Inspiring Music and Performing Arts
in Every Classroom

Bushfire Press / Music Room provides fully resourced programs for children aged 4–12, making it easy for teachers to bring music, movement, and drama to life. From award-winning MUSIC ROOM to WE’RE ORFF , DANCE ROOM, LISTENING ROOM, and DRAMA ROOM, our resources save time, engage students, and empower teachers—no specialist skills required.

Bushfire Press/Music Room is an Australian education resource company focusing on Music and the Performing Arts, particularly targeting children from ages 4 to 12.

A Little History

Bushfire Press began life in the 1980s in Melbourne, Australia.

We started our journey providing schools with original ‘junior’ MUSICALS, which have since been performed around the world and many of which are still being performed today.

As we grew, we added plays, mini musicals, recorder resources & courses, integrated arts units, instrumental arrangements, a dance program and singing and dancing resources to our list.

This naturally led to the development of the award-winning classroom music program, MUSIC ROOM, Australia’s only comprehensive music program fully resourcing the ACARA Music Curriculum standards.

MUSIC ROOM 7 was voted Best Primary Teaching Resource at the Australian Publishers Association Educational Publishing Awards in 2012, outclassing Science and Maths publications in the final. We are extremely proud of this achievement.

MUSIC ROOM remains one of the most popular music programs in the world and is taught in Australia, United Kingdom, Canada, United States, New Zealand, South Africa and many International schools in Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

MUSIC ROOM is not the end of the journey.

We have added an Orff Schulwerk program, WE’RE ORFF, which is proving very popular all over the world.

WE’RE ORFF is unique in that it also teaches teachers to implement the Orff Approach to teaching music and so provides a great vehicle for professional development for music teachers.

We also publish a 4-level listening and appreciation program, LISTENING ROOM which helps teachers take their classes on a journey through the space and time of western music (Classical through to 20th Century).

Movement and dance are not forgotten with our  DANCE ROOM series as well as a number of other Orff style and social and community dance resources.

The DRAMA ROOM program now adds to our existing catalogue of drama resources, plays and musicals.

We have everything you need for fully-resourced music & performing Arts program across the primary years in both PRINT and DIGITAL formats.

All the lessons are planned for you. Many are fully prepared for you with powerpoint-style slideshows, and some (the Music Room Alive series) are even presented to your class for you.

You don’t need to be a music or performing arts specialist to be able to deliver our resources to your class. All our resources are engaging for the student and time-saving for the classroom teacher or music specialist.