Empower Your Students through Music

Our SEL Music Assemblies & Classes
Build Self-Confidence and
Prevent Bullying

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*Formerly known as Music with a Message

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Confident Concerts Guitar & Music Production Classes: Arc Highlight Reel- Dec 2025

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Build Confidence in your Students through Original Billboard-Charting Music

Our empowering music helps these important Social Emotional Learning skills last in your students’ heads for decades, as catchy music stays with us for years!

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Elementary School Assembly

Looking for a fun, interactive assembly that supports your students' bullying prevention and SEL goals? Our dynamic music performance includes instrument play, power poses, and affirmations that build self-confidence and foster a growth mindset. We offer plenty of opportunities for students to participate! Get their wiggles out through music, movement, and meaningful learning while leaving a lasting impact. Foster a culture of kindness and resilience at your school by creating a community of Upstanders with our elementary school assembly!

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Middle and High School Assemblies

Need an assembly that actually resonates with middle and high school students? We meet students where they are, using music, movement, and mindset strategies to help them rebuild self-confidence after bullying and prevent it from happening again. Students learn how to normalize negative thoughts, reframe self-talk, and develop mental health tools to build resilience. We’ve witnessed even the most “hard-to-reach” students put arms around their classmates, start the wave, and foster community.

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Empowering Music Classes

Our empowering music classes are now available in elementary and middle schools. Our teachers incorporate important SEL methods into every music class they teach.

Available Classes:
Guitar
Music Production
Ukelele
Songwriting
Singing
Empowering Music and Movement

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Testimonials

“I was blown away!"

Lynn Renter, Middle School Counselor
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Over 13,000 Students Empowered Through Music by Focusing on Three Cornerstones:

1 Social Emotional Learning

2 Growth Mindset

3 Bullying Prevention

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Our Story

Confident Concerts was born from the personal journey of Billboard-charting artist and motivational speaker Caley Rose, who transformed her own struggles into a mission to uplift and empower students through the power of music.

As a young singer, Caley faced years of bullying and low self-esteem that followed her well into adulthood. It wasn’t until she began studying psychology at Columbia University and writing her own music that she discovered the tools to build true self-confidence. Determined to help others avoid the painful path she had walked, Caley partnered with leading child and teen psychologists to combine her love for music with proven mental health strategies: Confident Concerts.

Formerly known as Music with a Message, Confident Concerts is a Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) assembly and a music curriculum. Confident Concerts uses empowering original pop music, student participation, and positive psychology to teach lasting lessons in bullying prevention, self-confidence, and growth mindset. Our music education classes use these methods to teach guitar, music production, and empowering music and movement to students K-8th grade. Confident Concerts performances and classes are both fun and engaging, designed to leave an imprint that sticks with students long after the music ends.

Confident Concerts is also the co-creator of MAD Creators Day Camp, with locations in Santa Monica, CA and Boulder, CO.

www. MADCamps.org

“Catchy music helps empowering SEL concepts last in audiences’ heads for decades!”
– Caley Rose

With music featured on Top 40 radio, TV, commercials, and film, and a background that includes performing Off-Broadway, Caley brings both star power and heart to every performance. Her work has been featured on Parents.com, NPR, ABC, FOX, Forbes, Telemundo, received grants, and more. Her motivational keynote, “Why Not You?” has inspired thousands at events like the Teacher Wellness Summit and Authentic Rebel Speaker Series.

Today, Caley is touring the country bringing joy, resilience, and confidence-building experiences to students everywhere.

Why Did Music with a Message Change to Confident Concerts?

When I first launched Music with a Message, I had no idea it would grow to reach students across the country — empowering over 11,000 young people (and counting)! At the beginning, I didn't even have a website; I simply had a mission: to help students who had been bullied build self-confidence through empowering music.

As our impact grew and our reach expanded, it became clear that a stronger online presence was essential. However, the URL for Music with a Message was unavailable, despite several attempts to secure it. Rather than letting that limit our growth, I saw an opportunity to align our name even more closely with our vision. Confident Concerts captures both the heart of our mission and the vibrant, empowering experience we create for students.

I’m thrilled for this next chapter under our new name — and look forward to continuing to inspire confidence and resilience in the students we serve.

Caley Rose, Creator of Confident Concerts

Exciting news! Our Empowering Music and Movement class is now available at Citizens of the World Charter Schools in Hollywood and Mar Vista!
Brave Ones and Game Over are being taught by our excellent teachers @elizacarringtonguitar @ryangaughan and @sammyhakim!
This is such an exciting moment for Confident Concerts.
Catchy music lasts in students’ minds for decades, and these tK-2nd graders will be reminded that they’re “one of the Brave Ones” for their whole lives 💪🏻🎶

Such a fun time today in Reading, MA meeting new Brave Ones!! 💪🏻🎶

Give kids instruments.
Give them great teachers.
Watch them fly. 🎸✨

Huge props to @ryangaughanguitarcoach + @freeguitars4kids.
How good is this student?!
Name the tune ⬇️

@freeguitars4kids thank you so much for creating such special moments for our @arcexperience students @new_la_charter_ ! What a special way to end 12 weeks of hard work.

Our Confident Concerts middle school music students at @arcexperience will perform this week for their second time ever! They’re ready to rock the stage thanks to ARC + our teachers @ryangaughan and @h.b.thal! Thank you @freeguitars4kids for the gift of guitars to help make this possible!! 🎸

Confident Concerts is on Santa Monica.com! 🎉🥳
This Sunday Dec 7 we are performing a FREE all ages show at the @SantaMonicaYMCA
Come inspire your whole family with music that will empower kids and adults 💪🏻🎶
1-3 pm

This Brave One wanted her moment on the mic and rocked it!! 💪🏻✨🎶

Moments like this brought to you by incredible sponsors of Confident Concerts show @theartpodcast and @thesongwritingschool !! Thank you for making these shows possible!

We are so proud of these students for sticking with their guitar classes and practicing to get to this point! Performing for your peers is the scariest thing you can do, and THEY DID IT!!! We gave our fellow performers all our best tips: remember that the audience is rooting for you, remember that mistakes are how we learn, and keep that self-talk positive! ✨✨

Smiling students preparing to rock the stage today!
Thank you for these guitars @freeguitars4kids for @confidentconcerts and @arcexperience!! ✨🎶 @ryangaughan @caleyrose

Thank you @freeguitars4kids and @vintageguitars_official for these parlor guitars for our students in the Confident Concerts + @arcexperience after school music program!! These students did not have music instruction last year, and you helped make it possible this year! ✨🎶 Our students are learning so much from @ryangaughan and @h.b.thal !!

Confident Concert Music Classes are rocking with @arcexperience at New LA Middle School! These lucky students are learning music production from a professional music producer @h.b.thal!

We here at Confident Concerts are SO excited to be bringing guitar and music production instruction to New LA Middle School through the @arcafterschool program!!

🎵 Students involved in music score higher academically.

Research from the Journal of Educational Psychology found that high school students who took music courses scored on average 11% higher in science, math, and English exams than their peers who did not.

Ready to motivate these students and teach about EMPATHY today through live music!! 🎧 💗🎶

So THRILLED to announce that this week began our exciting new beginning: Confident Concerts now brings music classes into schools! 🎸 🎧

When I learned that middle school students at a school in LA didn’t currently have music education, I passionately wanted to make a change. So did their awesome administrators!

We welcomed 2 incredible new music teachers to the @confidentconcerts team, @ryangaughan and @h.b.thal, who are teaching the students guitar and electronic music production!! 🎶✨

We are so THRILLED to announce that yesterday was our FIRST EVER Confident Concerts music class!!! 🎸 🎧 We teamed up with @newlamiddleschool to bring their students guitar and production classes for the next 12 weeks!! These amazing students didn’t get to have music instruction last year, and now they have our incredible teachers @ryangaughan and @h.b.thal bringing them empowering music education all semester long!! 💪🏻🎶

Tomorrow! @misschellemindset and I will be talking about Confidence Tips for parents to boost their child’s self confidence on IG live at 12 pm PST/3 pm EST!

We are so proud to announce that we are now an official LAUSD vendor! If you know a school in LA who would benefit from our empowering live music assembly, let them know! ⭐️

Performing in NJ for @confidentconcerts today! The other parts of my trip involved: getting some steps in to explore the town, hearing my daughters tears over the phone (😢) and eating on the side of a country road again. That’s the truth about music touring! A lot of snacking in a car 🎶

This really changed the game for me, so I’m standing on a bed and re-sharing it. Hope it helps you! ❤️❤️ If you feel guilty about something in your life, that’s ONE STEP AWAY from feeling grateful about that same thing! I feel mom guilt way more than I’d like to, and this reframe always helps!

Take a look at our new website for Confident Concerts! 11,000 empowered students and counting! 💪🎵 DM us to book your school assembly today

Confident Concerts Assemblies are half off from now until June 30! 🎉

Build confidence in your audience💪
Promote growth mindset 🧠
End the cycle of bullying 💗
with Confident Concerts 🎹

Assemblies available anywhere in the US

The Brave Ones tote bags just dropped—and they're ready to help you carry the heavy stuff (literally + figuratively)! 💪🎶 Wear your anthem loud and proud. DM me to grab yours! #BraveOnes #CarryWithConfidence

Such a fun time today bringing Music with a Message AKA @confidentconcerts to middle schoolers in Weddington, NC!! I loved chatting with students, signing a cast, and learning some of the middle schoolers favorite songs of mine: Fireproof and Brave Ones! These students were so engaged and one of the young men even said to me “your music has a great message.” My heart! My day was made knowing that my story and music helped them end this cycle of bullying 😍

Music engages, entertains, and empowers when it’s done right! At Music with a Message assemblies, we engage every student in the audience through instrument participation, dance, and music! Our assemblies are perfect to empower students right before end of year exams and give them a much deserved break during a stressful time! 🎉🎶🎹🎸 We teach students pre-K through 12th grade how to become upstanders instead of bystanders, how to become a Brave One, and how to stand up to bullying! 💪 DM us to get Music with a Message to empower your students ✨

It’s always a fun time when Music with a Message comes to your school! 🎵👯

Empowered arms and happy faces in Dublin, Ohio! Music with a Message got to perform for and with kiddos k-5th! We got instruments in their hands, smiles on their faces, and confident thoughts in their minds 💪🎹

Empower your students with a Music with a Message assembly! Where social emotional learning and ending the cycle of bullying combines with empowering music to be FUN, ENTERTAINING, and ENGAGING. 🎵💪🎉
Enter your school at www.CaleyRose.com/empowerment
Contest ends 2/28!! ⬅️⬅️

Let’s get smiles on their faces, confidence in their hearts, and instruments in their hands 💪🎵
Enter to win a Music With A Message assembly for your school.

Bring confidence to your audience with SEL music 🎹🎧

Win a Music with a Message assembly for your students! Empower your students through music, build their self-confidence and help END the cycle of bullying. 💪🎵
Parents, educators, and students are all eligible to enter anywhere in the US. Contest ends Feb 28!

Empower your students through SEL music and help them end the cycle of bullying! 💪🎵
Enter to win a Music With A Message assembly at your school: www.CaleyRose.com/empower

The students at Scottish Corners elementary became Brave Ones last week! 💪✨ They learned how to STAND UP for themselves and others, became a part of the show by playing instruments, and learned how to build their own self-confidence to help end the cycle of bullying! 💪🎵

Another glowing testimonial for Music with a Message’s high school assembly! “Caley Rose brought “Music with a Message” today to ACA’s Pepperdine group. Her music and program’s message spans having confidence in yourself, overcoming fear by telling it to get in the passenger seat, and sometimes, just going for it, even before you feel absolutely ready! Reach out to her if you need a fun and positive message for your school’s next assembly!
Caley also shared her voice business and educated about the opportunities and caveats of voice work. A few of the guys took on the challenge of reading scripts that she did for a video game.
Caley also sang a couple of her recent songs she’s been able to write, record and soon include on her upcoming album… all from crowdfunding. For those who contribute, we get the pleasure of knowing this fun, aspiring entrepreneur is creating music with an empowering message. A couple that have such catchy messages are …. HERE WE GO and You’re One of the BRAVE Ones.
*There may have been guys dancing and practicing some couples dance steps 🕺🏼 during the music today, also a couple of breakdance offs, but that’s totally exclusive footage! 😎” - Tara Richardson, ACA Summer Program at Pepperdine University @tararichmojo @pepperdine @acasummer

Win a Music With A Message assembly for your school! 🎶💪We are so thrilled to be giving away an empowering SEL assembly to one lucky winner. Help your students end the cycle of bullying and build their own self-confidence through a fun, interactive empowering music concert. Enter at: www.Caley Rose/empower

“I was blown away. The messages that she offered so authentically were beautiful. The idea that kids should be reaching out to be themselves and it’s okay to be themselves, capitalizing on a growth mindset and failing forward was beautiful. And I just adore the way that Caley put herself out there to students. And the way that she jammed at the end was amazing. The energy was beautiful.” Lynn Renter, Middle School Counselor, Summit Middle School

How happy do these kiddos look to play musical instruments?! 🥁 We love to see happy faces while keeping our audiences engaged throughout our empowering music assembly 🎉🎶

During my interview on Great Day Colorado, we talked about how power proposes have been scientifically proven to boost self-confidence in kids and adults alike! Through our Music With A Message assemblies, we teach power pose choreography set to empowering music, so students gain confidence-building skills that they can use throughout their lives!
Shout out to Ted Lasso for bringing power poses into popular culture! #powerpose #tedlasso

One of my favorite parts of our Music With A Message assemblies is after teaching the kids our song “Stand Up,” we engage in a schoolwide discussion about what it means to stand up for ourselves and others. The stories of overcoming bullying, bravery, and resilience the students share always bring me to tears! These students exemplify “Stand Uo!” 💪

One of my favorite parts of the Forbes article I was featured in this year was its mention of my concept of “Self Like.” Self love can feel like way too much pressure when we are essentially starting at zero confidence. Relieve some of that pressure and focus of finding things you appreciate about yourself. (Just in time for Thanksgiving, self gratitude!! Haha) but really, sitting and journaling about things you appreciate about yourself, internally, and externally, can help these features expand. Hope that helps, my brave ones! 💪💗

“Music reactivates areas of the brain associated with memory....music doesn’t just help us retrieve stored memories, it also helps us lay down new ones.”
- Harvard Medical School
When you empower your students through music, you give them skills that will last them a lifetime! 💪🧠

Thank you for the glowing testimonial, Harin! We agree!: “I’m a school social worker here at Miguelito elementary, and yesterday I got to see the Music with a Message assembly for the first time. I was really impressed. I think this is something we need to have at more schools more often. The more creative ways we can deliver the positive messages and the empowerment tools that they need… Just seeing how it [the music and assembly] was affecting the kids and the delivery Caley brings. It’s evident and the kids pick up on that. Using her own personal experiences of how she was bullied as a child, that’s a common theme that children do have to go through, but giving them the tools to know they’re strong, they’re resilient… I think the more we can empower them through her messages and the collective messages, the better off they’re going to be through their school experience. Music is so powerful, because it encompasses so much feeling and it’s really powerful when you combine that with the message she’s giving them. It’s really really powerful”

My favorite part of our Music with a Message assemblies: asking the students in our audience to share what makes them feel Fireproof. 💪
We teach students affirmations and power poses set to our empowering original music, and then talk about how Fireproof is actually a metaphor! They like to impress their English teachers with this one 🔥💪
What makes you feel FIREPROOF? 🔥🔥 Let us know ⬇️⬇️

How to reach the “hard to reach” middle and high schoolers? 🎤 In our Music with a Message assemblies, we teach leadership, growth mindset, and entrepreneurship to these age groups through our Billboard-charting music. We empower them to build who they want to be. I share what has worked for me to overcome being bullied and how I built my self-confidence without being “cringe.” It helps student to meet someone who has been there and made it through that darkness. Plus, our assembly’s modern music helps the message reach audiences of all ages in a fun, accessible way. 🎶💪

When I was speaking to students at Pepperdine, I shared this, the way to keep going, even when times feel tough: Align yourself with a mission greater than yourself. When you realize that the work you’re doing is helping someone, you have a duty greater than yourself to get out of bed and keep moving forward every day. ✨✨
Music with a Message shows combine empowering entrepreneurial advice like this for high school students like the @acasummer program here with empowering music. After these tangible tools, we had a fun dance party with students to our songs “Brave Ones” and “Here We Go!”

Fight like a Girl, GAME OVER, or Stop Chasing Boys! Empowering clothing for your little or yourself is the best way to promote confidence!

How studying singing helps @kariwahlgren find creative characters for animation, anime, and video game projects!
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Kari has been the voice in leading roles in Teen Titans, DC Superhero Girls, Final Fantasy XII, Phineas and Ferb, Wolverine & The X Men, Rick and Morty, Kung Fu Panda, and soooo many more incredible projects!
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For more tips on how to master voice over auditions and jobs, listen to the full "How to Get Into Voice Over" Podcast Episode, find the LINK in B10
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Here's a little glimpse into our Music with a Message assemblies. Teaching students to build their self-confidence through empowering original music like our song, "Fireproof," through which we teach power poses. Power poses have been scientifically proven to raise self-confidence!
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These moments warm my heart so much. To see students who normally wouldn't dance or sing out loud get involved, to hear them share their stories of resilience, it's truly incredible!

Here's a sneak listen of one of my new songs from the Brave Ones album, "Growing Up!"
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This song is about the many changes that life brings our way, which is especially relevant this week as I'm expecting baby #2! I cannot wait to share this song with you.
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Thank you SO MUCH to every incredible human who helped us raise over 13 thousand dollars to make this music!!! I'm still in SHOCK and eternally grateful. Working my way through sending t shirts, tanks, and posting thank you's, because there are such a beautiful many! I love you, Brave Ones!! You made this possible and showed me what is possible in this beautiful life!! To think, I almost wasn't a Brave One myself and almost didn't try to crowdfund to make an album. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
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Produced by my mentor and someone I've looked up to since I became a songwriter, Rob Seals, @thesongwritingschool. This is a dream come true.

Ready to perform Assemblies #19 and 20 of our 22 assembly month in California today and teach these kiddos what it means to be Fireproof!! 🔥💪

Music with a Message Shows benefit adults, kids, and teens! Good music reaches all ages, and all ages deserve confidence-building methods and empowering music 💪🎶

Thank you @big_fish_kc for making this video!!

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Empower Your Students through Music

Our SEL Music Assemblies & Classes Build Self-Confidence and Prevent Bullying

*Formerly known as Music with a Message

Confident Concerts Elementary School Reel

Confident Concerts Elementary School Reel

Confident Concerts- Middle and High School Highlights

Confident Concerts Guitar & Music Production Classes: Arc Highlight Reel- Dec 2025

Confident Concerts Testimonials

Build Confidence in your Students through Original Billboard-Charting Music

Our empowering music classes are now available in elementary and middle schools. Our teachers incorporate important SEL methods into every music class they teach. Available Classes: Guitar Music Production Ukelele Songwriting Singing Empowering Music and Movement

Testimonials

Over 13,000 Students Empowered Through Music by Focusing on Three Cornerstones:

Listen to our Empowering Music

Our Story

Why Did Music with a Message Change to Confident Concerts?

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Our SEL Music Assemblies & Classes
Build Self-Confidence and
Prevent Bullying

Our empowering music classes are now available in elementary and middle schools. Our teachers incorporate important SEL methods into every music class they teach.

Available Classes:
Guitar
Music Production
Ukelele
Songwriting
Singing
Empowering Music and Movement