Our friends at the CMA Foundation brought together artists and music teachers to bring some fun music learning to all of us at home this summer and invited our 2018 MEIA grantee, K. Michelle Lewis, to teach us how to make the Mbira instrument using items we can find in our house: wooden dowels (or pencils!), bobby pins, a coaster, and rubber bands!
Watch the video below for this fun project and check out the CMA website for more Summer Music Camp lessons. You can learn more about the Mbira, i.e. the “thumb piano” originally from Zimbabwe, by clicking here!
“Music is the universal language of mankind.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1835) How many times have you heard some version of that quote? We’ve come to use and understand this as a metaphor for how we believe music to be appreciated across time and culture. Until recently, the universality of music had never been systematically […]
Give A Note welcomes Harry Connick Jr.’s Piano Party as a champion of our work to expand the reach and impact of music education. Piano Party is a new online piano course like only Harry Connick Jr. could create. As the course instructor and guide, Harry makes learning the piano fun as he mixes the […]
