About this episode

Cindy and Dawn discuss the significance of family singing with Nate and Jess Roberts, exploring musical education and the role of folk music.

This week on The New Mason Jar Podcast, Cindy and Dawn have Nate and Jess Roberts on to talk about singing together as a family How Jess and Nate first learned about Charlotte Mason's philosophy What is Nate's role in teaching other families and students about folk music and musical discipleship? Why should we sing? What is the importance of folk songs and hymns in musical education? Why should the whole family be involved in singing? A little about Solfa or Solfege What are canons and why are they so valuable to sing? To view the full show notes for this episode, including quotes and links to the resources mentioned, please visit https://thenewmasonjar.com/135 .

People in this episode

Hosts: Cindy Rollins, Dawn

Guests: Nate Roberts, Jess Roberts

Topics covered

• family singing
• Charlotte Mason philosophy
• musical education
• folk music
• musical discipleship
• importance of singing

Keywords

• family
• singing
• folk songs
• hymns
• musical education
• Charlotte Mason
• Solfa
• canons

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Charlotte Mason

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