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Community Programs
Todos Juntos Learning Center
Todos Juntos serves families with bilingual educational experiences. ACMS provides Early Childhood Music family classes and classes for the children at Todos Juntos.
AISD Child Development Centers
ACMS serves teen parents in Austin Independent School District by bringing weekly Early Childhood Music Classes to the infants and children at the nurseries of Travis High School and Navarro High School Child Development Centers. ACMS also holds educational sessions for the parents to help incorporate music into their home lives.
Navarro Child Development Center is a teen parent program that allows students to drop off their child so that they can finish their education. I am an infant teacher at navarro and my job is to care for these children as well as help them grow developmentally.
The benefits that I have experience through these music classes is that it builds language skills. As children learn about an instrument they become accustomed to different sounds that they would not have recognized before. This practice trains their ears for the sounds of language. When children can play music, it makes them happy... and everyone else, too.
- Analina Tellez, Navarro High School CDC Infant Teacher
veterans music program
The ACMS Veterans Music Program is a free program for Veterans that meets weekly on Thursday evenings from 6 pm - 9 pm at Armstrong Community Music School (ACMS) located at 404 Camp Craft Road Austin, TX 78746. Free music making and song writing experiences are led by ACMS teaching artist, Anthony Basini. If you or anyone you know is interested in joining the Veterans Music Program please call 512-474-2331 or email [email protected].
The SAFE Alliance
The SAFE Alliance serves survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault and exploitation, and child abuse. ACMS provides music classes at SafePlace and the George M. Kozmetsky Charter School. Our programming for this organization focuses on the therapeutic nature of music as a healing force, featuring music appreciation, playful movement activities, and instrumental jam sessions for children.
Belmont Village Senior Living
ACMS partners with Belmont Village to bring musical enrichment into the lives of senior residents. This program brings together families with young children and senior residents for intergenerational music classes.
We are the Chorus
We Are the Chorus and We Are the Chorus, Too! are choral groups of individuals with disabilities and their friends and family, which serve as the resident choruses of ACMS. We Are the Chorus was founded in 1999 by parents of young adults with disabilities. We Are the Chorus, Too! began in the spring of 2018 and is rapidly growing. Members of We Are the Chorus present a Fall concert and Spring Musical. We Are the Chorus, Too! meets weekly at ACMS for faculty-led rehearsals and performance opportunities.
Working with We Are The Chorus has been one of the most rewarding activities in my life. Watching these individuals with mental and physical limitations sing and act and interact with each other is really heart warming. They are very supportive of one another. Their musical abilities have improved over the years and We Are The Chorus has built confidence not only in the chorus but also in their jobs and other social activities.
- Judy Ward, We Are the Chorus Director