Make music this summer! The Community Music School of Webster University offers a variety of summer music programs for all ages, including Kindermusik® Family Camp (6 months – 5 years); String Orchestra Camp (grades 2-12); Chamber Music Encounter (by audition); Flute Camp (grades 7-12); Band Camp (grades 7-12); Composition Intensive (grades 7-12); Pop Songwriting Camp (grades 9-12); and the NEW Saxophone Summer Intensive (grades 7-12). Kindermusik® Family Camp is offered in 2 locations – Webster Groves and Faust Park in Chesterfield. All other camps are at our main location at Webster University.
Ready to start lessons on an instrument or avoid a summer slump? CMS also offers a six-week summer session of individual lessons on all instruments of the band and orchestra, piano, guitar, and voice. Adults too! Piano and guitar students start at age 6; string students at age 7-8; wind and brass students at age 9-10; and voice at age 12. We have lesson locations in Webster Groves and Chesterfield.
Come check us out and let's make music together!
Camp Dates:
Kindermusik Family Camp: May 30 - July 10, 2024
Flute Camp: June 3-9, 2024
Pop Songwriting Camp: June 3-7, 2024
String Orchestra Camp: June 10-14, 2024
Chamber Music Encounter: June 10-14, 2024*
Band Camp: June 24-28, 2024
Summer Composition Intensive: July 8-19, 2024
NEW! Saxophone Summer Intensive: July 15-19, 2024
Individual Lessons Summer Session: June 15 - August 2, 2024
For more information and registration, visit webster.edu/cms-summer
Registration deadline for most camps is May 15, 2024. *Chamber Music Encounter has an early registration deadline of April 15, 2024.
The Humane Society of Missouri's Longmeadow Rescue Ranch is hosting Wagon Days filled with fun, free activities for all ages.
It's the Not-So-Haunted House that is oh-so-fun and where storybook characters come alive! Kids are invited to dress in their most "boo-tiful" Halloween costumes and have a ghoulishly good time going on a spook-tacular scavenger hunt throughout The Magic House to find trick-or-treat locations, and seeing their favorite storybook characters.
Get into the Halloween spirit with some spooky fun and celebrate with the animals at Grant's Farm. Enjoy Halloween tram rides featuring the headless horseman, Halloween lights, spooky scenes, Mad Science shows at the amphitheater, A Monster Mash courtyard dance party, a bone-chilling scare zone, lots of exciting photo opportunities and more. Costumes are encouraged.
Kids can work on existing gym skills, learn new skills or just play around during Open Gym at Miss Kelly's Gym. Reservations are not necessary.
The Butterfly House becomes The BOOterfly House in October to celebrate all things creepy and crawly. Kids can hang out with Professor Von Flytrap and his friends in the Creepy Crawly Cave and have lots of hair-raising fun.