Children’s Prep Music Studio director Kathleen Mackey King leads her students during spring demonstrations. The children played instruments, sang songs and demonstrated what they learned this spring. (Ben Hillyer / The Natchez Democrat)

Children’s Prep Music Studio students take a bow at the end of their spring demonstration Monday after in the studio at the Natchez senior center. (Ben Hillyer / The Natchez Democrat)

Lyla Wood sings during the spring demonstrations with her hippopotamus puppet. (Ben Hillyer / The Natchez Democrat)