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Nicole Cardamone is our very first Music Teacher of the Month! Congrats, Ms. Cardamone! She is a K-5 music and band teacher at Shelter Rock Elementary School in Danbury, CT. She plays the flute, trumpet, and French horn. Learn more about her, and please consider supporting her classroom through her Amazon Wish List.
8 year-old Kairos Mpanga is our Music Student of the Month. This third grader plays piano and drums at Neighborhood Studios, a grantee of ours currently celebrating their 45th anniversary!
Anthony was nominated to be our Student of the Month by his guitar teacher, Mr. Geo Suquillo, after having a wonderful summer camp participation. We want to recognize his hard work and efforts in sticking to the guitar during the past four years– he had just started with INTEMPO right before the pandemic and then he had to continue learning guitar through INTEMPO's online lessons.
Ethan Unruh is our Music Student of the Month. He uses his voice to sing in music class. He is in second grade at King Street Primary School in Danbury, Connecticut. Keep singing, Ethan!
SpreadMusicNow’s new home is at the Granite Church at 5 N Main Street in Redding, Connecticut. The town of Redding is where we were founded, and where we’ve had the opportunity to grow and thrive as an organization, and now we’re honored to join the burgeoning Georgetown neighborhood.
Congratulations to our July Music Student of the Month, Chaela McGinnis! Chaela plays the drums with the Roots of Music in New Orleans, Louisiana. She had the incredible opportunity to collaborate on a song for the new season of Queer Eye.
Shout out to our June Music Student of the Month, Amogelang Tsagae - Congrats! Amogelang is in the band program at Shelter Rock in Danbury, Connecticut. He's in fifth grade and plays percussion.
Joshua Westhoff is a fourth grade student at Shelter Rock School in Danbury, Connecticut. He plays the trumpet and also likes to play football and soccer. Jonathan enjoys math and hopes to pursue a career in finance when he grows up.
Iker Tipismana is in the band program at Toquam Magnet School in Stamford, Connecticut. He is in fifth grade and plays the violin.
Nathan Daniel Serrano is a 12-year-old student at Hartford Magnet Trinity Academy in Hartford, Connecticut. Nathan is a talented alto saxophone and piano player as well as a creative writer and artist, aspiring to become an architect one day.