Studio Cindy

10/27/2025

6 wks till
🎄Recital!
Please Practice!

10/15/2025

10/07/2025

Dear Music Students~

It’s only 60 days till our Christmas Concert at Brookdale Farms!
We are providing music for a very special event, The Christmas House by Trinity UM Church on Saturday, December 6th starting at 9 am. It’s so much fun with lots and lots of Christmas things, and so much great food!
The church will be providing chairs for our students/families.

We want to do our very best, playing piano, other instruments or singing, even some choreography this year! It won’t happen without regular and adequate practice!

I know we are all very busy, but it only takes a little time and effort to practice your Holiday songs! Set an alarm for a time each day or every other day if that’s all you can do. Please do your best to be prepared this Christmas Season!
December 6th is early in the month, so NOW is the time to prepare. Please!
Thanks!

Cindy 🎹🎄

10/05/2025

Hannah! Check out the focus and the technique with her curved fingers… She’s six years old and she loves piano! I’m so amazed at the popularity of this instrument and all the students… the new students that have contacted me in the last few months! Over eight new ones this summer. I’d like to welcome my latest…Logan, 11 yrs old and I taught his mom Megan when she was little! Logan is doing so well! He is a joy to teach!
Music for Life! 🎹🎶

10/01/2025

Yesterday I met a future Piano Student, Miss Charlotte Rose Ann! Look at those beautiful fingers! We are hopeful that she’ll play Piano or maybe Violin!? She is so adorable, and her siblings are providing her with so much love and attention, and entertaining her with their songs on the Piano! Congrats to all her family! 💖🎶

09/30/2025

Can’t wait to share this with my BUMFS little kids music class today…now during Apple Butter making week in Burlington! Don’t forget to support the work we do for all the kids/youth at BUMFS by coming this weekend to Apple Harvest Fest on campus at BUMFS. Saturday and Sunday!

Learn it. Live it. At least when you're walkin' the orchard! This song, sung by Dennis Day, was part of the short 1948 Disney classic," Johnny Appleseed"; A...

09/18/2025

Studio C Students are excited about our upcoming Christmas Concert on December 6th at Brookdale Farm! It’s going to be fun and entertaining and is in conjunction with a huge Christmas Bazaar sponsored by Trinity UM Church with great food and so many beautiful decorations and gifts! I am requiring my Piano Students to be at their very best for this event! Practice, practice, practice! This song from Hillary is one of my all-time favorites, called Silver and Gold. 🎹🎶🎄

09/01/2025

This will forever be a treasured, framed gift from a young sweetheart… JoJo. I’ve known her several years and she apparently soaked up so much about music from my classes and has also taken an interest in guitar. I love this girl and I am praying everyday she finds joy and a family to love her unconditionally. She deserves happiness. I am beyond sad to see her go, even though I’m sure somehow it has to happen to get her moving on through the system to hopefully a wonderful foster family. (😭). She is like family to me but I know she has to move on and I hope her dreams come true! We try to make life better for these kids while they’re with us at BUMFS and then wish them the best when they go. Thank you sweet JoJo for your smile and the wildflowers given to the music teacher each week and just the joy you have that is amazing after all you’ve had to deal with in your short life. I pray your future is bright and unbelievably happy always!!!! I will miss you so much! Love, Cindy

08/26/2025

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08/24/2025

Every Sunday, a sweet choir member brings me a wildflower on her walk to our Music Room on the BUMFS campus. She has been with us in Burlington longer than any other resident that I can remember and I’ve recently tried to prepare myself for the realization that she will soon be moving on. This girl loves life, even though hers has been difficult. She has enjoyed music classes so much! She has blossomed into a pretty teenager and today she told me she’ll be leaving in a week or so. I really had to hold in the tears….but I want nothing more than for her to find a family that will love her for who she is and help her to grow and make a good life. She has had a roller coaster of a childhood and she deserves a great future. Please pray that she and all the kids that pass through Hope Lane in Burlington find a better life ahead. I cringe when I see everyday kids in our world outside of Burlington, who are spoiled and don’t appreciate all they have.
Having a loving family is at the top of the wish list for BUMFS kids/teens and the hurt is real. We will send her off with a Rootbeer Float party next Sunday and so many hugs she will feel the love. 💖

07/09/2025

I am so proud of this young lady. She started hopping on the piano bench at about 3yrs old when her older sister took lessons. She officially began a couple of years after that and she has done so well! She just completed her first lesson book! She is very talented!🥰🎹Yay Brooke!

05/27/2025

Hey, Facebook is such a great way to unite us in praying. Please pray for my Music kids from Burlington Childrens Home as they graduate, make decisions on their future paths, head home, or to Foster Homes. They need God to protect and guide them. Thanks. 🥰🎶