About Nancy Salwen, Your Teacher
First, a big thank-you to to all my Music Together families, because I LOVE singing with you and your kids more that you may realize. That I can spend my days facilitating music-making experiences with you is a kind of miracle to me, and you make it possible!
Nancy grew up in New York City and has lived in Keene, NH since 1979.
Her love of community singing informs all of her teaching.
Nancy’s been teaching and running her own Music Together center in the Monadnock area since 2006. She also teaches early childhood music and movement programs in a variety of area schools.
In addition to working with children, Nancy specializes in teaching singing to “non-singers,” beginners and anyone who wants to sing more comfortably and expressively. To learn more about that, check out The Fear of Singing Breakthrough Program.
She is the author of the book (and online program), “The Fear of Singing Breakthrough Program: Learn to Sing Even if You Think You Can’t Carry a Tune!” and leads workshops, offers online programs, and teaches lessons in-person and over Skype (or FaceTime).
Nancy also leads music-based workshops for team building, staff development, and personal growth for businesses and organizations.
Nancy is a certified Music for People improvisation facilitator and workshop leader.
About Music Together
Music Together is a fabulous way for children to learn the skills to become competent and comfortable music makers...
It may seem funny to “teach” music to babies and young children, so let’s think about how kids learn their native language. They’re immersed in it! It’s everywhere for them and they just kind of absorb it. Well, in our culture (unlike some others around the world) opportunities are not everywhere for young kids to be immersed in live music – and this is what Music Together is all about!
How do children learn to speak? Through engaging with people they love, through repetition and immersion, and through PLAY.
In a Music Together class kids are free to explore, play and experience the music-making in the way that works best for their own age and learning style, while we grownups sing, dance and play percussion instruments. We create a place where music is all around, everyone’s having fun, and the kids are immersed and learning in the best possible way.
We know this works because Music Together has been around for over 25 years and our stories of musical joy and success are countless. All people are born musical – but we need an environment to encourage and nurture our musicality!