SAAC Music Trail
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The Pilot Club of Starkville has distributed its new “Music Trail Guide” to accompany the nine instruments on The Music Trail at McKee Park located on Lynn Lane in Starkville. The new Guide contains information about the instruments along with suggested activities for organized play. The Guide is being made available at elementary school libraries, preschools, the Starkville City Library, Boys and Girls Club, Starkville Area Arts Council, the Travis Outlaw Center, and available for download below. Organized groups will find the Guide a valuable resource when visiting The Music Trail. Pilot Club hopes that groups from schools, Scout organizations, churches, and others will make use of this Guide and will plan trips to The Music Trail. The Music Trail Guide was compiled by Dr. Robert Damm of MSU Music Education Partnerships along with Ellen Goodman and Ellen Boles of the Pilot Club. Special funding for the Guide was provided by the Starkville Rotary Club.
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Playground versions of a soprano marimba, a tenor marimba, an alligator drum, rain wheel, a palm pipe drum, a kalimba (thumb piano), an amadinda and a bass metallophone, along with a pre-school music station are installed along the meandering Music Trail. The instruments are specifically accessible to children with disabilities and may be enjoyed by all children.
The Music Trail is made possible in part by grants from the Pilot International Foundation, Healthy Starkville Committee, and the Starkville Area Arts Council along with generous donations from the Starkville Junior Auxiliary Crown Club 2010-2011, the Starkville Kiwanis Club, the Starkville Civic League, Starkville Rotary Club, Cadence Bank, and East Mississippi Lumber Co. Collaborating partners include the Starkville Parks and Recreation Department, MSU Landscape Architecture, and MSU Music Education Partnerships. The Pilot Club of Starkville shares in the mission of its international organization to “transform communities by developing youth, providing service and education, and uplifting families” with a special focus on brain fitness. To that end, the local club is working to enrich our community by providing mentally stimulating, fun infrastructure available to all children throughout the city and surrounding communities. Research shows that hands-on music experiences benefit the brain by improving intellect and reasoning skills, as well as providing many other benefits.
The Starkville Pilot Club is planning to extend the concept of musical playgrounds to J.L. King Park in the near future. A long range goal of the club is to make Starkville known as “The city of music play!” The club anticipates eventually adding playground instruments in other parks and areas in town.
The Music Trail at McKee Park is open to the general public on a daily basis. To reserve the Trail or to obtain more information, contact the Starkville Parks and Recreation Department at 323-2294 or pilotclubofstarkville@gmail.com.
The Music Trail is made possible in part by grants from the Pilot International Foundation, Healthy Starkville Committee, and the Starkville Area Arts Council along with generous donations from the Starkville Junior Auxiliary Crown Club 2010-2011, the Starkville Kiwanis Club, the Starkville Civic League, Starkville Rotary Club, Cadence Bank, and East Mississippi Lumber Co. Collaborating partners include the Starkville Parks and Recreation Department, MSU Landscape Architecture, and MSU Music Education Partnerships. The Pilot Club of Starkville shares in the mission of its international organization to “transform communities by developing youth, providing service and education, and uplifting families” with a special focus on brain fitness. To that end, the local club is working to enrich our community by providing mentally stimulating, fun infrastructure available to all children throughout the city and surrounding communities. Research shows that hands-on music experiences benefit the brain by improving intellect and reasoning skills, as well as providing many other benefits.
The Starkville Pilot Club is planning to extend the concept of musical playgrounds to J.L. King Park in the near future. A long range goal of the club is to make Starkville known as “The city of music play!” The club anticipates eventually adding playground instruments in other parks and areas in town.
The Music Trail at McKee Park is open to the general public on a daily basis. To reserve the Trail or to obtain more information, contact the Starkville Parks and Recreation Department at 323-2294 or pilotclubofstarkville@gmail.com.
