(Sponsored) If you are like many parents, ready to “lose” some of your kids’ favorite CDs for fear you will suffer insanity if you have to listen to one more rendition of ‘Row your Boat’, I’ve got some wonderful new suggestions to add to your playlist…and you just may find yourself listening to them even when your child isn’t around!
City Stomp is an educational music program that not only features music that families (parents as well as the kiddos!) love, but gives a multi-cultural music lesson every week too. Classes provide age-appropriate instruction based on the music heard around New York City: salsa, hip hop, zydeco, funk, reggae, folk and more. Rooted in Caribbean, African, Latin, Jewish and other cultures, the songs celebrate the city’s diversity of sights and sounds.
City Stomp’s classes are so in tune with children’s natural behaviors, they even came upon their name that way: “the band’s name is a dual reference to the instinctive stomping that is one of a child’s first movements to music, as well as to the big band “party” style of Kansas City Stomp music,” says founder Kevin MacCallum.
It’s no surprise that City Stomp is causing quite a buzz in Brooklyn. In fact, the program recently, expanded to offer three levels of classes that guide musical development from infancy through the teen years: Family Classes, Drum Circle and City Jams. You can register for the 10-week winter session that begins Jan. 4 here.
For more information call 718-483-1690 or visit the City Stomp website or Facebook page. Free trial classes begin Monday Dec. 9 at select Brooklyn locations below. Reservations required via info@citystompmusic.com.
ST JME LUTHERAN CHURCH
283 Prospect Avenue, between 5th and 6th Avenues
SPOKE THE HUB
748 Union Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues
1225 DITMAS AVENUE
Corner of Ditmas Ave and Argyle Road)
Gowanus
9th Street between 2nd and Smith
Get up and get stomping with City Stomp today!