Maple and Spruce Music Academy

07/01/2026

Happy Canada Day! 🇨🇦

Music brings us together and Canadians bring so many different cultures together which means we get to experience fantastic music from around the world.

We hope you spend today celebrating with family, enjoying the start of summer break, and maybe keep an ear out for some music!
Bonus points if you check out your RCM books for some of the fantastic Canadian composers featured in the repertoire ❤️

06/30/2026

Forest City School for Strings and M&S are looking for a Camp Counsellor to support us from July 20-31 at our annual daycamp.

$18/hr
40 hours per week
8:15am-4:45pm with a 30 minute unpaid break

Come and join an awesome team to assist us in delivering a fantastic experience for our campers. The camp counsellor duties include supervision during recreation times and breaks, assisting with coordinating the movement of students between classes and activities, assisting with lunch, supervising sign in and sign out each day, and helping to coordinate with the volunteers to ensure that faculty members have support in each class.

Experience with children is a requirement.
First Aid and CPR need to be obtained.

Music knowledge is an asset but not required.

To apply, please send your resume and cover letter to [email protected] with the Subject: "Camp Counsellor"

Apply for the Summer Camp Counsellor job in London, ON! Learn more about the job description, salary, and job details to see if you qualify on Indeed today.

06/17/2026

Sarah, Elizabeth, Mary, and John surprised Alyssa in between lessons with a beautiful rendition of Happy Birthday arranged and rehearsed all on their own! Such a sweet gift to use their skills and talents to perform something so beautiful!

06/01/2026

We have a giant list of people to thank for this weekend.
And being the terrible photographer, I didn’t get a group picture of the team!

First and foremost, our amazing volunteer and Leader-in-Training team who were extra eyes, ears, arms, and legs! From supervising cabins, preparing meals and snacks, cleaning up, and playing basketball endlessly with a few eager kiddos, our team really made the weekend special.
To our volunteers, Davyne, Paul, Dan, Nash, Sheila, Rujuta, and Ajay: I couldn’t have done this without you!

To our LITs, Yuna, Elliot, Remi: your leadership as players and mentors gave our younger students something to aspire to musically and as people. You are truly the best of the best!

Big thank you to Camp Kee-Mo-Kee for hosting us! It was the perfect setting for our weekend retreat.

And lastly but not leastly, my amazing colleagues. Jeff and Anna are some of the most generous teachers I know. Giving of their time, attention, and talents in ways that are hard to describe. It’s the caring thought they put into every sentence, every demonstration, and the caring ways they deliver feedback.

Thank you to everyone for a fabulous weekend!

Lots of love,
Alyssa

06/01/2026

Our kiddos played so well today!

They fueled up at breakfast this morning and used the mountains of bacon, eggs, and hashbrowns to power through 2.5 hours of rehearsal and then performed a concert for families.

We’re going to sort through all the videos and pictures and share them with you over the next few days!

But that’s a wrap on the first Strings in the Woods!

Thank you so much to all of our volunteers! We couldn’t have done it without you ❤️❤️❤️

05/31/2026

Day 2 of Strings in the Woods and in addition to 2 rehearsals and a sectional with Alyssa, Jeff, and Anna, our students were busy hiking, doing crafts, taking an archery lesson and now watching Mary Poppins to wind down for the evening! Concert tomorrow after lunch!

05/30/2026

A little pre-lunch jam session!

05/30/2026

05/30/2026

Day 1 of Strings in the Woods and we have had an awesome dinner, played games, started rehearsals, and ended the night with a bonfire and smores!

Day 2 brings lots of rehearsal and lots more fun!

05/12/2026

Jeff and Alyssa are thrilled to be playing the Trout Quintet tomorrow evening with their good friends Patrick, Dan, and Vladyslav!

Get your tickets online or at the door!