Jack Pearson
Provide an interactive musical experience that bridges music and stories to children of all ages. Enhance musical enjoyment through age-appropriate song and dance. Increase access to educational and family-friendly music. Encourage children to include more music in their daily lives. Reinforce the idea that libraries are places to experience cultural or arts programming
Seven of the eight adult respondents strongly agreed that it enriched the arts community. Comments from the adults included, “[It was] very engaging for the primary students. They were excited about music and history when it was done,” “[My favorite part was] adult involvement and having the historical songs I learned as a kid taught to this generation,” and “perfect curriculum alignment, nice pace to keep students’ attention, promoted use of imagination, rich American heritage shared.” Of the children attending the program, 152 wanted to learn more about American history, 155 would be willing to go to a similar program in the future, and 150 would be willing to go to another library sponsored program. Many students stated they were interested to learn more about history and how to play musical instruments after seeing the program. They were also interested in learning to play some of the older instruments like the spoons and jaw harp.
SELCO (Southeastern Libraries Cooperating)