News & Events
Family Drumming Circle
Join us and wonderful musician Steafan Hannigan for our 🎶SONG Family Drum Circles🎶 With dates all summer in Port Hope AND Cobourg, so you can join in as many times as you’d like. We’ve got the drums – just bring the family and let’...
Thank you Sing Canada Harmony
We’d like to take a moment to thank our longtime supporters at Sing Canada Harmony for helping make our in-person Christmas concert a reality in December. Through their generosity we were able to hire an accompanist to support and enrich...
Christmas Wishes
Join SONG and Safe Harbour for a memorable return to making music together – just in time for the holidays! This concert is generously sponsored by Jacqueline Pennington, RE/MAX Hallmark. Poster by Christine Benson. Ticket Policy All tic...
Registration now open for our 2021-22 choir and strings programs
Great news! All of SONG’s choir and strings programs (in Cobourg, Port Hope and online) are now open for registration. Sign up at https://form.jotform.com/211864805647261...
Advanced Music Reading Practice
Put your music reading skills into action as Dave leads you through three violin studies. Study #1 – all the notes you see are either open strings or use your first finger. Play along with Dave, then try it again on your own. Study #2 – ...
Rhythm Practice on the Violin (Part 2)
Let’s improve your rhythm reading on the violin. In this online violin lesson Dave helps you learn to read rhythm in a piece of sheet music. Follow your heartbeat or tap your toes to keep the beat, and learn how to play whole...
Violin Note Reading Practice (Part 1)
Learn tricks to improve your music reading on the violin! In this online violin lesson Dave helps you learn to read sheet music, including understanding what the open string notes are and what notes can be found using each finger on...
More Free Violin Lessons
SONG is back with more free online lessons! This violin lesson for beginners and experienced players will teach you about using the bow at different speeds on the violin, as well as provide violin exercises for open strings, scales, and ...
Take a peek inside SONGtech
Curious about our new SONGtech program? Thanks to the Ontario Trillium Foundation we’ve been meeting with 20 youth in grades 7-10 each week since the end of March. SONGtech members are learning how to create music using a variety of apps...
Now We Thrive: SONG Virtual Spring Concert
Join us May 16th at 2pm on our YouTube channel for our Virtual Spring Concert, generously sponsored by Cameco and Trenholm Parker, Sales Representative at Re/Max Lakeshore Realty Inc. It’s been a year of adapting, accepting, and learning...
This song makes me feel…
Music can make you feel so many different things. Are you trying to get into a calm headspace to focus on work you need to do? Or maybe you are sad and need to listen to some music that expresses that feeling. Either way, a song can do t...
Drumroll please…
We’ve been itching to tell you about our BIG plans – and the day has finally come! We are proud to announce the newest SONG program, SONGtech, made possible through funding from the Ontario Trillium Foundation. SONGtech uses music and vi...
SONG one of six local recipients of the OTF Resilient Communities Fund
Today, MPP David Piccini announced on behalf of the Government of Ontario that six local organizations will receive over $555,000 in funding to rebuild and recover from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. We at SONG are thrilled to be ...
I want to join SONG, now what?
January brings a fresh start to our music learning, as we begin new material and open up registration to new members. That means right now is the perfect time to join SONG! What classes are available? We have 4 days of programming availa...
It’s showtime!
Today’s the day for SONG Family Holiday! Join us for the YouTube premiere at 2pm by clicking this link: https://youtu.be/ePAGSyZ0Btw. Please comment as you watch so we can all feel we’re watching “together.”...
SONG Family Holiday
Tune in to the premiere on YouTube Sunday December 20th at 2pm! The music hasn’t stopped at SONG, and we invite you to join us in celebrating the season with singing, strings, and lots of joy and laughter. HOW TO WATCH: The video will go...
Celebrate with us December 20th
Tune in to the premiere of our winter concert on YouTube Sunday December 20th at 2pm! The music hasn’t stopped at SONG, and we invite you to join us in celebrating the season with singing, strings, and lots of joy and laughter. HOW TO WA...
We’re all in this together
This fall, despite the fact that charities worldwide are struggling to keep doors open, Sing Canada Harmony extended their enormous generosity to SONG with a $600 donation. This money will help support our online programming and the purc...
Family ChoirWhat is it and how does it work?
We are so excited to invite you to join our new Family Choir beginning Monday November 2nd. Since it’s a brand new program, there have been some questions about how it works. We’ve compiled them into this little FAQ, and we invite yo...
What colour are you today?
Many a SONG rehearsal starts with this simple question:“what colour are you today?” In school our students learn about the zones of regulation, which allow them to express and understand their emotions in a clear and simple way. We...