A local nursing home reached out and asked if my students would be willing to spend some time volunteering and playing for the residents there. Sunday was the first day! My students performed for the memory care residents. "You Are My Sunshine" was the biggest hit! Every single one of the residents started singing along, it was so touching. I guess that's what motivated me to make this video! Thank you, everyone who is actively involved in helping our old people in one form o

I want to start this post out by saying how much I encourage you parents out there to make music a daily part of your children's lives from the time they are born. Music Neuroscience has done multiple research studies by taking children and sending them through musical training. After that, they show how their cognition changes. Their brain has been positively changed both in how it processes things AND in the actual structure of the brain. In other words: Learning to play