When Lauren Harutun, youth services coordinator at the Carbondale Branch Library, began asking parents and teens what they would like to see for youth programming, she said, “Far and away, the answer was ‘music.’ I heard the call and said, ‘I’m bringing in music for the kids.’” The first offering of youth music programming is […]
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Learning Rhythms and Rhymes for Trying Times
Last June, I saw a post on the Carbondale Facebook page from local musician Natalie Spears offering music lessons. At this point, I had spent over two months in COVID-remoteness and needed something to break out of my doldrums. One Christmas, I received a ukulele as a gift. It came with a songbook and I […]