Singing for 7 year old girl
I am having a difficult time finding a singing opportunity for my 7 year old (2nd grade) daughter. We live in Oakland and have after school until 6 during the week. And can't do Crowden's Saturday morning time. Other non-church options for the weekends (especially Sundays)? Thanks!
Jul 9, 2018
Parent Replies
Pacific Boychoir Academy now has a girls afterschool choir.
See http://www.pacificboychoir.org/OurChoirs
Its on Tuesdays from 4:15-6:15 and the choir leader is wonderful.
The excellent program includes music theory training.
My son has participated for 5 years!
Check out Oakland Youth Chorus. It's a great organization.
San Francisco Girls' Chorus has a program at Crowden, although it's also on Saturdays, just a little later in the morning. Not sure if that would work any better than the Crowden chorus time. Generally, we found that everything was either Saturday mornings or weekday afternoons, so I think if you want to do it longterm you need to make one or the other of those work with your family's schedule. Piedmont East Bay Children's Choir and Pacific Boy Choir (which also has a girls' choir) both have weekday afternoon practices; Oakland Youth Chorus is a little later in the afternoon. We determined that the only way to really make it work was to pick up early on a weekday, which may or may not be an option for you. You might also look into whether there's enough interest at your school to start an afterschool choir program.