🎉 Join us for JOMPFest! 🎶
An afternoon of family fun, music, and community 💛
📅 May 30
⏰ 2–5 PM followed by more music - swipe to see the full lineup! ➡️
📍 1 Gorham Street, Worcester
🎻 Live music @deuxamiscajun
🎨 Kids activities
🍦 Ice cream truck
🥳 @busybeejumpers_worcester
Bring your friends, bring your family—everyone’s welcome!
🔗 Learn more: jomp.org
#JOMPFest #WorcesterMA #WorcesterEvents #FamilyFunMA #LiveMusicMA
Just two weeks away!
We know this time of year is full of places to be, but this is one you won’t want to miss. 🌼🎻
Our final youth orchestra concert of the season, directed by Timothy Terranella, and a special sendoff for some of our graduating musicians 🥹
Free admission - come early to find a seat and join us!
#WorcesterMA #JOMP #Burncoat #YouthOrchestra #May2026
🎶 Music starts with connection.
From babies shaking a tambourine for the first time to children singing, dancing, clapping, and learning rhythms together, JOMP Start classes provide a pathway for families with infants through age 7, with each step building on a child’s innate musicality.
These moments from our spring Saturday classes capture what we celebrate at JOMP every day: joyful learning shared together ❤️
Want to experience it for yourself? Join us at JOMPfest on May 30 for an afternoon of family-friendly music-making, activities, and performances throughout the school.
We can’t wait to welcome the community into our space 🌻
#JoyOfMusic #CommunityMusic #MusicEducation #WorcesterMA #FamilyMusic
From their holiday concert in December to working with Midori in March, this year’s JYO musicians have grown not just as performers, but as friends.
Last week’s spring concert here at home was a celebration of that community: laid-back swing from our high school jazz combo, beautiful ensemble playing from the orchestra, and a virtuosic performance of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto by concertmaster @alex_p_hernandez_w .
We also celebrated our 10 graduating seniors 🥹 with a sunflower cake and plenty of JYO family spirit - including a few younger family members who joined the fun, too ➡️
So proud of these students and the memories and music they’ve created together this season. Shoutout to JOMP faculty members @mixolydeus , @angel_violins , @philipandrews826 , and especially @tterranella for guiding them through it all ❤️
#JYO2026 #SpringConcert #Graduation
#JoyOfMusic #YouthOrchestra
What a wonderful way to celebrate Mother’s Day and conclude this year’s Faculty Concert Series.
Thank you to violinist Aaron Packard and cellist Sara Wilkins for an engaging and expressive performance in the Joseph & Jordan Shapiro Concert Hall featuring works by A.R. Thomas, Villa-Lobos, Benjamin Godard, and Erwin Schulhoff.
We’re grateful to everyone who joined us for this special afternoon of music and community, and we thank all of this year’s faculty and guest performers, patrons, families, students, and sponsors for a wonderful concert season. We look forward to sharing more music with you next year! 🌻🎶
#JoyOfMusicProgram #JOMP #WorcesterMA #FacultyConcert #ChamberMusic
Students of Nancy Ackerman lit up their 12th annual Spring Spree 🌷🎶
From duets to full ensemble (with a few parents joining in!), this growing tradition brought together music, community, and joy—ending, as always, with their favorite grand finale. ➡️ Bravi tutti! 👏🏼
📸 by Caroline Reiner-Williams
#JOMP #ChamberMusic #Year12 #TraditionContinues #WorcesterMA
A beautiful way to spend Mother’s Day 💛
Join us for Choros 2, the final performance in our Faculty Concert Series:
🎻 Violinist Aaron Packard + guest cellist Sara Wilkins
🗓 Sunday, May 10 | 4 PM
📍 Shapiro Concert Hall
Suggested donation $20–$25 • supports student access to music education at JOMP 🌻
#LocalMusic #CommunityArts #LiveMusicNearMe #SupportTheArts #WorcesterMusic
There is still some space in our upcoming Spanish, Sensory Play, and Little Explorer’s classes. Can’t make all 4-weeks? Purchase a drop in pass! There are only a few available per week in order to maintain a low ratio.
Drop in passes available here: https://bearsplayspace.as.me/?appointmentType=category:Drop%20In%20Passes
4-Week Spanish Class (starts tomorrow🤍) here: https://bearsplayspace.as.me/?appointmentType=87780689
4-Week Friday Outdoor Sensory Play: https://bearsplayspace.as.me/?appointmentType=91301553
4-Week Thursday Drop Off Little Explorer’s: https://bearsplayspace.as.me/?appointmentType=92232179
4-Week Saturday Outdoor Sensory Play is at capacity but there are limited drop in passes available. ❤️
📍The Joy of Music Program
1 Gorham St Worcester MA
Join our growing play community at Bear’s Play Space. Affordable, enriching, and communal. 🧸🤍 Our classes are filling quickly, be sure to keep checking back to see what new classes we are offering! Best for ages 0-5.
🦋 Outdoor Sensory Play
📚 Little Explorer’s Drop Off
🇪🇸 Spanish Classes for Little’s
🏠 Family friendly events
Register at: www.bearsplayspace.as.me
📍The Joy of Music Program
1 Gorham St. Worcester MA
We’re still smiling three days later ☺️👏🏽
Strange & Lovely: An American Song Recital, curated by faculty artist Sarah Callinan, brought together voice, piano, and violin in a program of American song - playful, poignant, funny, and full of storytelling.
With Sarah Callinan, soprano, Monica Corey, piano, and Aaron Packard, violin.
Thank you to everyone who joined us for the 4th installment in this year’s faculty concert series!
#FacultyRecital #AmericanSong #Worcester #JOMP #ConcertRecap
Thank you to everyone who joined us for our open house with the @joyofmusicprogram ! As a reminder, our enrichment classes and play sessions are available to book at www.bearsplayspace.as.me
To learn more about JOMP start music classes, visit their website at:
At Bear’s Play Space we currently have a 8 child maximum in our classes in order to maintain safe ratios. So be sure to sign up sooner rather than later as many are filling up! We hope to see you this Spring. 🌿🧸
How does it happen so fast? First Twinkle duet to first Handel-Halvorsen performance (6 years later) 😍🥹
Not only are they a sibling duo, but their instruments are related, too…
2021 violin made by @angel_violins 🎻
2025 cello made by @angel_violins 🎻
#thenandnow #growingup #childhoodmemories #musicaljourney #fullcircle
