Given Monday’s post about Ending Singing Trauma, today’s quote seems apropos …

“Sing, Sing a song,
Sing out loud, Sing out strong,
Sing of good things, not bad,
Sing of happy, not sad,
Sing, Sing a song,
Make it simple,
To last your whole life long,
Don’t worry that it’s not good enough,
For anyone else to hear,
Sing, Sing a song.”
– Joe Raposo, Sesame Street staff writer

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Reminder: you can come hear the Northeast Middle School students sing their song next Thursday and Friday. I’ll post the complete details on Monday!

“Singing is the outward manifestation of our souls. [S]inging is not a luxury, it’s not a plug-in, it’s not a nicety, it’s not a small entertainment for lunch time for some of the children, it is every child’s birthright.

And our mission is to bring that back to our 21st-century modern communities.

That singing is not a luxury, it is our children’s birthright.”
– Howard Goodall

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Thanks to my friend Ann, I got to see this keynote address by (and briefly meet) Howard Goodall, the UK’s National Ambassador of Singing.

(How cool a title is that?! *wink*).

Goodall was instrumental in implementing Sing Up, a national, government-funded program dedicated to making “sure that singing is at the heart of every primary school child’s life.”

“Learn from others’ mistakes. You don’t have time to make them all yourself.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“When the student is ready, the master appears.”
– Buddhist proverb

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Reminder: Songtaneous is TOMORROW at 2pm. Visit the Events page for details.