Family Music Events in Duck, Nags Head and Manteo in 2026

2026 Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration poster

2026 Hope for the Holidays Annual Coat Drive in Manteo

Hope for the Holidays 2025 flyer
Adding musical cheer to a wonderful annual event at the Pea Island Coookhouse Museum. Music, carol singing, cookies and hot cocoa. What’s not to like? Date and time TBA.

2026 Dowdy Park Tree Lighting and visit with Santa …

Dowdy Park Tree Lighting 2025
Our students will be there there, adding festive music to a lovely experience for all! Saturday after Thanksgiving, in the evening.

Duck Jazz Festival …

DUCK JAZZ FESTIVAL for LITTLE CATS – Duck Town Hall.

Everybody Wants to be a Cat! And musical cats are really cool, especially jazz cats. Little jazzers, bring your grownups and your cat ears and join in this family music event. Groove and make music, dance and tell stories about our bebopping feline friends.

Children ages 0-7. No money! The price of admission is one grown-up per child. Duck Jazz Festival is for young musicians too.


Later this year …

Ascencion Music Academy will take music-making and rhythm play to Duck and to Nags Head in June, July, and August. Family members from one to ninety one participate in these FREE, interactive events. Celebrations of rhythm, music-making and story-telling: toddler and young child centered musical explorations. Grownups are welcome (and appreciated)! Duck Town Meeting Hall, Dowdy Park in Nags Head, Duck Amphitheater. 2026 Dates and Times TBA.


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