CASTAWAY KIDS
MUSIC PROGRAM

Music education is a long-standing emphasis of Castaway Kids due to it's powerful impact on children's intellectual, social and emotional learning.  In January 2019, we moved our Steel Pan Music Program from Guaymas to San Carlos where the local community warmly welcomed us. Classes were originally held in an old building in the Ranchitos area of San Carlos.

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With so much interest from our community, we expanded the program and built new classrooms for instruction in steel pans, percussion and brass behind our main building in the center of San Carlos.  Our long-term vision is to continue to grow our music program in San Carlos for local school kids who currently have few opportunities for extra-curricular activities.  As the numbers of children participating in the music program grew we also added guitar instruction to our program.

 

To that end, we will always accept donations of musical instruments and band sponsors to help make the program a success.  We are particularly looking for trumpets, trombones, saxophones, and percussion instruments.  We encourage monetary donations to help compensate our instructors and purchase needed supplies.

 

The steel pan band also receives a huge boost from frequent visits by Char Lusk and Ansel Joseph, steel pan instructors from Phoenix.  They volunteer their time to provide instruction, tune instruments, and provide essential guidance to our instructors and students.  They have also donated many steel pans.

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The Music Program provides the many benefits of music to children who have no other means of achieving this enrichment and positive impact.  We currently have 29 kids in the program and we want to make the classes available to more. The program operates 5 days a week from 3:00 until 5:30.

Without this program, many of these kids would be out on the streets.
The kids love to have visitors drop in during classes!