What is Music Together®?
Since 1987, Music Together® has encouraged millions of children, parents, and teachers around the world to connect with one another through joyful music-making.
From babyhood through the early elementary years, Music Together nurtures each child's natural musicality in a playful, musically rich learning environment. Our research-based music classes are designed to be non-formal and non-performance oriented, so your child can learn at their own pace, in a way that's developmentally appropriate.
By enrolling in our children's music program, you'll experience a whole semester of classes led by one of our trained teachers. No matter what music class you take at Asheville Area Music Together, you're guaranteed to learn new songs and music activities that inspire you to bring music into your family's everyday life.
We teach the way children learn.
Children learn differently than adults. They learn instinctively and constantly, and teach themselves through imitation and play, through being immersed in their environment, and through interaction with adults and other children.
The family-like setting of Music Together® classes creates an ideal learning environment. And it's all based on research in early childhood and music development. Learn about the research behind Music Together at Music Together Worldwide.
Your role is essential.
Parents and caregivers, you are your child's most important music teacher right now! Young children learn through play and experimentation and by watching and listening to the grownups they love. Setting an example as an enthusiastic participator in music activities is the best thing any parent or caregiver can do to help set a child on the road to a lifelong love of music.
Parents don't need to have music skills, only a desire to play and have fun with their children! Our teachers are trained to create a safe atmosphere so you can happily join in, experiment, or even get silly—and feel closer to your child while doing so.
Musical learning supports all learning.
Wiggling, singing, and laughing with your child is so much fun, it's 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, emotional, cognitive, and physical development.
Because these benefits build over time, children enjoy the fullest growth in each of these areas when they participate as consistently as possible up through kindergarten.
“I really feel a strong sense of community in our classroom. I enjoy the feeling of safety that my daughter has in music because she is comfortable and knows that not only am I looking out for her, but all the other parents are serving as role-models and care-givers to her as well.”
Our Music
Asheville Area Music Together is proud to teach the Music Together® curriculum which includes an award-winning mix of original songs and traditional tunes from a range of musical styles, including folk, blues, jazz, and world music. The music is pitched just right for children's voices, and the arrangements are fun, sophisticated, and loved by children and grownups!
Download the free Music Together app for 12 full-length songs. Then, each time you enroll in a Music Together class, unlock your new Song Collection using the code in your songbook.
The Music Together songs are organized into nine collections of twenty-five songs, with three collections taught each year. Your family is welcome to join us at any time and continue for three years—and beyond. Many families cycle back and re-experience the collections as their children turn three or four. Because music-learning is cumulative, your children will experience developmental benefits that build over time. That's why we encourage their participation in Music Together for as many years as possible from infancy through kindergarten.
Fun for the Whole Family
Our Mixed-Age music class is for children from birth through age 5—and the grownups who love them!® Gathering babies, toddlers, and preschoolers together makes each class fun for all.
Each week, a trained Music Together teacher leads the class in singing, dancing, and playing songs that range from tender lullabies to boisterous jams using child-friendly percussion instruments. Our award-winning music, illustrated songbook, and other print and online resources will help you continue the music-making fun at home and nurture your child's musical growth—even if you don't think of yourself as a great singer or dancer. Like parenting, making music requires no previous experience or expertise, just a willingness to get down on the floor and get silly with your child!
“We love love love your class, I tell everyone that I know that has a little one about Music Together. We are involved in activities all over town and your class is by far our favorite. Last week she got quiet and thoughtful to slower songs and we went through all of our cloth napkins as she was twirling them like you showed her with the scarves. This week she's been kicking to all songs that are upbeat just like the circle kick dance we did. She just loves to act out the feeling of a song.”