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music for everyone
MUSIC IN THE COMMUNITY
INITIATIVE PARTNERS
Recent and current partners: Community partnerships
Schools in Concord, Manchester, The Music School follows the tradition started by the Settlement House movement
Hopkinton, Barnstead, Campton, a century ago, with a commitment to making quality arts education accessible to
Amherst, Bristol, Littleton, Bow, everyone. Financial aid for individual students is a significant part of the Music
Belmont, Salisbury, and Laconia School’s budget.
21st Century Community Learning Centers,
Concord and Manchester Music School partnerships with
public schools, preschools, retirement
Center for Health Promotion, communities, public housing, and
Concord Hospital other human service agencies further
The Birches, Granite Ledges, expand access. The School’s Music
and Havenwood-Heritage Heights in the Community Initiative (MICI)
retirement communities, Concord fosters those partnerships, allowing
Concord Boys & Girls Club Music School faculty to teach hundreds
of individuals across New Hampshire
Merrimack Valley Day Care, Concord whose access is limited by disability,
Concord, Manchester, and Laconia Head Start distance, or economic status.
Neo-natal Intensive Care Unit, Elliot Hospital Faculty members, making more than
Riverbend Community Mental Health 600 visits to partnership sites annually, New American Africans Family Fun Night
offer programs including songwriting at the Music School
Spaulding Youth Center, Tilton workshops at a residential institution for youth with neurological, developmental,
and emotional disorders; dance movement therapy for preschoolers at Manchester’s
“Giving people with mental illness the Families in Transition Head Start; a chorus for adults with developmental disabilities;
opportunity to express themselves a Music & Movement class for teenagers working with toddlers in an on-site daycare
through music is a healing gift.” center at Huot Technical Center in Laconia; music therapy for fragile newborn babies
and their families; and intensive workshops and master classes at high schools.
- Louis Josephson, former president and CEO,
Riverbend Community Mental Health

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