Welcome to Music Together at Bnai Keshet. We’re proud to be the top spot for kids’ music classes in Montclair, NJ.

Each week, a community of families of all backgrounds come together to sing, dance, and play along in a class led by a trained Music Together^® teacher. We offer Music Together® classes to the greater Montclair community, as well as a Music Together® program uniquely designed for Jewish families.

In 2024 Bnai Keshet synagogue welcomed this beloved early childhood music program, offering family music classes for babies and children newborn to age 5. While the program is new to Bnai Keshet, it has long been part of our extended family.  Many of our member families fondly remember taking Music Together® when their children were babies, and some even returned with their grandchildren!

Music Together® was developed in Princeton, piloted here in our neighborhood at the Montclair Cooperative School, and first offered to the public in 1987. The research-based program is recognized as the "gold standard" of early childhood music education around the world. Learn more about Music Together®'s history, research, and benefits here. 

Meet our teacher, Lily Lucey 

Lily Lucey has 20 years of experience working in congregational Jewish life, with a career emphasis on building meaningful relationships through Jewish community.  Lily’s passion for joyful, accessible engagement with ritual and prayer extends to her work with all demographics in synagogue-based communities.  Most recently she served as Shaliach Tzibbur on the clergy team in a Conservative congregation in New Jersey, leading musical prayer experiences for all ages and stages, including traditional services, Tot Shabbat and Preschool Shabbat, family services, teen-led services, and intergenerational services.  In addition to her love of davening traditional nusach for High Holidays and Shabbat, Lily has designed and led many creative prayer experiences, with a particular emphasis on encouraging communal participation. 

She is passionate about engaging youth, teens, and adults in services and synagogue life by designing participatory services and by teaching the skills needed to participate, such as Torah reading and davening.  She will take any opportunity to tailor ritual, approaches to prayer, and programming to the needs of the community.  In her congregational roles, Lily has served as B’nai-Mitzvah teacher and coordinator, religious school t'filah (prayer) curriculum development and teacher, and facilitator of adult education programming such as Rosh Chodesh experiences and mindfulness-focused outdoor programming. 

She also has extensive experience developing content for Jewish holidays, such as writing and directing youth-performed musical Purim shpiels and other creative holiday programming.  In addition to delivering divrei-Torah/sermons for Shabbat and holidays, she also writes poetry and creative rituals.  Lily is a part-time rabbinical student at the Academy for Jewish Religion in New York.