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title: "‘An advocate for music education’: Singer-songwriter Tracy Bonham works to teach, save music at Brooklyn preschool"
description: 90’s alt-rock star Tracy Bonham has traded in grungy music venues for brightly-lit preschool classrooms.
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# [‘An advocate for music education’: Singer-songwriter Tracy Bonham works to teach, save music at Brooklyn preschool](https://www.prp.group/client-family-news-and-announcements/an-advocate-for-music-education-singer-songwriter-tracy-bonham-works-to-teach-save-music-at-brooklyn-preschool)

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Not many of Brooklyn’s preschools have a familiar name from the 1990s music scene as a teaching artist for its young students.

But the Brooklyn Preschool of Science has just that in Tracy Bonham, a two-time Grammy nominee best known for her angsty single, “Mother, Mother,” off her 1996 debut album, “The Burdens of Being Upright.” Although the schools’ brightly-lit classrooms may be a far cry from the music venues Bonham spent the 90s performing in, these music lessons have given her a new pathway to not only express her love of music, but even save it for future generations.

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