Pete Seeger, Evelyn Glennie, Bjork, Rod Morgenstein, also The Smothers Brothers, Phil Sudo, the JellyFish, Ralph Carney, Dennis Chambers, Shari Lewis, the Pixies, that Celloist in the Pittsburgh Symphony, Fred Rogers, Doug Cramer, Suzanne Vega, Autoharp players and of course ACDC.
What happens when a classically trained musician spends years playing in alternative bands while teaching music and movement classes? She develops a new show and puts out a children's CD!
Offering both traditional and Suzuki private lessons in flute, drums, harp, percussion, fife and recorder. Accepting students as young as three years old. More Details About My Suzuki Flute Studio
MY MUSIC STUDIO IN OLD TOWN, FREDERICKSBURG.
Hmm, what else? Earned a Masters from the Eastman School of Music and have been teaching for over 15 years. I have studied with members of the Cleveland and Rochester Orchestras and drumset with Rod Morgenstein of the Dixie Dregs and Winger. References and resume available.
Possible Future Contest
Can you find and name all the instruments in the studio picture above?
Who is on the poster on the back wall (no it's not me)?
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I also teach music and movement classes as a traveling consultant to Schools and Day Care Centers in the area. To request a free demo class, or for more information go to www.dinobone.com/html/studio.html
A LITTLE FUZZY BUT YOU GET THE IDEA
About the CD (official blurb)
Recording Artist Kim Milai releases a CD for young children, titled Dinobone, Dinobone, Have You Heard?. Kim’s arrangements of children’s folk songs are hip, clever and kid–tested, maybe best described as "Bjork meets Raffi." Dinobone, Dinobone, Have You Heard? proves that folk music can be modernized for kids without taking away from its traditional value.
Kim produced it as if it were an adult pop recording. She says, "I wanted the music to have a fun, modern and alternative edge. The songs are sweet but not syrupy." The title of the CD comes from the song "Dinobone, Dinobone," which is a reworking of the traditional "Ham–bone, Ham–bone" with a dinosaur twist.
The CD includes active songs and quiet songs from different cultures…songs that reflect a variety of moods for a wide range of listeners. Her primary goal is that kids under eight have a blast singing, listening and moving to the music. Songs like "Dinobone, Dinobone" and "All Around the Kitchen" exemplify her approach.
Concurrent with the CD’s release, Kim is taking her show on the road. And she’s developed a stage act to grab kids’ attention. Instead of strumming a guitar, she bounces around on stage playing electronic mallet percussion, while singing and mugging with her puppet, Dinobone.
About Kim Milai
Kim Milai has always led a double life — an elementary music teacher by day and a rock drummer by night. As part of the New York City music scene, Kim played drums with various alternative, pop and punk bands, sharing the stage with the B52’s, Cyndi Lauper, Marianne Faithful, Live, Matthew Sweet, and Living Colour. During the day she taught general music in New York City elementary schools. Over the years she developed her own unique teaching style, using puppets, movement and a multicultural blend of songs to keep the kids involved and enthused.
Her desire to share her love of music —and music making— brought her to California as the curriculum manager for Piano Discovery, an innovative software program that helps users learn to play the piano through their computer. She poured herself into a kids version of Piano Discovery, and it went on to earn five-star reviews and awards such as the National Parental Seal of Approval, ComputED’s Best Children's Educational Software, and Newsweek's Editor's Choice.
Kim missed making music with kids and she returned to teaching. At the same time she began work on her CD, basically doing it all: producing, arranging, engineering, playing and singing. The result, for the benefit of kids everywhere, is Dinobone, Dinobone, Have You Heard?.
HI KIM, great to hear from you! Yes the twins LOVED DinoBone. Listening over and over.(:
I hope everyone will check out the opening tracks of my new BlueGrunge. com CD with a GREAT Blues Singer, Lex Grey, who travels down to DC and Virginia frequently (madams organ pub); Your old bandmate Maria Baugh is on some backups throughout the disk. Thanks very much and Great Work on the World Folksongs. Jon & BlueGrunge people:::
Kim, Thanks for the Add! The Tracks sound fantastic, truely pro Raffi meets Bjork sounding! If you hear any info on M. Baugh please let me know. ps I didn't know they had electronic xylophones!
