Please join us for the
4th Annual Watertown MusicFest this Friday March 6th!
What could be better than celebrating with music after a snowy February?
We’ll have lots of music, an instrument petting zoo, pizza, bake sale, and more!
Watertown Middle School
68 Waverley Avenue
5:30 – 9:30 pm
Due to everyone’s difficulties with the snow… we’re extending registration through Saturday, February 28th.
Join us for our 4th Annual MusicFest March 6th!
Link to Registration Form is below.
Call to Musicians!
Friends of Watertown Music is inviting members and friends
of the Watertown community to perform in the
4th Annual Watertown MusicFest
Friday March 6th
5:30-9:30 pm
Watertown Middle School
68 Waverley Avenue
What always makes MusicFest wonderful is the participation all of our performers! We invite musicians of all ages, music styles, and abilities. Please spread the word to relatives, friends, neighbors … Jazz, classical, rock, folk, klezmer, ensembles, duos, solos, instrumentalists, vocalists, beginners, and professionals are all welcome!
Questions? Please contact us at hellowatertownmusic@gmail.com.
Sure you would like to perform? Please fill out this Registration Form by
February 22nd.
We will have an “instrument petting zoo”, pizza, bake sale, and more!
Our Annual Watertown MusicFests have been great community events with over 50 performances each year – by Watertown’s youngest musicians to professionals – on 4 “stages”, allowing Friends of Watertown Music to make more than $12,000 in grants for the direct benefit of music programming in the Watertown Public Schools.
The Schools are matching our most recent grant in a 2.5 to 1 ratio, creating a 0.4 FTE position at the Hosmer School that includes pre-school and pre-kindergarten music classes in addition to ensuring that elementary students across the district receive music education classes with an appropriate student : teacher ratio. The Middle School Jazz Band, originally funded by a 2012-13 Friends of Watertown Music grant, is now incorporated into the school budget.
Help make 2015 our best year ever!
2014-15 Grant!
Friends of Watertown Music is pleased to announce a $5,863 grant to the Watertown Public Schools to ensure that all elementary students receive music education classes with an appropriate student:teacher ratio. This support will help reduce the burden on overextended music teachers throughout the system.
The Schools are matching our funds in a 2.5 to 1 ratio, creating a 0.4 FTE position at the Hosmer School that also includes pre-school and pre-kindergarten music classes.
The Middle School Jazz Band, originally funded by a 2012-13 Friends of Watertown Music grant of $6,800, is now incorporated into the school budget. One of our key goals has been to fund initiatives that are then sustained in the general school budget. We continue to work with the School Administration to respond to needs identified by the music teachers and create opportunities for the students! We have every expectation that this year’s grant will also function as seed money and allow the cost of the new position to become a permanent part of the music program.
We would like to thank all of our supporters for their generous gifts of time and money toward our educational mission, and we invite as many as possible to join us at the Wednesday, November 5, 2014 School Committee meeting (Town Hall, 7 pm) for the presentation of our grant.
We look forward to your continued engagement in music in Watertown Public Schools, and we’ll see you on March 6th for the 4th Annual Watertown Music Fest!
Friends of Watertown Music 