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Friends of Colchester Music

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“Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education,
​because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.”  – Plato

Colchester Music Needs YOU!
You may recognize us as the group that sells flowers and DVD’s at concerts and hold the giant Krispie Kreme fundraiser for music programs.  Friends of Colchester Music is an active group of parents, community members and music teachers who advocate and fundraise for all the music programs in the Colchester School District. 
None of our fundraising activities can happen this fall due to COVID
but our music students and teachers still need our support. 
Maybe now more than ever!
In an effort to reduce the impact COVID had on our music programs we purchased:
  • materials to make bell covers for the brass instruments at the high school 
  • individual music kits for our elementary students
  • six pianos for the middle school 
  • twenty one piano bags for the high school. 
We need your help to keep this up! 
​If 300 families from across the district donated just $20 we could almost replace the lost revenue from our Krispie Kreme fundraiser!
Please make a gift today!
​Click here to donate securely online:

​OR

You can mail a check written out to FCM to:

 MaryFran Holly
121 Buckingham Drive
Colchester, VT 05446

 CONCERT FOR EQUITY - FUNDRAISER

CHS Band students have opportunity to teach someone else the instrument they play. The person learning the instrument will be learning the first five notes on the instrument, as well as a short song that uses those 5 notes. The end goal is to have all of the learners assemble on stage at the Spring concert March 31st, and perform this small song together.
It's being called "Concert for Equity", because this is also a fundraiser for 3 charitable organizations in our area that do great work for students/people dealing with inequitable situations. Those three organizations are the Vermont Refugee Resettlement Program, the Vermont Food Bank, and COTS. These three organizations have had, and continue to have, a substantial impact on the lives of some of our students who are most in need.
This is how the fundraiser works - whoever learns the instrument will "pay" for the 4-5 lessons on the instrument chosen. That payment will go straight to those 3 organizations as a donation. The suggested donation is $20, but it could be less or more than that, whatever is possible. Total funds raised will be split evenly between the three organizations.

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Time to Buy The Doughnuts!!

​Friends of Colchester Music is holding it’s annual Krispy Kreme Donuts fundraiser for the Colchester School District music, band, and chorus programs. Krispy Kreme donuts are being sold sold for $10 a dozen and will be delivered fresh to Colchester High School on November 7. 

You can order donuts from your favorite band or chorus student or through the order link above. Orders will be accepted until 5pm Friday, November 4. 

The Details:
Donuts will arrive on Thursday, November 7. If you order from a student, they will deliver them to you. If you order online, you'll need to come by the Colchester High School cafeteria on November 7 between 2:30 and 6:00pm. The donuts are perishable, so they MUST be picked up on November 7!

All profits from FCM fundraisers go to the music programs in the Colchester School District, which, in addition to regular music classes, engage more than 500 Colchester students from 5th grade to 12th grade in band and chorus programs.
 Thanks for your support!
Looking for other ways to help out
and get involved?
Check out our Fundraising & Donations
page or join us at our next meeting!
PLACE YOUR ORDER SECURELY
​ONLINE TODAY!
Dozens of Donuts
Name of Student Selling
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Friends of Colchester Music

We are an active group of parents and music teachers who advocate and fundraise for all the music programs in the Colchester School District. We would love to have your support at our meetings and at music events. Please join us!

Students Should Perform Music:
...so they will be human
...so they will recognize beauty
...so they will be sensitive
...so they will have something to cling to
...So they will have more love, more compassion,more gentleness, more good - 

in short...more LIFE!

Contact Us

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 FCM meeting are held  on the second Tuesday of the month in the Colchester Middle School band room from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.