Over the Moon Music to Expand in Scarsdale

Over the Moon Music and More LLC, featuring Music Together classes in Scarsdale, Chappaqua, Mount Kisco, Tarrytown, and Tuckahoe, will celebrate its 10th year in business on June 20, 2015. In conjunction with the anniversary and the continued success of the company, owner Jackie Freimor has announced that she is expanding the Scarsdale storefront location -- Over the Moon Music's headquarters at 78 Garth Road – with 3,000 additional square feet and new offerings including birthday parties, parent-child art classes, a children's imagination play space, an area for Music Together concerts and other special events, and a retail shop for art and music supplies.

According to Freimor, "I started the business with 25 Music Together classes, four locations and five teachers with about 200 families enrolled. Now we have five locations and offer close to 40 classes a week. I am so proud of our growth, and most importantly how Westchester county families have embraced the value of Music Together and the gift of making music with their children for the past ten years!"

In addition to Music Together classes for children and their caregivers, Freimor also teaches Music Together Guitar for Grownups, as well as Uke U., a mommy-and-me beginner ukulele program developed by Freimor. With these offerings, Over the Moon now averages between 350 and 400 families enrolled each semester.

Earlier this year, Freimor brought on co-manager and co-director Nicole Zinn, to help support the company's expansion. Zinn has more than 20 years of experience as an executive in corporate communications and advertising. She will be bringing her expertise in the visual arts to parent-child art classes in the new space.

Freimor explains, "By bringing on a business partner and constructing a space three times the size of our original studio, we are taking Over the Moon to where I had always hoped it would go -- to become a Westchester destination for fun family play through music and art. I am thankful to the community here in Scarsdale, as well as at our teaching locations in Chappaqua, Mount Kisco, Tarrytown and Tuckahoe, who have greatly contributed to our success."

Zinn adds, "I am so excited to be part of Jackie's dream of expanding Over the Moon to bring additional family offerings to the Westchester community."

Freimor has been performing as a singer and guitarist since she was a child in Queens, NY, and played her first professional gig at age 15. She is a self-taught pianist, and also plays the lute and the viola da gamba. Most recently, she was the rhythm guitar player and backup vocalist in a Manhattan-based alternative rock band, Liquid Scintillation Cocktail. She first experienced Music Together when she enrolled her daughter in the program in 2003 and she remains eager to share her and her daughter's experience and deep love of the program with other families. Freimor began her first semester as a licensed Music Together center director in 2005.

Music Together is an internationally recognized early childhood music program for babies, toddlers, preschoolers, kindergarteners, big kids, and the adults who love them. Launched in 1987 the Music Together curriculum, coauthored by Kenneth K. Guilmartin and Dr. Lili Levinowitz, is based on the recognition that all children are musical. All children can learn to sing in tune, move with accurate rhythm, and participate with confidence in the music of our culture, provided that their early environment supports such learning. Music Together offers programs for families, schools, at-risk populations, and children with special needs, in over 2,500 communities in 41 countries around the world. The company is passionately committed to bringing children and their caregivers closer through shared music-making and helping people discover the joy—and educational value—of early music experiences.

More information visit www.OverTheMoonMusicAndMore.com or contact Jackie Freimor, 914-722-2025, [email protected]