Children Performing for Children

10 am invitation only

6 pm Open to Public Audience

Suggested Donation

Decades of research have shown how a child's participation in early music education programs enhance its social and intellectual development. Children are musical beings, and the Music Matters! program enhances a child’s natural abilities, requiring them to actively use several parts of their brain at once. They also have better collaborative skills, have better socio-emotional skills, and have higher academic achievement; all traits of resilient and well-adjusted adults.

Programs like the ones provided by the MCS bring opportunities to all students, regardless of economic background, in a way that improves the community on multiple levels. Not only do our students reap the benefits of a musical education, the community also gets to enjoy the fruits of our students labor through multiple concerts and stage productions throughout the year. Finally, strong and resilient communities thrive when their children are engaged in worthwhile activities that support their growth and development.

Each year, during our Children Performing for Children concert, young children watch from the audience, as orchestras, choirs, and ensembles of their peers perform right in front of them. A second concert is provided in the evening for parents and the public.

Many times, at these concerts, students share that this is their first visit to the Panida Theater, or the first time they have heard an orchestra perform live-let alone an orchestra of their peers. In this way, Music Matters! is introducing the “culture of culture,” in a rural area, where access to the arts is generally limited.

Not only is the arts expressed, but talent is often hidden in remote areas. Our Music Matters! outreach program is designed to build skills, as well as positive avenues for self-expression, opposed to self-destruction.

presented by Music Conservatory of Sandpoint