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JAZZ4KIDS will perform at your elementary schools to teach students about this truly American art form. Concerts can be scheduled during school time and presented during a school wide assembly. We can also schedule in the evenings so that you can sell tickets and use this as a fundraiser.
The concert features jazz renditions of songs kids are familiar with like themes from Sesame Street, Flintstones and Pink Panther along with classics that kids will recognize like The Entertainer, Moondance and Girl From Ipanema.
This is an educational program that teaches kids about jazz, singing scat and the use of instruments. To help make this and even more memorable experience and hopefully to get more kids interested in jazz and music in general the concert involves the children with audience participation.
JAZZ4KIDS includes:
Sharon Porter
Mrs. Porter started piano lessons at 5 years of age. She started teaching at 17 years and has been teaching piano and voice for over 50 years. Also, she sang with the Arizona Mormom Choir for 10 years and with The Sonoran Desert Chorale for 12 years. She accompanied McClintock High School musicals for 16 years under the direction of Mr. Warren Dennis
Michael David Cross
Mike have been playing music for over 21 years and have been participated in several bands as a bass player in most of them. He is also a writer and composer. Some of the bands he played in the Arizona were: “ED” with two CD’s released, “Sympathy for Vampires” with a new CD soon to be released, the multi-cultural-music-power-trio called “Culture Shock”, the piano player John Southworth and with the charming singer Jenni Hall.
Lucas Nieri
Lucas has been playing drums since he was 11 and became professional drummer in Brazil and percussionist at age of 16. He played and recorded with several artists and bands in Brazil. Salix, Outrageous Fortune, The Bartenders were some of them. He produced a CD with the singer Laurelann Porter. In Arizona he had played in some Jazz groups and musicians in the valley and recorded a CD with the californian singer Dianna Phoenix, also have been participated in some bands like “Sympathy for Vampires” , “Culture Shock” and with the piano player John Southworth.