Community Partners

Music is a collaborative art, so we create programming collaboratively.

Collaborative programs are like musicians coming together to form an ensemble. By partnering with more than 70 Upper Valley organizations, we create programs that no one organization could provide by themselves and, in the process, access the multi-dimensional benefits of music education.

Student perform using instruments they created.
Multi-generational music making.
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Upcoming Partnership Events

Mamadou Diabate balafon

African Percussion Workshop with Mamadou Diabate

Saturday, September 20,
3:30 pm to 4:30 pm EDT
Free
Kilton Library

This workshop and presentation will introduce West African Polyrhythms through the balafon, a traditional African wooden xylophone, and other percussion instruments including tension drums, barrel drums, cowbells, and shakers.

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UVMC instructor Draa Hobbs playing guitar

John Stowell & Draa Hobbs: Jazz Guitar Concert

Monday, September 22,
1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
Free
Kilton Library

Upper Valley Music Center teacher Draa Hobbs is joined by John Stowell for a concert of jazz music for guitar. …

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Carolan Workshop & Jam Mini-Fest

Friday, October 10,
5:00 pm to 7:00 pm EDT
Workshop: $15, Jam: Suggested $15, Concert: Free
Upper Valley Music Center

Join us for a mini-festival and celebration of music by Turlough O’Carolan (1670-1738), Irish harper and composer.

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Classes Offered with Partners

African Percussion & Melody Ensemble

October 2025

This course will introduce participants to West African music polyrhythms through the balafon, a traditional African wooden xylophone.

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Caregivers and babies respond to music.

Music Together Babies™


Open up the world of music-learning for your new little one!

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A family enjoys music class with young children.

Music Together®: Mixed-Age


For children birth through five and their grownups. Learn and play musically together!

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Children make instruments and then compose music with their new instruments in UVMC and AVA Gallery’s joint summer camp.

Partnerships 2024-25

Arts & Culture Organizations

AVA Gallery & Art Center
Avaloch Farm
Boulanger Initiative
Choral Arts Foundation
Classicopia
DC Youth Orchestra Program
Hopkins Center for the Arts
Interplay Jazz
Junction Arts & Media
Lebanon Opera House
Music School of Delaware
Muskeg Music
Northern Stage
Opera North
Revels North
Young Traditions VT

Schools

Hanover High School
Lebanon High School
Richmond Middle School
St Mary’s School, Annapolis, MD
White River School

Independent Artists and Studios

Annie McDougall
Ben Kogan
Cantrip
Elizabeth Borowsky & Vytautas Kiminius
Eben Bodach-Turner
Eric Boodman
Ernie Drown
Jake Blount
Jane Hershey
Jes Raymond
Justin Rodig
Oak Hill Music Festival
Pedro Giraudo Tango Quartet
SBW Studio
Steve Lundahl
Sunflower Quintet
Tommy Mesa
Villalobos Brothers

Young children make music with ‘Grand friends’ in UVMC’s partnership with the Aging Resource Center.

Social Service and Civic Organizations

Carter Community Building Association (CCBA)
Christ Lutheran Church DC
Cobb Hill
Covered Bridge Half Marathon
DH Women’s Health Resource Center
DH Arts & Humanities Program
First Congregational Church, Lebanon
Geisel Medical School
Grafton County Senior Citizens Council
Harvest Hill
Howe Library
Kendal at Hanover
Lebanon Farmers Market
Lebanon Public Libraries
Lebanon Recreation & Parks
Margaret Pratt Community
Montshire Museum
Plainfield Library
Quail Hollow Senior Living
Special Needs Support Center
Stowell Library
The Family Place
Twin Pines Housing Trust
Twin River Children’s Center
Upper Valley Business Alliance
Upper Valley Senior Center
Vital Communities
Waypoint
Wellspring Church

Businesses

Ellis Music
Lucky’s Coffee Garage
Vermont Violins