SONGBIRDS HAS A FACEBOOK FORUM!

After an amazing week of workshops with the High Schoolers, Elementary Schoolers, Homeschoolers and community members of Valemount, SONGBIRDS now has a Facebook group where teachers, students and others can keep in touch, ask and answer questions related to music. Check it out!

>>LINK TO FACEBOOK FORUM<<

Thanks to the community for being such gracious and generous hosts as well as keen and exciting music-makers! SONGBIRDS will definitely be back!

SONGBIRDS FLIES BACK TO BC, CANADA!

Songbirds is flying north once more on February 29th for a week of workshops in Valemount, BC. Thanks to Ann and VSS PAC liason, Jan, for helping this happen!

TESTIMONIAL

One of the Songbirds-vocal-workshop-attendees from the Dunster workshops in the fall, Ann McKirdy-Carson, had some nice things to say about her Songbirds experience and recommended us to her community in Valemount. Thank you for your kind words, Ann. Songbirds is excited to come visit you again

“Mat keeps things simple and builds on steps to teach clawhammer banjo. His feedback is accurate and helpful. He also knows a lot about where science and music meet. He brings complex information into layman’s language.

Joanna kept enough structure, in our class, to give us a lot of hands-on information. She also responded to all our questions. One on one, she helped me to get over two (shy) hurdles that were holding me back.

If kids were taught to sing by her, more people would be singing.”

- Ann McKirdy-Carson, Workshop Participant

SONGBIRDS IN TORONTO CLASSROOMS FOR “TOKENS FOR CHANGE”

TOKENS FOR CHANGE was an event held last Friday in the subways of Toronto and in Dundas Square to raise funds and awareness for Youth Without Shelter. Project Humanity brought style and life to the day’s proceedings by going into Toronto schools in the month leading up to the event and working with students to create art pieces to engage the community in the event.

SONGBIRDS was invited to come into select classes and work with the students to help polish their pieces for performance. The kids had written songs, and in some cases come up with complex arrangements for them already. SONGBIRDS worked with them to help them prepare for the performance setting, with the background noise and street sounds there would be.

On the day, the kids did a wonderful job, and the event raised $67,500 for Youth Without Shelter.

SONGBIRDS WORKSHOPS IN DUNSTER, BC

JOANNA CHAPMAN-SMITH, KATHERYN PETERSEN & MAT MARTIN are recently returned from a tour of Alberta and British Columbia during which Songbirds workshops were given in Vancouver, Prince George and Dunster, BC. During the visit talks were held about including some new teachers on the roster – keep an eye on this news feed.

SONGBIRDS WORKSHOPS IN DUNSTER, BC

Read the teachers’ tour comments at Joanna’s blog and Katheryn’s website, and in Mat’s articles for Spiral Earth.

WELCOME

Welcome to the new, independent site for the Songbirds Travelling Music School, a project making it possible for musicians on tour to share their skills and experience with local communities. Have a look through our list of teachers and workshops and contact us with any questions or ideas.