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Jeff Davis
Winner of the Parent’s Choice Award
Jeff Davis is one of the nation’s foremost performers, interpreters
and collectors of traditional American folk music.
American Sampler
Travel with Jeff Davis into the history of rural America. With humor,
warmth, and scholarship, Jeff invites your students to relive our
nation’s heritage through songs of Revolutionary War heroes,
Appalachian clogging songs, sailors’ work songs, African-American
banjo tunes, Irish fiddle tunes, cowboy ditties, and more! Jeff
accompanies himself on myriad instruments, ranging from the nose
flute to a one-of-a-kind fretless banjo. Students join in on the
fun with found instruments, such as bones and spoons.
The Oregon Trail
In 1846, Bostonian and historian Francis Parkman, then twenty-three
years old and just graduated from Harvard, traversed the continent,
returned, and then wrote his famous first book The Oregon Trail.
Listen to the songs of the people Parkman met on his trip: railroaders,
immigrants on the Erie Canal, sailors on the Great Lakes, rafters
on the Ohio River, African-American roustabouts steamboating on
the Mississippi, pole-boaters struggling upstream on the Missouri,
Sioux hunters, and pioneers plodding overland on foot, horseback
and wagons. All headed West!
Grade Levels: K-12
Performance Time: 45 minutes
Audience Limit: 225
Single: $425 Double: $680* Triple: $890* Quad: $1,060*
Travel Fee: $50 a day
*Add $25 for each additional location.
Add a Student Workshop
Jeff Davis’ workshops include hands-on activities (a musical spoons lesson, the singing of a sea-shanty while raising a "sail"), and highlight map skills and the idea of the folk process and oral tradition. A few new instruments are introduced, more singing, and much more time is devoted to questions and answers. Oregon Trail workshops focus on westward movement; American Sampler workshops can focus on the most recent American history studies of any particular class such as, early colonial days, the Civil War or Massachusetts history.
Grade Levels: K-12
Participants: 30 students
Price: $125 per workshop
Residency
American Folk Traditions
Jeff Davis’ residencies cover a wide variety of topics including
folk instruments, music, tales, and sea chanteys. Residencies can
be tailor-made to focus on the Oregon Trail or American Sampler
assembly programs.
Grade Levels: K-12
Contact office for pricing information.
Massachusetts Curriculum Links
Music
English Language Arts
History and Social Science
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Manguito
Experience the joyous music of Latin America such as the rumba, bomba, plena, and Dominican merengue. Five internationally known Latin American musicians take students on an interactive musical tour of the Caribbean as they play the rhythms of Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic on a variety of musical instruments. Students participate throughout the presentation via sing-alongs, clapping rhythms, playing instruments and dancing. In addition, this program provides students with an appreciation of the unique fusion of Spanish, African, and Native American cultures in Latino culture.
Grade Levels: K-12
Performance Time: 45 minutes
Audience Limit: 325
Single: $795 Double: $1,270* Triple: $1,695* Quad: $1,975*
Travel Fee: based on mileage
* One location only
Add a Master Class
Manguito’s workshops further introduce young musicians to the world of Afro-Latin music. Music students will learn rhythms from a variety of Latin styles of music, including the rumba, bomba, plena, and merengue.
Grade Levels: 8-12
Participants: 30 students
Price: $125 per master class (includes 1 artist)
Residency
Mambo Time
Instructors from Manguito introduce students to the rich Afro-Latin musical tradition. Students will learn rhythms from a variety of Latin styles of music, including the rumba, bomba, plena, and merengue. The culminating event is a performance of the students and the artists. For Bands and Orchestras: After an introduction to the rich Afro Latin musical tradition, students work with a Latin rhythm section and present a joint performance of Mambo and Latin jazz arrangements.
Contact the office for pricing information.
Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks
Foreign Languages
History and Social Science
Multicultural Studies
Music
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Promised Land
The Immigrant Experience
Promised Land celebrates diversity in America, and validates the
uniqueness of each individual by weaving a rich tapestry of personal
stories and songs from many cultures represented in today’s
world. Trace the story of immigrants who left the "Old World"
to search for a better life in America, the "Land of Opportunity."
Sing along and listen to the odysseys of people who found themselves
on a new continent, faced with overwhelming challenges and opportunities.
Hear the sounds of many instruments, including the mandocello, bones,
dumbek, guitar, banjo, jaw harp, tambourine, string bass, recorder, penny whistle,
fiddle, Native American flute and spoons. Discover your own stories as you participate in this musical voyage.
Grade Levels: K-12
Performance Time: 45-60 minutes
Audience Limit: 200
Single: $605 Double: $970 Triple: $1,270 Quad: $1,512
Travel Fee: based on mileage
Massachusetts Curriculum Links
Music
History and Social Science
Multicultural Studies
Foreign Languages
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HERE TO SEE A VIDEO OF PROMISED LAND IN ACTION!
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Odaiko New England
Taiko Japanese Drumming
Odaiko New England demonstrates the ancient Japanese art form of
taiko Japanese drumming and its importance in Japanese culture. This program
highlights kumi daiko (ensemble taiko drumming), and combines traditional
taiko rhythms with dynamic movement and rhythms from other musical
traditions. Students explore kata form (drumming technique) and
the concept of kiai (vocalizing energy), and join the performers
on stage to play the taiko drums.
Grade Levels: K-12
Performance Time: 50 minutes
Audience up to 300: Single: $695, Double $1,110*
Audience of 301-450: Single: $895 Double $1,432*
Travel Fee: based on mileage
*Add $75 for 2 locations
Add a Student Workshop
In this workshop, Odaiko New England drummers continue to introduce
their kata and drumming technique to students. Students learn
taiko songs by singing and drumming rhythms. Drummers introduce
students to the concept of kiai (vocalizing energy) while
drumming. At the end of the workshop, students learn how to drum
a simple song.
Grade Levels: K-12
Participants: 30 students
Price: $250 per workshop (includes two artists)
Massachusetts Curriculum Links
Music
Health/Phys Ed
History and Social Science
Foreign Languages
Dance
Asian Pacific Studies
Multicultural Studies
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CelloTales Limited Availability
The Melding of Music, Myth & Memories
CelloTales is the unique and special collaboration of two art forms:
music and storytelling. Award-winning Master Story Performer Leeny Del Seamonds and virtuoso cellist Gideon Freudmann invite students
on a magical, musical journey around the world. The wonder of timeless
stories is melded with boundless music, transporting listeners into
the soul of the story and song.
Grade Levels: K-12
Performance Time: 45 minutes
Audience Limit: 250
Double: $1,320* Triple: $1,732*
Travel Fee: $50 a day
*Add $75 for 2 locations
Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks
Music
Foreign Languages
History and Social Science
English Language Arts
Theater
Multicultural Studies
Science and Technology
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Cantabrigia Brass Quintet
Back to Brassics
No instruments are more suggestive of power and triumph than those
in the brass family. This superb quintet, now with Young Audiences
of Massachusetts for over thirty years, explores a rich brass repertoire
that spans four centuries. With diverse expertise --including experience
in Broadway shows, symphonies, opera, ballet, and jazz -- these
five musicians introduce students to the basics of music and this
colorful instrument family including a performance on garden hoses!
Grade Levels: K-5
Sounding Brass
Sounding Brass is for older students or for those who have seen
the "Brassics" program. This program includes performances
on early brass instruments demonstrating their historic uses and technological development culminating in a performance on five garden hoses. The program also includes examples of early and contemporary jazz,
and a segment highly appropriate to teens on how music expresses the many aspects of love: joy, anger, bewilderment and grief, featuring selections from Bernstein’s West Side Story.
Grade Levels: 4-12
Performance Time: 45 minutes
Audience Limit: 250
Single: $745 Double: $1,120 Triple: $1,370 Quad: $1,630
Travel Fee: based on mileage
Add a Master Class
Student brass players work with a member of the quintet on technique, tuning, style, ensemble, balance and repertoire.
Grade Levels: 6-12
Participants: 25 students
Price: $125 per master class (includes 1 artist)
*Ask about subsidies in the Greater Boston and Cape Cod areas!
Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks
Music
History and Social Science
Science and Technology
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Sumaj Chasquis
Traditional Bolivian Music: Indians Discovered America
" A tribute of love and respect to our ancestors and children"
Sumaj Chasquis, meaning "good messengers," brings together
Bolivian Indian
and Mestizo musicians to share the enchanting culture and music
of the
Bolivian Andean Highlands, taking the audience on a chronological
tour from
the pre-Inca time to the post Spanish conquest era. The message
of this
hauntingly beautiful music is conveyed in three languages (Aymara,
Quechua
and Spanish) and on native Bolivian instruments. Students participate
with
the musicians throughout the program - discovering the traditions,
legends,
and dances of Bolivia - and learn how music has remained a cultural
and
spiritual center in the soul of the Aymara and Quechua peoples,
even against
the destructive powers of time and conquest.
Grade Levels: K-12
Performance Time: 45 minutes
Audience Limit: 325
Single: $950 Double: $1,520* Triple: $1,995*
*Add $25 for 2 locations
CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO SUMAJ CHASQUIS!
Massachusetts Curriculum Links
Music
History and Social Sciences
Foreign Languages
Multicultural Studies
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Cubanana LIMITED AVAILABILITY!
Melodías y Danzas de Cuba
When Cubanana presents world famous Cuban music and dance, everyone loves to sing, dance, clap rhythms, practice Spanish, and play instruments! Students go on a virtual trip to Cuba, the Island of Music, through stories and a video backdrop while exploring popular genres and their roots - such as Cuban son (also known as salsa), chachachá, guajira, and conga. Cubanana promotes multicultural understanding and encourages students to follow their dreams. In Spanish or English.
Grade Levels:K-12
Performance Time: 45 minutes
Audience Limit: 250
Single: $735* Double: $1,180** Triple: $1,545** Quad: $1,838**
Travel Fee: based on mileage
* Restrictions may apply
**Add $90 for two locations.
Add a Student Workshop
Students practice a variety of songs, rhythms, instruments, dances, and lyrics, while gaining historical, linguistic, and cultural perspectives. (Sample genres include son, changüí, mambo, chachachá, montuno, nueva canción, bolero, afro, rumba, conga, guajira, guaracha.) Program can be conducted in Spanish for students who are already fluent. English-based workshops include ample vocabulary and exposure to Spanish. Content is adjusted according to grades and skill level.
Grade Levels: K-12.
Participants: 25
Price: $250 per workshop (includes 2 artists)
Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks
Music
History and Social Sciences
Foreign Languages
Multicultural Studies
Dance
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