Special shows & Interactive Activities for incoming students. Fun sing alongs, learn to play the spoons, and some fun country & square dancing. Everyone gets involved, and makes new friends.
Music & songs of reflection & endurance for this sacred anniversary.
Colonial music & songs on period instruments from the Constitutional era, and Freedom Songs from the Civil Rights Movement.
A fun array of shows & activities uniquely appropriate for students, parents, families & kids. Interactive singing, instruments & dancing.
A musical tribute to our veterans. Popular songs of veterans from WWI, WWII. Korea, Vietnam, to present day. Stirring, humorous & historical.
Songs of Thanksgiving, family, & friends.
Songs & stories of Christmas, Hanukah, Kwanzaa, & Diwali. Includes holiday music from Latin America, Africa, and Europe.
A moving celebration of the songs that provided encouragement to a movement and changed a nation. A great program for Martin Luther King Week (January), Black History Month (February), or any time of year.
Traditional & popular Irish songs & raucous fiddle tunes. Celebrates the Irish in us all.
A fun, upbeat, energetic, and positive show celebrating nature, animals, the earth, and focusing on environmental issues.
Mark will organize all the acts, open the show, introduce the acts, provide & run sound & lights, stage manage, and tie the whole evening into a professional format.
Great sing alongs that everybody knows, and loves to sing.
Music, songs, and instruments from around the world.
An intimate performance of songs & stories on guitar, banjo, piano, fiddle, hammered dulcimer, and mountain dulcimer. Poignant, entertaining, and fun
An instrumental program of music for the-centuries old Persian Santur, known in America as the Hammered Dulcimer.
Unique background and dinner music everyone will enjoy. Shows geared to your special event.
A high energy, entertaining, educational, and fun introduction to traditional American “roots” music. Instruments include guitar, banjo, fiddle, hammered dulcimer, and spoons. The kids are involved in some fun way on every song.
Songs & stories of Christmas, Hanukah, Kwanzaa, Diwali, Three Kings Day, Yule, and more.
A fun, upbeat show that celebrates nature, with songs about the earth, animals, and environmental issues.
A fun literacy program introducing students to an assortment of books, along with interactive songs on a variety of instruments related to those books, authors, and themes.
"Books That Sing" is a fun literacy program introducing students to an assortment of books, along with interactive songs on a variety of instruments related to those books, authors, and themes.
A variety of fun programs & activities for the whole school (see “Activites” below).
The entire family will join in some fun sing-alongs, learn how to play the spoons, then get up and dance together as a family to great fiddle tunes.
Mark briefly demonstrates each instrument, and then each student gets a chance to try them all.
Each student builds a "milk carton guitar", that when finished during one class period, they will have an instrument that they can take home & play.
Mark will teach everyone how to hold & play the spoons. Anyone can do it! Mark provides spoons for everyone.
Fun American dances for all ages. These dances like the "Virginia Reel", “Patty Cake Polka", and “Cotton Eyed Joe” are fun & easy to learn.
Kids learn about rhyme schemes, meter, and song construction. Then they write a “blues” song, and perform it by the end of one class.
A fun & interactive program for families with young kids. Great sing alongs on a variety of instruments, learn to play the spoons, traditional American dance, and everyone can try out all the instruments.
Great interactive programs for large groups, and hands on workshops for smaller ones including trying all the instruments, country dancing, and instrument building.
A fun, upbeat show that celebrates nature, with songs about the earth, animals, and environmental issues.
Songs from WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, to present day. A great program for Memorial Day, Independence Day, Veteran's Day, Flag Day.
Classic popular songs of the ages everyone knows and loves to sing.
Songs & stories of growing up, growing older, getting married, and raising a family in the Catskill Mountains. Fun for all ages.
Music, songs & instruments of the Constitutional era, along with songs of the Civil Rights Movement.
Colonial & Victorian popular songs & music.
Fun American dances for all ages. The dances like the "Virginia Reel", “Patty Cake Polka", and “Cotton Eyed Joe” are fun & easy to learn for the whole family.
Popular Irish favorites and raucous fiddle tunes.
A celebration of the songs that supported a movement and changed a nation.
Songs of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and Diwali. Includes Black gospel songs, holiday music from Latin America, Africa, and Europe.
Interactive programs designed to get the whole family involved, and having fun together.
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