Kayla Hughes is the owner and director of Music Together Resonate, a company she fell in love with from the first class she experienced! After taking the Music Together training with a friend in 2007, she took over as Director in 2008 when her friend moved away, and she has never looked back! Having also just completed a degree in Music Therapy, Kayla knew the transformational power of music in a therapeautic setting and simply wanted to witness this magic every day, whether working with clients, families, or playing with her own children! 

In 2010, Kayla attained Certification Level 1 from the Center for Music and Young Children in Princeton, NJ, having demonstrated outstanding achievement in teaching, musicianship, program philosophy and parent education, and in August 2016, she was awarded Music Together Certification Level 2 for demonstrating mastery in those areas. She loves to help bring communities together through music. Kayla is mom to two kids and wife to Willy, aka "Mr. Teacher Kayla". 

Becky is thrilled to be joining the Music Together Resonate family! She joyfully sang and danced in Music Together classes for six years with her two daughters when they were younger. Long before that, she graduated from Connecticut College with a Major in Human Development and a Minor in Dance. Becky has worked with children and families as a dance teacher, choreographer, nanny, and preschool teacher. She currently teaches pre-k at A Child’s Way. 

Becky’s favorite musical memory is of performing at Carnegie Hall in 2019 alongside singers from around the world. She loves musical theatre and can often be found in the audience of musical productions if she isn’t on stage herself. 

Becky loves to sing, dance, and be silly with her friends, her family, and her three year-old corgi. She can’t wait to share that energy with you in her classes!

Brittany is so excited to bring her joy for music to you and your family!  She loves kids, music, and theatre.  In fact, she discovered Music Together while rehearsing for her role as Mrs. Quimby in "Ramona Quimby" at Beaverton Civic Theatre's rehearsal space in the Cedar Hills Mall.  She was pregnant at the time, and made a mental note to look into Music Together once the baby was born.

Teacher Cocoa (Colette Sweeney) is so excited to be on the Music Together Resonate team!

Cocoa's family moved to California from Scotland when she was about 3 years old and music was always very present in her home! Her mum was always singing and her dad was a drummer in a band! She thinks music is truly one of the greatest gifts you can give your children. 

Cocoa received her Music Together Specialist certification in 2016 and taught Music Together In School for 6 years in Los Altos, CA, while also being a preschool teacher!

She recently moved to Portland with her fiancé and absolutely loves it here (the rain and the trees remind her of Scotland)! When she’s not teaching, she enjoys hiking, traveling, enjoying live music, watching cooking shows, or cuddling up with her 2 cats (Toby and Lyra) and reading books.

Libby Stokes is a wife and mother of three children who moved to Salem from Los Angeles in 2012. She was a “Music Together Mom” from 2007 until 2013, when her twins started preschool.

She sang in the top choirs at Riverside Poly High School and Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, graduating from LMU in 1999 with a degree in Sociology and a minor in Music and Vocal Performance. As a Music Together mom in LA, Libby's teacher asked if she would ever consider teaching. That idea had to be put on hold for almost ten years while Libby and her husband Ben raised their children. But then.... Libby completed her Music Together Teacher Training in 2016 and has loved it! 

Libby's instrument of choice is the ukulele, which she has been noodling on since 2017. She highly recommends it to everyone. And with a local public library (shout out to Salem Public Library!) that will check them out to anyone with a library card, there's no excuse not to give it a try!

Lindsay completed her Canta y Baila Conmigo^® (CyBC) training in 2023. She learned about CyBC while attending Music Together Resonate as a parent! The combination of music and language learning was a perfect fit! Lindsay holds a bachelor's degree in Spanish from Whitworth University. She also has a lifelong enjoyment of music, including piano, choir, and musical theater. Besides teaching CyBC, Lindsay leads Spanish storytimes for Washington County libraries.

Meg completed a degree in Music Therapy and became a certified music therapist in 2011, when she also completed her initial training as a Music Together teacher. She worked in 2012–2014 at a private clinic, where she used music to teach life skills one-on-one to children with disabilities. During this time, Meg helped teach a parent-child class at a local community college, with her role focusing on teaching parents how to engage with their infants and toddlers through music. She also loved being the children’s music leader at her church. After having a child of her own, Meg shifted her focus from clinical work, and decided instead to share the joy and power of music with children and their parents. She retrained with Music Together in 2019, and looks forward to sharing her belief that everyone can benefit from more music in their lives!

Tessa is so excited to be a part of the Music Together Resonate family. It was in 2020, when her oldest was born, when she first experienced a Music Together class. Classes were online and when the world reopened they joined in person in Salem and has been in classes ever since. Tessa was born and raised in the Portland metro area, and it was here that she met our wonderful director and friend Kayla. Tessa graduated HS with a major focus in vocal performance after years of singing in Concert Choirs, Women's Choirs and Vocal Ensembles. In 2012, Tessa moved to Salem, Oregon to attend Corban University. She finished with a degree in Psychology: Youth and Family Studies where she was also very involved in the vocal music scene on campus. Since graduating in 2016, she has been a Pre-K Teacher and Project Manager before becoming a full time mama to her two precious littles. Tessa is eager to be back in a classroom sharing her love of music and dance with a side cup of silliness with you! 

As a musician who hoped to give her children the gift of music, Diane signed her infant son up for Music Together as soon as possible so that she could to get him off on the right foot. That was in 2005! Now Diane gleefully joins the Music Together Resonate family, but on the other side of the guitar, as a teacher. Diane has a varied background having worked for a decade as a mental health therapist and for 15 years in Marketing for Microsoft. In 2012, she started teaching piano, guitar, violin, and ukulele out of her home. She fills a unique niche in the Beaverton musical community in that all her students sing while they accompany themselves on their instrument. Her student recitals shine as students perform solo and ensemble pieces along with a band of professional musicians, as proud family members cheer them on with applause, whoops, and hollers. While little brings Diane more joy than shared musical experiences, she also treasures spending time with family, reading, long distance running, and being outdoors doing literally anything.