Ballad & Co. partners with Chicago schools, families, and communities implementing music into classrooms, homes, and communities. We offer a range of services from Early Childhood Music and classroom programming to private lessons and curriculum development.

Our curriculum guides young people to take ownership over their musical ideas and voice to achieve our core mission of community building through music.

We start essential ensemble skills at a young age- watching, listening, sensitivity, flexibility, and adapting - essential skills for collaboration and community



Ballad & Co. accepts and supports everyone equally and believes everyone has an expressive voice. We value learning through self-esteem and exploration. Students, we believe in pulling everything out of your teachers and teachers, we believe in pulling everything out of your students