Music for all the ages

Music for all the ages!

Music for the very young, and the very young at heart.

EverythingWestport

Monday, August 14th and 15th, 2008

Partners Children’s Reading Circle had a special guest host and announced a hiatus.

“All children are musical, but it needs to be fostered at an early age,” said Lisa Boragine, a teacher for South Coast Music Together. “Our group is doing that every day. We are becoming a music illiterate nation,” Lisa Boragine said. “We are committed to changing that.”

Partners Village Store recently held their final Summer Reading Circle on Thursday, August 14th, and had a special guest host, South Coast Music Together, to take them out in style. Founded in 1987, Music Together® is an international, research-based music and movement program for infants, toddlers and their adult caregivers.

Rhonda Ploude (pictured left center), Director of South Coast Music Together, presented a one-hour class combining singing, dancing, and storytelling to an enthusiastic crowd of grandparents, parents and small children. Partner’s deck was hopping with fun!

Patti Stone, vacationing on Cornell Road in Westport with her three daughters said, “We love Partners! As a family we have taken music sessions together before, and were really looking forward to this!” Her daughters, Sadie (2), Lilly (4) and Ella (5) were having a ball.

Partners Village Store’s weekly Summer Reading Circle ends on Aug 14th and will be on hiatus until the fall. The Children’s Reading Circle will resume in late September. For more information call (508) 636-2572 or visit www.partnersvillagestore.com Partners Village Store and Kitchen, 865 Main Rd. Westport, MA.

Across town the Westport Senior Center was hosting Karaoke with Tom and Terry!

Meanwhile, the day before, the Westport Senior Center across town was hosting Karaoke with Tom and Terry. If music needs to be fostered at an early age, it certainly needs to be kept alive with our seniors, and Westport’s Council of Aging does a superb job in doing that every week. Hosting a myriad of musical lunches, the COA presents a round table of musical talent that entertains seniors over lunch at the Senior Center. Tom and Terry are among the best. Others are: Carl Bissonnette, George Cataldo (the Silver Fox), Ray and Susan of Silver and Gold, and the Westport Senior Center’s own Sing-a-long with Natalia.

“I played and sang in a country western band called Terry and the Country Casuals out of Acushnet for 15 years,” Terry (pictured left) said. “When I retired from that I started singing at the area’s senior centers, among other venues. It’s especially gratifying for me to give back to our seniors what has been so much joy for me over the years. I do this every day!”

Terry did a superlative job involving the seniors with song, exactly what Rhonda Plourde of South Coast Music Together was doing with the toddlers. The secret to the success of these musical programs is in the leadership of the supporters, either through funding or direct involvement such as that given by the Council of Aging and South Coast Music Together.

Lisa Cusack of Partners said, “It’s a little different than our reading circle. But the singing, dancing and story telling really gets the kids involved with music.” Funny, that’s exactly what Terry said at the Senior Center!

“Hey good looking, how about cooking something with me!” Terry smiled as she sang the old favorite. Her guests were singing with her.

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