What began as a series of porch concerts in Brooklyn has evolved into dozens of students meeting with teachers for music lessons. Their notes echoing between stately Victorian homes. Then, once a week they practice as a band, to prepare for concerts.
. Pianist Aidan Scrimgeour, who had joined the nightly jam sessions back in 2020, has now become a leader of the nascent porch school.
Djahlisa Fenelon, 13 and in the 8th grade at Mark Twain middle school, was looking for a way to take singing lessons, but didn’t want to do them on Zoom. The porch lessons gave her the chance to practice both her singing, and her songwriting skills, in person. “Obviously it wasn’t easy to be a teenager in a pandemic, it wasn’t easy to be anyone in a pandemic,” Serrano said. “So to see people playing together was really amazing.”
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