Kingston is a small town, with a relatively large music scene.
In town there is one specialty music store, Music Unlimited, which is well stocked and makes music easily accessible for all ages (http://www.musicunlimitedonline.com/index.html).
All 4 public schools is town have extensive Music Departments. Concerts and recitals are performed regularly at the Middle and High School, and the high school band performs at all football games, as well at local parades and functionsin the surrounding towns. A copy of their Music Department Calendar is available at http://slrhs.slrsd.org/departments/music.
The Kingston Recreation Department provides a wide variety of music and dance programs for all ages. They offer "56 club" dances every month for 5th and 6th graders where they dance with a DJ, Elementary Music Theater, On Your Toes with Tracey Dance Classes, Glee Club, Joy of Music Class, Recorder Club, Violin Classes, and Ukulele Club. All this is available for sign-up at http://www.kingstonrec.com/info/activities/.
There is also Open Mic Nights held weekly at Finna's Tavern, one of the Irish bars mentioned in the Irish section, as well as live music performed weekly at Waxy's the other Irish Pub in the Irish section. Open Mic Night at Finna's is usually hosted by local bands and anyone is welcome to go jam.
Kingston also has a very active "Garage Band" culture happening constantly. There are jam sessions and Battle of the Bands shows popping up, seemingly on the fly, everywhere in this town. They're hard to find if you don't know people involved, and they're easy to miss even if you do, but I, personally, went to them constantly when I was teenager. They happened at least once a week, sometimes at someone's literal garage, and sometimes at the local Knights of Columbus or Beal House, ranging every level of musicianship and professionalism out there. It all is very fluid and constantly evolving, but it is always there.
The local Churches also have small exhibitions of local musicians on a fairly regular basis. However, most of these parishes are very small, don't have a website, and may not even announce these shows. They just happen sometimes, unplanned, or else they're only really known to the patrons of the church. But the churches are always involving music in some way keeping that tradition alive.
jDespite a rich cultural background, and a heavy music scene, there is very little ethnic music opportunities in town. The school music departments do an excellent job creating diverse music performances, all throughout the year, however. Aside from that, there are very little extra curricular ethnic music programs outside the schools. If someone wants to experience music from their ethnic background, they must go outside the town. They do not, however, have to go far. Irish step dance and various styles of ballroom/latin ballroom are very popular in the area, just not within the town lines of Kingston, due to it's small size.
In town there is one specialty music store, Music Unlimited, which is well stocked and makes music easily accessible for all ages (http://www.musicunlimitedonline.com/index.html).
All 4 public schools is town have extensive Music Departments. Concerts and recitals are performed regularly at the Middle and High School, and the high school band performs at all football games, as well at local parades and functionsin the surrounding towns. A copy of their Music Department Calendar is available at http://slrhs.slrsd.org/departments/music.
The Kingston Recreation Department provides a wide variety of music and dance programs for all ages. They offer "56 club" dances every month for 5th and 6th graders where they dance with a DJ, Elementary Music Theater, On Your Toes with Tracey Dance Classes, Glee Club, Joy of Music Class, Recorder Club, Violin Classes, and Ukulele Club. All this is available for sign-up at http://www.kingstonrec.com/info/activities/.
There is also Open Mic Nights held weekly at Finna's Tavern, one of the Irish bars mentioned in the Irish section, as well as live music performed weekly at Waxy's the other Irish Pub in the Irish section. Open Mic Night at Finna's is usually hosted by local bands and anyone is welcome to go jam.
Kingston also has a very active "Garage Band" culture happening constantly. There are jam sessions and Battle of the Bands shows popping up, seemingly on the fly, everywhere in this town. They're hard to find if you don't know people involved, and they're easy to miss even if you do, but I, personally, went to them constantly when I was teenager. They happened at least once a week, sometimes at someone's literal garage, and sometimes at the local Knights of Columbus or Beal House, ranging every level of musicianship and professionalism out there. It all is very fluid and constantly evolving, but it is always there.
The local Churches also have small exhibitions of local musicians on a fairly regular basis. However, most of these parishes are very small, don't have a website, and may not even announce these shows. They just happen sometimes, unplanned, or else they're only really known to the patrons of the church. But the churches are always involving music in some way keeping that tradition alive.
jDespite a rich cultural background, and a heavy music scene, there is very little ethnic music opportunities in town. The school music departments do an excellent job creating diverse music performances, all throughout the year, however. Aside from that, there are very little extra curricular ethnic music programs outside the schools. If someone wants to experience music from their ethnic background, they must go outside the town. They do not, however, have to go far. Irish step dance and various styles of ballroom/latin ballroom are very popular in the area, just not within the town lines of Kingston, due to it's small size.