{"id":145318,"date":"2025-09-25T22:19:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T02:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=145318"},"modified":"2025-09-25T22:19:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T02:19:57","slug":"keep-music-alive-to-celebrate-milestone-10th-annual-kids-music-day-friday-october-3rd-drum-on-anything-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/?p=145318","title":{"rendered":"Keep Music Alive to Celebrate Milestone\u00a010th Annual Kids Music Day \u2013 Friday October 3rd\u00a0+ “Drum on Anything” Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Keep Music Alive to Celebrate Milestone\u00a0<\/b>10th Annual Kids Music Day \u2013 Friday October 3rd\u00a0+ “Drum on Anything” Challenge<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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Over 1,200 locations in all 50 US states, Canada and 15 other countries will participate in the\u00a0MILESTONE<\/b>\u00a010th Annual Kids Music Day<\/b>\u00a0this year\u00a0with special events and promotions that benefit and celebrate kids playing music.\u00a0 Kids Music Day events & promotions will be held between Friday, September 19th<\/sup>\u00a0and Sunday, October 12th<\/sup>.\u00a0\u00a0 Families in the U.S. and Canada can locate Kids Music Day activities in their community by entering their zip\/postal code on the\u00a0www.KidsMusicDay.org<\/a>\u00a0locator page. International locations can be found by scrolling down past the map and\u00a0click\u00a0on their country\u2019s flag.<\/div>\n
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Kids Music Day special events will include musical instrument petting zoos where children get to touch and try different instruments, student performances, free trial music lessons, kids open mics, ukulele\/drum\/guitar circles, instrument donation drives, Kids Music Day sales and more.<\/p>\n

Kids Music Day is supported by a number of popular family-friendly brands including\u00a0Wyndham Hotels<\/b>,\u00a0Royal Farms<\/b>,\u00a0Independence Blue Cross<\/b>,\u00a0CASIO, Kala Brand Music, Les Paul Foundation, Music Nomad Equipment Care, Panyard, Remo Percussion\u00a0<\/b>and\u00a0Taylor Guitars.<\/b>\u00a0 Keep Music Alive is honored to welcome these valued partners, helping to support more kids to start their own musical journey.<\/p>\n

Over a dozen celebrity artists are showing their support for Music Education by lending their name as Kids Music Day Ambassadors including:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Julie Andrews, Jack Black, Ann & Nancy Wilson of Heart, Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo, Michael Feinstein, Kenny Loggins, Richie Sambora, Sarah McLachlan, Vanessa Williams, Victor Wooten, Todd Rundgren, Neil Nayyar, Philip Lawrence, Bernie Williams, Damien Escobar\u00a0<\/b>and\u00a0Mandy Harvey.<\/b><\/p>\n

Information provided to TVL by:
\nVincent James<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Keep Music Alive to Celebrate Milestone\u00a010th Annual Kids Music Day \u2013 Friday October 3rd\u00a0+ “Drum on Anything” Challenge \u00a0 Over 1,200 locations in all 50 US states, Canada and 15 other countries will participate in the\u00a0MILESTONE\u00a010th Annual Kids Music Day\u00a0this year\u00a0with special events and promotions that benefit and celebrate kids playing music.\u00a0 Kids Music Day … Continue reading Keep Music Alive to Celebrate Milestone\u00a010th Annual Kids Music Day \u2013 Friday October 3rd\u00a0+ “Drum on Anything” Challenge<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release-2"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/music-alive-10.jpg?fit=672%2C372&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/145319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}