Music Monday - TODAY! Let's Make Music Together!!!

Music Monday.

On Monday, May 4, 2020 hundreds of thousands of students, teachers, parents, musicians, and music lovers from coast to coast to coast will celebrate the importance of music in our lives.

Join us online for a nationwide celebration and register for Music Monday!

This year, so Canadians can celebrate safely, we welcome you to our first Music Monday @ Home!

Beginning at 9AM EST in Atlantic Canada, Music Monday will be streamed on the Canadian Coalition website, YouTube channel, and Facebook page.

The Live Youtube Channel is working the best right now.  

The day-long broadcast will include a series of exciting regional broadcasts with:

• live performances
• new music from our Youth4Music Ambassadors  
• interactive activities for kids of all ages
• messages from prominent Canadians
• a specially curated Spotlight Celebration, highlighting some of our favourite content from across the country
• and an epic After-Party!
  

Our 2020 Music Monday anthem is Oscar Peterson’s iconic “Hymn to Freedom,” with lyrics by Hariette Hamilton. Check out the Oscar Peterson Learning Guide on the website to read more about this Canadian legend, and champion of music education.  

Click on below links for more information.

Families can register online:

Explore the Music Monday website: 

Music Monday theme song , Hymn to Freedom.

Schedule is listed in Atlantic time. Subtract 2 hours for CST/Manitoba times. 

Let's celebrate making music together as a family, school and nation.

Assignment (posted on Seesaw on Monday, May 4) :

Monday, May 4, 2020 is Music Monday. Almost 8 million Canadians will be celebrating and making music on this day! 1. Watch the Hymn to Freedom video posted above. 2. Explore the Music Monday website and watch a scheduled event. Information on the Music Blog. 3. Do one of the following options listed below: Option 1 - Use the Bingo sheet in the Student Template to get five in a row for a bingo during a Music Monday Spotlight Celebration. Times are listed on the Music Blog. Option 2 - What is your favourite song or who is your favourite musician? What style or genre of music do they perform? I will be creating a list of Crestview students' favourite songs/musicians/styles of music that will be posted on the music blog on a Music Listening Monday in May. Option 3 - How are you making music as a family? Send me a video of you making music with your family or write how you make music with your family. Let's make music together as a nation raising our voices and playing instruments and making sounds together.