History

2009-10:

• Members of the NBYO board go on learning tour of Venezuela.
• NBYO launches a bilingual prototype centre at Beaverbrook School in Moncton with 50 students playing stringed instruments.

2010-14:

• Expanding on the success of the prototype centre, the Moncton centre expands, adding wind, brass and percussion instruments.
• Three additional centres are launched, in Saint John, Richibucto and Tobique First Nation.
• Enrolment increases to 550 students daily and Teaching Artists employed to 38.

2014-19:

• Current centres grow and add more students.
• Five additional centres are launched in Miramichi, Fredericton and Tracadie along with two satellite centres in Hillsborough and the Elsipogtog First Nation.
• Enrolment increases to more than 900 children daily.

2019-21:

• Enrolment continues to increase to 1,100 children daily, the largest program of its kind in Canada.
• 58 Teaching Artists are employed, the largest employer of artists in Atlantic Canada.
• Cultural impact is enormous with 149 performance events and 80,000 people attending in the pre-covid year.