Music In Our Schools Month

March is officially designated Music In Our Schools Month, a national observance of the importance of school-based music education programs. The first Music In Our Schools celebration took place in 1973. It was expanded to Music in Our Schools Week in 1977 and claimed the entire month of March in 1985. That was also the year of the first World’s Largest Concert, an annual nationwide sing-along sponsored by MENC: the National Association for Music Education.

Every March , members of AMC, NAMM, MENC, VH1 Save The Music and various academic, artistic and professional experts visit Capitol Hill to press for wider recognition of music as a vital core subject for young students and to call for increased federal funding for music education.

Music In Our Schools Month continues to grow each year, with more schools and communities acting on the knowledge that music is a focal point to which all other parts of learning are related.

Click here to read about this year’s activities