Vision A musically able and active population   Goals 1.  Create ways to sing and make music in communities. 2.  Launch a national campaign to promote singing in-tune. 3.  Raise student achievement—cross-train the brain       through singing and playing instruments. 4.  Publicize research on the effects of singing and music-      making on reading and math achievement, vitality, health. 5.  Collaborate with others to foster lifelong music-making.

Ann C. Kay is the founder and director of the Center for Lifelong Music Making where she launches transformative initiatives aimed at tipping the nation toward a musically able and active population. In 2008, she created the GREAT AMERCIAN SINGING CHALLENGE ™, a national project to help all children learn to sing in-tune and hold community sing-alongs.  Ann teaches courses with Elizabeth Olson for Hamline University and school districts based on Dr. Olson’s Affirming Parallel Concepts ™ model. A former elementary and junior high music teacher, Ann was also associate director of graduate music education at the University of St. Thomas where she founded and directed the Kodály approach certification program, advised MA papers, and initiated a unique mentorship program. Ann has served as president of the national Organization of American Kodály Educators and chaired numerous conferences.

Mission Transform the experience of being alive through music making