At Ocracoke School, Lou teaches the After-School Music Club program.  He also directs the Youth Center “Flat Cat Café” at the Community Center each month.
Both Marcy and Lou taught during Arts Week this spring.  Lou instructed, demonstrated and produced a music/sound recording workshop while Marcy offered a sub-workshop of lyrical songwriting.  Several students elected to take the songwriting workshop and one group wrote a song and recorded it on Thursday, with their classmates playing all the instrumentation “in the studio” while they sang the vocal tracks.  The CD recording of their

song “Chiming Heart” was played for the Friday-morning Assembly for the school, families and community.  Original hip-hop and techno recordings by the students were played for the crowd along with rowdy covers of “Taking Care Of Business” and “Red House” played live and loud.

Marcy, an American Cancer Society Advocate and member of Relay for Life, also directs the children’s music program at Ocracoke Island United Methodist Church. Children on Ocracoke Island are raised with songs being sung at home, gatherings,
on the front porch and at school and so are an enthusiastic and musical bunch.