Strings

Meet Our String Instructors

Rosemary McKerley

My name is Rosemary McKerley and I am a senior at the Connecticut IB Academy in East Hartford. I have studied the violin for 10  years and have played in orchestras at the Hartt School of music for 3 years. I have also studied flute and piccolo for 7 years and have participated in 4 regional music festivals. I have been teaching flute privately for a year and violin here at Song A Day Music since 2020.

Jim Hammitt

Jim has been performing music from Western Pennsylvania to New Hampshire, with Blue Horizon, as guest member of (rai)2, with The Mann Brothers, and as a soloist. Currently, he is half of the folk duo RJ.


Jim instructs guitar, banjo, mandolin, and ukulele.

Joyce Knowlton