Welcome to Opening Acts
Opening Acts is a great way for young children to get an introduction to music. Children, ages 2-5, and their parents/guardians attend weekly sessions on Saturdays. Together, children and their families will experience music by singing, dancing, and participating in rhythmic and movement activities aimed at developing musical internalization and expression. In addition to being a fun activity for children, this class helps prepare them for enrollment in private lessons by introducing them to different ways of music-making and fostering a sense of musical creativity.
Opening Acts is drop-in friendly, so weekly attendance is not mandatory to participate, and you may start at any point in the semester.
Summer 2025 Schedule
Saturdays at 10:00 AM
Price: $15 per class
Sibling discounts offered to multi-child families
Summer dates:
May 31
June 7
June 14
June 21
June 28
July 5
July 12
July 19
July 26
August 2
August 9
Meet your Opening Acts Instructor
CHRISTOPHER WATSON is a current Junior at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music studying music education. He is also an accomplished instrumentalist studying bass trombone with Dr. Denson Paul Pollard. Christopher has spent two semesters as a member of the IU Wind Ensemble and two semesters with the IU Marching Hundred and has been selected to serve as a member of the Undergraduate Staff for the Marching Hundred. He has also played in a wide range of ensembles, including orchestras, bands, jazz bands, pit orchestras, and more.
As an early childhood music educator, Christopher has studied with Dr. Brent Gault, an expert in early childhood and elementary music education, and has taught lessons in local Bloomington schools.
Opening Acts 2022 students performing at the Spring Recital
