New in 2025 – Summer Singers Voice & Piano Camp for 7 to 10 Year Olds! Learn about singing, with an intro to piano basics that all singers can use. Make music and new friends, too! Grow your musical skills this summer. Make music while learning about your voice and about the piano. Let instructors
Ascencion Music Academy takes music-making and rhythm play to Duck and to Nags Head in June, July, August and October. Bring the whole family to participate in these FREE, interactive events. These family-friendly celebrations of rhythm, music-making and story-telling are toddler and young child centered musical explorations. Grownups are welcome (and needed)! Eight opportunities –
In class, we are about the process of music making, rather than performance. Children are discovering their own musicality and learning musical concepts in age-appropriate, holistic ways. In class, we are about the process of music making, rather than performance. Children are discovering their own musicality and learning musical concepts in age-appropriate, holistic ways. Hearing and responding back to melodic patterns with the voice and to rhythmic patterns with instruments, experiencing a steady beat in body movements, listening closely to sounds to identify them, telling stories through sound and movement, dancing, singing folk songs and lullabies from around the world – these are just a few of the ways in which our youngest musicians begin developing their musicianship and musical skills. One child’s response to a new song might be singing, while another child’s equally good response might be listening. Music is its own reward.
Music for the community is a highlight of our purpose at Ascencion Music Academy. Our students offer their musical gifts at student recitals, for the Grateful Friends benefit concert series, in masterclasses, during community events such as Artrageous and the Outer Banks Lively Arts Forum, at festivals, and for our local assisted living facility Spring
Local musicians donate their music gifts, benefitting local non-profit organizations who serve our Outer Banks neighbors in crisis. Quarterly performances are held at Grace Lutheran Church in Nags Head. Beautiful music of all kinds, family-friendly. No tickets or purchase necessary. Donations are welcome!
