Beamsville Music Studio and Grimsby Music

09/20/2026

Yay! I love autumn. Bring on the cozy! 🍂🍁🪾🎃🌙 🍁

09/15/2026

New teacher alert 🤘🎶 Kennedy Shaw is an experienced teacher and trained bassist who graduated from Guelph University with a Bachelor of Arts in Music. As a teacher her goal is to provide students with a strong musical foundation while helping students build confidence and find their own unique sound. Whether you’re picking up the bass for the first time or you’ve been playing for years, Kennedy is able to deliver fun personalized lessons based around your goals and interests. Call 905-324-5121 to book lessons

09/10/2026

09/08/2026

Happy first day of school! Fall term begins today for music lessons as well. 🎶🎸🥁🎹🎻 Have a great day!!

08/26/2026

As a little girl Dolly was a real life Barbie for me- plus she played guitar and sang!! What a great role model she was. RIP Dolly Parton ❤️‍🩹🎶🌹

08/22/2026

It’s happening! The live re-broadcast of A National Celebration is tonight, worldwide and commercial free. 

Here’s how you can tune in:
- CBC Music’s YouTube channel and CBC Gem at 7pm ET 
- CBC TV at 7pm local (8pm AT / 8:30 NT)
- CBC Radio at 7pm local (7:30 Nfld & Maritimes, 7 AT Labrador)
- CBC Music at 7pm (7:30 NT)
- CBC Radio on SiriusXM (ch. 169) and The Tragically Hip Radio (ch. 757) at 7pm ET 🇨🇦

08/17/2026

We are looking for piano teachers! Please send a resume or questions to [email protected] We are also looking for a guitar teacher. This is for in person teaching at one of our studios. 🎶

08/16/2026

Had so much fun last night at Alexisonfire celebrating my kiddos 16th bday. Great concert, great crowd and forever memories ❤️

08/02/2026

You were taught that singing is a talent, something you either have or you do not. Science says something different: singing is a biological mechanism, one that does something inside your body almost nothing else can.

Much of this research comes from Dr. Daisy Fancourt at University College London, who studied what actually changes in the blood and saliva of people when they sing. She found that singing triggers three separate biological systems at once: endorphins, your natural painkillers; oxytocin, the bonding hormone that lowers stress; and immunoglobulin A, a frontline part of your immune defense. Three systems, switched on together, by your own voice. And singing is not just loud talking to the brain, it engages regions tied to emotion, memory, and reward differently than speech, so the same words, sung, travel an entirely different path. Think of your body like a pharmacy: most activities unlock one medicine at a time, while singing opens three at once, all free, no prescription required.

Ancient traditions seemed to know this long before the lab confirmed it, from Gregorian chant to Sufi devotional singing to healers across cultures who used the voice as a primary tool. One honest note, though: most strong studies use group singing in controlled settings, and solo everyday singing has fewer large trials, but across all of them, singing consistently improves mood, lowers cortisol, and activates immune markers.

So use your voice today, and it does not need to be good, your body responds to the act, not the quality. Five minutes, one song, or even a hum, which stimulates your vagus nerve directly.

REFERENCES:

Fancourt et al. (2016). Singing, immune function, and stress hormones. Ecancermedicalscience.
Kreutz et al. (2004). Singing, immunoglobulin A, and cortisol. Journal of Behavioral Medicine.
Dunbar et al. (2012). Singing, endorphin release, and social bonding. Evolutionary Psychology. ❤️

07/31/2026

Wishing everyone a happy midsummer Civic long weekend!!! We are closed and no lessons Sat to Mon. Beamsville office is closed Tues to Thurs but lessons go on as usual. ✌️ 🏕️☀️🕶️🏖️