Vision A musically able and active population     Goals   Create opportunities for all people to make music. Engage educators in singing folksongs and playing singing games, and enable them to transfer this process to their students. Initiate research studies investigating the effects of singing and music making on academic achievement, health and well being. Launch a national effort promoting music making in communities. Collaborate with others through projects/programs to foster lifelong music making. Advocate lifelong music making.

Ann C. Kay is the founder and director of the Center for Lifelong Music Making where she launches transformative ideas aimed at tipping the nation toward a musically able and active population.  A former elementary and junior high music teacher, she was also associate director of graduate music education at the University of St. Thomas where she advised master’s theses and founded and directed the Kodály approach certification program.  She has served as president of the national Organization of American Kodály Educators, chaired numerous conferences, and presented over 60 workshops for music teachers in the U.S. and Taiwan.

Destination Transforming the experience of being alive through music making