Tri-Cities Opera-Go-Round is a touring educational program that brings live musical performances to schools throughout New York. They will be performing The Three Little Pigs by John Davies for our younger students and The Telephone by Gian-Carlo Menotti for the older students. Each opera runs about 50 minutes and includes creative sets and costumes
Josh Greenberg and his jazz ensemble (saxaphone, keyboard, drums, bass and vocal) introduces our students to elements of jazz through unique and original arrangements of simple children's nursery rhymes. Josh highlights jazz fundamentals such as call and response, blues, and rhythm as well as the many and varied cultural roots of the jazz medium.
Red Grammer and songwriting partner and wife, Kathy, have produced a series of award-winning recordings for children and their families. Red has made numerous appearances on television and radio and has starred in his own Kaleidoscope Concert for the Disney Channel. Red Grammer's music not only teaches us about community awareness, problem solving, and cultural uniqueness, it is fun, uplifting and it allows us to be who we are. It inspires movement, art, stories and quiet times. He will be performing a 1 hour concert for our students in May.
Kim and Reggie Harris are nationally know singers, songwriters, and teaching artists. They are frequent performers and teacher workshop leaders at the Kennedy Center for the performing Arts in Washington, DC. Music and the Underground Railroad is a multimedia exploration of slavery and the quest for freedom, presented in story, song and narratives. Spirituals that rose from the ordeal of slavery were used as codes for escaping slaves. They are considered to be one of America's greatest contributions to the world of music.
This festival will be our First Annual Renee Beebe Memorial Arts-in-Education event. On Friday, February 8, we will congregate in the gym dressed in masks and beads that students have made in art class. Each unit will have decorated a float to be featured in the parade led by Captain Squeeze and the Zydeco Moshers. We'll end the parade in the cafeteria where awards will be given for the floats and the party will commence! The party which features an hour long concert by Captain Squeeze and the Zydeco Moshers, will be followed by refreshments served in each classroom.
Chris Holder is a singer/songwriter/storyteller/actor who has been performing concerts across the country for all ages in all places - at colleges, festivals, libraries, prisons, retirement centers and schools. As an arts in education artist in the schools for over twenty years, Chris has been in the vanguard of arts advocacy and practice. A former panelist for the New York State Council on the Arts in Arts in Education, Chris has presented thousands of performances, concerts and workshops in schools across the country. His theme-centered, curriculum-based artist residencies in schools have become the model of arts integrated projects for his many colleagues in the field. During October 2003, Chris was in residency at Wildwood School, assisting students with their study of the Erie Canal. Together, Chris and students wrote an performed an original piece about the Erie Canal.