After a Junk Jam Band performance, musicians Josh Robinson and Zach Green give students a hands-on experience with recyclables and found objects made into instruments. Students make music by engaging in a “junk jam” with the artists.
After a performance, Caryn Lin works with smaller groups of students to demonstrate looping, sound effects, and other techniques she shares throughout her assembly program to give students a more in-depth, hands-on experience. Caryn can work with string students or band students, or conduct a general music workshop. Note: Workshops must be in the same […]
Students experience making music with found objects and create their own found-object instrument they can keep. Long-term residencies (10 days or more) also include a student performance on the instruments they make or the creation of larger, communal “junk jam stations” that can stay behind at the school. 2 class limit (up to 90 minutes […]
Are you ready to jam? Environmental sustainability and social responsibility take center stage in this high-energy educational program featuring found objects and homemade instruments. Everyone gets involved, as students create and layer sounds, using looping technology to create songs. Learning that junk can be used in so many ways has never been such fun!
Blues preservationist and one-man-band Curtis Blues brings the acoustic music of the Mississippi Delta straight into your school! Playing drums, harmonica, vintage guitars (including a one-stringed diddley bow), cymbals, and home-made instruments, this blues Artist of the Year demonstrates the history of this classic American music and the connections it has to music students listen […]
This energetic and engaging exploration of percussion and poetry by Poetry Meets Percussion introduces students to how rhythms and spoken word can awaken their inner artists. Through poetry and percussive sound, students are awakened to both verbal and non-verbal ways to express themselves while learning to develop their own unique voices—one word, one beat at […]
Blending zany humor, songs, dance, and solid science, this amazingly charismatic performer champions the importance of ecological responsibility. RecycleMania! explores the use and abuse of landfills, the harvesting of natural resources for making recyclable products, nature’s efficient systems for reuse, and a practical approach to recycling on a daily basis.
In Geology Rocks, children sing and dance about the Big Bang, plate tectonics, the rock cycle, and erosion—Billy B. style! Billy teaches new songs so they can sing with and, in some cases, dance with Billy B. while he performs his original songs, dances, and poems about geology. Billy B. uses a multi-layered backdrop to give visual […]
Billy B. examines “urban ecology” in this funny musical introduction to the interaction of plants, animals, humans, and the environment in metropolitan areas. Nature in the City examines the neighborhood ecosystem through song and dance as Billy encourages his audiences to become stewards of the planet.
Through song and guided activities, Billy B. demonstrates how pre-Columbian Native Americans used their ingenuity to build wigwams out of plants, make tools from flint, and trap wildlife for food. There is plenty of audience participation as students come to understand that Native Americans were the first recyclers!
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