At Exeter Family Music Center we support a policy that if a family would like to continue but our programs are "cost-prohibitive" then we work with them at their level. If you would like to donate to support our policy of helping families please do! Any donation amount, time or support is appreciated!
PLEASE HELP US with the Be Peaceful Music Book project!
I have a deeply personal request to make of you. Please consider making a contribution of $15 or more, to help us make a passionately held long time dream come true. With your help, and the help of a dear -and very dear, organized, amazing, talented and very patient, friend Kate Meadville, we hope to bring to life the first book of a Music Book Series created for young children and their caregivers.
We and Randy Houk, a National Parenting Publications award-winning children’s illustrator/author of 8 books and life long musician/singer to help with this project. thrilled to have found She has agreed to help consult with production and has given us a significantly reduced rate on illustrations for the first book to get this worthwhile project off the ground.
We’re calling it the Be Peaceful Music Book Project and a portion of any sales of the books will, of course, go to the Be Peaceful Share Music Fund.
Three ways you can help! :
· All you have to do is Donate $15.00 or more! (We’ll do cartwheels if you can spare more!)
$50.00, $100.00, $1000... ANY AMOUNT IS APPRECIATED!!
Once we have enough to get the first one done, we will send you a copy of the first book and downloadable song FREE.
If you prefer you can send a check made out
BPSF (Be Peaceful Scholarship Fund)
mail to: PO Box 793
Exeter, NH 03833
· Share or forward this email with your network of family or friends who may be able to donate or be interested in helping!
· Offer your guidance ideas, skills, talents, advice, or expertise in any area that could help us make this project happen! Send suggestions, comment to terrytaylormusic11@yahoo.com or reply to this email.
The inspiration for the series has come from sharing early childhood music with families and my own children for over ten years. Almost all of you READ to your child(ren) everyday and understand well the importance of sharing books with your child, and most of you SING to your child(ren) and have participated in Early Childhood Music Classes sharing the beauty and magic of making Music Together®. The books will share traditional and original songs, be adapted and simplified for young children. Randy will be creating beautiful illustrations in an artistic style, pleasing to the adult reader and each book will include a downloadable song to share with your child!
Over the years I’ve always had held the philosophy that “if you can do, do, if you can’t, then do when you can..…”
It’s been a really difficult year for lots of people in our communities and I’ve personally not been exempt from major challenges. CREATING together and HELPING each other is something that enriches us all!
We sincerely appreciate your consideration and am sending peace and love, in song to you and your family today and always.
"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." -Plato
Gratefully yours,
Terry Taylor, Director
Kate Meadville, Project Manager
Exeter Family Music Center
http://www.mtexeter.com/
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We area always accepting donations of anything MUSICAL -- CD's, equipment, instruments - guitars, pianos, flutes, drums, violins,..( adults and child sizes ) and sheets music or music supplies of any kind, PA and recording and video equipment ( mic's, etc. ) and also princess/prince and fairly dresses and art supplies! Any creative things you have to donate will find a good home at our center! THANK YOU!
One Mother Shares:
I began attending Music Together about a year and a half ago. When we started, my daughter was in the process of receiving her autism diagnosis. I was stressed out, desperately worried and in need of some magic. Terry Taylor delivered that magic to us. From the beginning, Terry encouraged relaxing and having fun with music. There is never any pressure on the children to participate. Terry encourages the adults to participate and model for children and within moments the whole room is singing and dancing together. Terry is keenly aware of the different learning styles (visual, auditory and kinesthetic) and incorporates all of them into each class. The whole experience has been nothing short of phenomenal. My daughter and I look forward to that class each week. We have so much fun! My daughter has progressed remarkably because of music with Terry . When we first started, my daughter was completely nonverbal and would circle the room, or run around a little aimlessly. Today she not only participates appropriately, but she will also take little leadership roles from time to time. The tonal patterns and vocal play have helped my daughter begin to talk and sing. There is nothing sweeter than the sound of her voice singing!! (Particularly since we were not sure we would ever hear it, given that a number of children on the spectrum remain nonverbal). Many of the other mothers have been surprised to learn of my daughter’s diagnosis, because in Terry’s class she looks like any other typical child. It’s phenomenal to see how far my daughter has come because of Terry and Music Together. I’ve actually made it a point to schedule her therapies around music with Terry because it reaps more results than speech, OT and all other therapies combine
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The atmosphere is beautiful: happy children singing, dancing and playing together, and happy parents singing, dancing and playing together…all choreographed by a very talented artist named Terry Taylor.
