Miming the letters M, Y, C , voices raised together the young students of the Music for Young Children showed - and told - their audience how they felt about the 35-year-old program.
"We love you," they sang, arms crossed over their hearts.
It's a tune that's being sung across the province as teachers and their students celebrated the 35th anniversary of the music program, which started in Nova Scotia and is now taught to 24,000 students on three continents.
In Prince George, four teachers bought out dozens of students donning bright yellow T-shirts to form one great big choir.
"The reason I started teaching MYC is because it was the way I wanted my children to learn music," Melanie MacDonald told the crowd at St. Andrew's Church Sunday before introducing her daughter Nicole, who played a sonata.
It also raised money for the B.C. Children's Hospital - a cause close to the MacDonald's hearts.
"I had a child who was facing a severe impairment and receiving help for her to be healthy... it was important she receive the best care she could get," said Melanie.
That meant going to Vancouver and while they weren't comfortable talking details, they said the care Nicole got at eight, has made all the difference to her 17-year-old music-loving self.
"I think it's important," Nicole said shyly, who was happy the Prince George group raised more than $3,200 for the hospital.
Nicole started playing piano when she was four years old and is now a teacher to 10 of the students who took part in the event.
"It brought me to tears," said Lisa Siakaluk, one of the music teachers who organized the event, after watching 22 of her students perform with the others. "To see everyone so unified for such a good cause."
"It's really grown from where it started on (the founder's) kitchen table in Nova Scotia," said Shoshanna Godber, who teaches at the Prince George Conservatory.
"The B.C. teachers wanted to come up with some way to celebrate," said Godber, and so a Cranbrook teacher wrote the song performed Sunday.
The students got pledges for each day of practice, reinforcing the idea of "kids helping kids," Godber said.
"It's reciprocal," she said, adding like Melanie she started teaching the program for her children.
"We fell in love with it," Godber said. "We really believe it."
