The Monday Blues, the Monday Fog, Manic Mondays – there are countless ways to lament the end of the weekend and the beginning of a new work week. But today, students from across the country are singing a different tune.

Today is Music Monday, a day to celebrate the importance of music in everyday life and especially in our schools. More than 700,000 students from over 2,000 participating schools will raise their voices in a simultaneous nation-wide concert, demonstrating the incredible unifying power of music to transcend ethnicity, class, gender, even geography. Music classes from every province and territory in Canada are performing a rousing rendition of the song “Sing Sing” written by multi-Juno-Award-winning musician Serena Ryder. And such an event cannot be contained by school walls, these classes are also taking their project into their communities so every Canadian can experience this incredible experience.