Seattle Baby Jam is an award winning music class for kids ages birth to five years old. Preschoolers, toddlers, babies, and kids from all backgrounds are welcome to attend. We offer fun, engaging, safe, low-pressure rhythm and music exposure for young ones. Help nurture your child's cognitive development through hands-on drumming, percussion, and multilingual songs, stories and games. 

 Our class is a parent and child interactive music and movement experience. We focus on entrainment, rhythm, expression, creative movement and having fun while making music with your little one!  Through repeated exposure to the songs and rhythms that we play in class, your child will have the opportunity to develop their music and language abilities. 

We drum, dance, play and sing songs in English, Spanish, and Hebrew. We tell stories using a felt board and colorful figures that spark your child's imagination. We also have a jam at the end of our class that is lead by May and Blake. We like to encourage parent participation. If your child sees you playing and having fun, they are more likely to do the same! Plus, it gives you another way to connect with your child and begin developing a lifelong appreciation for music, language, song and dance. 

Come jam with us in a low-pressure, safe, language enriching, fun family vibe!
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Blake Cisneros and Mayrav Kessler 
Co-Founders of Baby Jam.

Blake has been teaching and playing Afro-Caribbean drum and dance music for 27 years.  He has studied intensively with drummers and dancers from Cuba, Haiti, West Africa, and Brazil. Blake has experience working with youth and adults of all ages and backgrounds as a drum and dance teacher and group facilitator. He has lead classes in Washington, New Mexico, New England, California and Hawaii. 
He has facilitated and taught programs for Oprah Winfrey, Power of Hope, Hawaii Public School District, the YMCA, Arts in Education NM, Western Washington University, REI, Bellevue College, North Seattle College, University of Washington, and X8 Interactive Drumming. 
He is passionate and honored to share with others this beautiful journey of rhythm and movement. Blake currently resides in Seattle, WA with his partner May and their 16 year old son Aviv who is a musician and drummer in the Nathan Hale Jazz band. 


May was born in Jerusalem Israel and raised in Seattle in the Fremont neighborhood. She has 27 years of experience in early childhood education. Fluent in Hebrew, May brings a sense of joy and playfulness to the classes. Her background is working as a professional early childhood educator and Nanny. Her favorite time in Baby Jam is the felt board tales, and getting the group to sing and play together. May loves the positive community connection that our classes create, and hopes to further develop the Baby Jam family network.  
She is also a solid percussionist with 13 years of drum study. May strives to create a seasonally based program that incorporates songs and stories from cultures around the world about nature, love, kindness and compassion. She weaves together her own original songs with familiar tunes and curates a selection of children's books for each class.