Founder, Director & Registered Music Together Teacher

Making music at home, with family, is my earliest musical memory. I feel very fortunate that music was part of not only my family culture, but my West Virginia / Appalachian heritage as well. My Mother was deeply enamored with cultural traditions of music making, musical storytelling, singing, and dancing, and I grew up listening to her vinyl collection, which contained everything from Gregorian Chant to Frank Zappa.

After moving to Austin in 1988, I threw myself into music all through high school. Choir shaped my confidence and craft, and I went on to study piano, guitar, and music theory.

Being a young adult in the 90s meant my years were filled with myriad genres of live music and musical immersion in the kind of community that put Austin, Tx on the map as one of the most musical cities on Earth.

After high school, I jumped right into an intensely fulfilling career in educational curriculum publishing at Holt, Rinehart & Winston (later to be known as Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Education Company). It wasn’t until our first son Milton was born, that it occurred to me to apply my love of music and education to early childhood. So, for the love of my passions and my children I went in search of the very best music education program out there and was delighted to find Music Together.

All children ARE musical. I started tuneBugz! using the Music Together curriculum/method to make sure that all parents have the opportunity to raise musical families and so that we break down any barriers. Every parent can improve the quality of their child’s life - simply by playing musically at home - regardless of their own musical ability.

What is on my heart is making sure every family has access to the joy and beauty of music-making that everyone deserves.

Amber holds an Internationally recognized Director's license from Music Together in exceptional standing since 2009 for family and community classes, In-School programming for school based music and movement programs and Canta y Baila Conmigo (Spanish Immersion Music and Movement for Early Childhood.)

Registered Music Together Teacher

Keerthi, a  life-long lover of music making, singing and playing her violin is also a doctoral student under the mentorship of Dr. Jun Wang at the University of Texas at Austin. Keerthi works as a graduate research assistant in the Speech Disorders and Technology Lab. She received her Bachelor's degree in Neuroscience from UT Dallas in 2023. Her research interests include better understanding the cognitive processes underlying speech planning and production as well as speech kinematics, borth typical and disordered. 

Keerthi completed her Music Together Teacher Training in Spring 2024, apprenticed in the Fall 2024 and will begin her Music Together teaching adventure in Winter 2025! 

Registered Music Together Teacher

Sara is a singer, songwriter, visual and graphic artist and expert in early childhood music development. Sara is passionate about music education and music expression and works behind the scenes at tuneBugz! to support our social media and mentoring programs that produce the very BEST early childhood music educators in Austin!

Though now retired from the classsroom Ms. Sara remains one of our most beloved teachers, mentors and all around silly billies!  

Sara has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Psychology and Studio Art and received her Music Together training in April 2014 at the Center for Music and Young Children in Princeton, NJ - the "Mothership" of Music Together.  

Sara's music, art and graphic recording can be supported here: https://www.snillustration.com/ & here: https://www.instagram.com/snillustration/

This class will be taught by a trained and Registered Music Together teacher who has successfully completed Music Together Worldwide's renowned teacher training program and completed their full apprenticeship with practicum.