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Wallaceburg Arts: Fostering a life-long connection to music

Events like the recent Music Monday reinforce the importance of a music education

Monday, May 4, was not just Star Wars Day at Great Lakes secondary school. It was the beginning of Education Week — and, for approximately 800 students, Music Monday. Our friend, Chitra Dath, a music teacher extraordinaire, has been organizing Music Monday to kick off Education Week each May for the past decade, adapting as needed through the pandemic years. This year, she invited three adult musicians from Wallaceburg to join four from Sarnia and a throng of students.

At 8 a.m., Janet Barnes arrived at our place and the three of us travelled to Sarnia, instruments in tow. Inside the music room, students were already buzzing — chatting, warming up, many dressed in concert black, with a few Star Wars costumes mixed in for good measure.

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As roughly 100 student musicians and a handful of adults entered the auditorium, elementary students began filing in. They practised school cheers, waved to friends on stage,........

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