Erin Jenkins Smith
Music Together
Erin Smith, is a fiddler, early childhood music educator, contra and square dance caller, and passionate arts administrator. She has worked in non-profits in the arts and youth services sector for more than 15 years in program management and fundraising, including six years at the Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, building campus and community engagement in performing arts residencies. Erin has a BA in Psychology from Clemson University and an EdM in Arts in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She has completed the Emerging Leadership Institute through the Association of Performing Arts Presenters (2016) and Leadership Upper Valley through Vital Communities (2022). She has served as a grant panelist for the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts and is chair of the Norwich Dance Committee.
Erin completed the Music Together(c) teacher training in 2018, and in 2024 Music Together Worldwide awarded her Music Together Certification Level I for outstanding achievement in teaching, musicianship, program philosophy, and parent/caregiver education. Erin teaches Music Together at UVMC and has taught music and dance in schools, camps, barns, day-cares, dance halls, and senior centers. Music has been a big part of her life since at least age 3, when she started Suzuki violin lessons, and now she plays bass and fiddle for dances and community events. She loves bringing the joy of making music and dancing together to all ages, whether teaching a class of toddlers and parents, leading a hall full of dancers, or welcoming new participants into UVMC programming.