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Music Makes Me Happy
![]() Music Makes Me Happy concert features music in a variety of styles including jazz, folk, the blues, pop, and world beat folk songs. This concert is perfect for those who like to sing and dance along with the live band of 6 multi-talented musicians. Keep the Beat! ![]() Keep the Beat is multi-lingual world music concert featuring folk songs from around the globe with pulsating energy and interactivity. The emphasis of the concert is how people all over the world are connected by music, history, and daily interaction. Robbi K & Friends chant with you in Yoruba, hum Zulu folk songs like Mbube, dance to the Latin clavé rhythm, and sing in reggae style celebrating l’chaim; and the many things we have in common with eachother. Robbi shares stories about her travels as a musician, and through call & response you'll find yourself singing in 5 different languages. Keep the Beat is a wonderful concert for festivals, schools, and main stage family programs. Children exposed to these songs will not only be singing them for many years to come but hopefully will be inspired to become loving and open-minded participants in the global community. Visions of Jazz ![]() Visions of Jazz...catches eyes and ears. Visions of Jazz...catches hearts and minds. Visions of Jazz...catches bodies and spirits. Visions of Jazz...conjures a vivid musical history of America's own art form. Trace the history of American Jazz trhough music and dance! Born in slavery...nurtured in field hollers, spirituals and call-and-response.... carried to freedom and brought to fruition as bebop, swing and cool in clubs, tenements and up North. That's the all-American journey of jazz. A new way of thinking about music, as revolutionary in its medium as Picasso was in his. Traditional blues, spiced with Caribbean and Latin influences, spread from the fertile crescent of New Orleans, evolving into a new musical discipline whose loose rules love improvisation and experimentation.
In New York, Chicago and the nation's other cities, jazz nightclubs brought together African American musicians and white fans, opening the way for racial integration later in the 20th century. Today, in Kansas City and Memphis, Los Angeles and Philadelphia.... wherever music lovers gather...the revolution that is jazz echoes and grows. DJ's hip-hop artists and rappers sample hooks from the greats.... and a new generation of fans America's own art form is born. |




