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Maintaining rhythm and building harmonies for children and families

09/05/2025

What a great start to our fall semester!

08/26/2025

Only one spot left for fall music classes!

08/16/2025

2 spots left!

08/10/2025

5 spots left!
Fall registration is filling up fast.

07/29/2025

Fall registration is now open!

04/25/2025

Babies and toddlers had so much fun this morning playing ukulele and singing!

04/04/2025

5 spots remaining for our spring semester!

04/01/2025

Spring registration is open for a mini semester of outdoor music classes!

03/30/2025

DON'T FORGET! Family Time with the Phil is at 3:00 PM on Sunday at Koger Center for the Arts and it's FREE TO THE PUBLIC! No reservations necessary. Doors open at 2:00 PM. Simply arrive and join us for an hour-long program of music the whole family will enjoy (including music from Moana, Star Wars, Harry Potter and Beethoven).

Thanks to support from:
National Endowment for the Arts,South Carolina Arts Commission, Colonial Life, BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina, Grace Outdoor, Palmetto Citizens Federal Credit Union, Looking Out Foundation, and Elizabeth Wheeler

03/17/2025

Our spring registration is now open! Join us for 5 weeks, April 25 - May 23 for a mini semester.

01/24/2025

Few adults play musical instruments, and even fewer do so in a group, Caroline Mimbs Nyce wrote in 2024. What health benefits might they be giving up? https://theatln.tc/oglkQfzJ

“Kids receive plenty of music education, but as people get older, they fall out of practice. Many stop picking up their instrument,” Nyce writes. “This is unfortunate, in part because plenty of research shows that adults could benefit from playing music.”

Playing music helps build larger brain networks and new pathways. “Musicians tend to have better attention than nonmusicians,” Nyce continues. “Banging on a drum or tooting a horn can also relieve stress, reduce burnout, and help with anxiety and depression. For older people specifically, research has shown potential cognitive benefits along with a possible decrease in dementia risk.”

Adults may be skipping out in part because music education is associated with childhood and coursework. And after people grow out of music education in their childhood, they tend to think that music is a special talent, Nyce writes, not something that just anybody can learn.

“Of course, people are busy; they simply may not have the luxury of sitting down to study Bach once a week, much less the money to pay for an instrument or private lessons,” Nyce writes.

Playing music in groups has additional benefits, such as allowing adults to feel more trusting of and connected to one another, and to the world in general. But while it’s easy to go to a park or gym and pull together a game of pickup basketball, “piecing together people at the same skill level to play a concerto or even just jam in a garage is another matter.”

Nyce herself recently began to play the recorder. “I plan to keep learning,” she writes, “not because it strengthens my neuropathways per se (though I certainly don’t mind that), but because making music, even when it’s silly—perhaps especially when it’s silly—is just a whole lot of fun.” https://theatln.tc/oglkQfzJ

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01/09/2025

Music classes start a week from today! 🎶

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302 Senate Street
Columbia, SC
29201

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