Pasadena Public Library
We had fun this morning with Angie Donkin, dancing with scarves, playing shaker eggs, singing with finger puppets and a little purple puppet named Monster! Dance and Play: Old King Cole: Don Alfredo: If you’d like to find more of Angie’s music for little ones, please check out her YouTube […]
What happens when you bring together 35 school age kids, a group of talented musicians, 27 guitars (electric and acoustic) and 5 keyboards? You get SCHOOL OF ROCK @ PPL!! For the second year in a row Pasadena Public library gave a group of kids (ages 10-16) a rock and […]
Twenty budding young guitarists joined us for Pasadena Public Library’s first ever SCHOOL OF ROCK! Taking after the movie of the same name, we wanted to give a group of kids (ages 10-15) a rock and roll experience they’d never forget. Professional jazz/rock/blues guitarist Kimberly (KC) Allison from Starliner Music […]
This summer, our families from Infant and Toddler storytimes at Central Library got a special show performed by Colombian-American singer-songwriter Nathalia! She performed her original bilingual songs with lots of fun props, activity prompts, dances and movements to keep babies and toddlers and their parents highly engaged and having fun. […]
This past summer and in previous summers, music education specialist Dayita Datta presented programs that introduced children in preschool or elementary school to the fundamentals of music. She engaged the children in rhythm and movement activities; taught the children about pentatonic scales; had the children playing melodies on a metallophone; […]
Last month we had a special Kids’ Writing Workshop all about writing songs, with guest Tim Griffin of GriffinEd! Tim was a classroom teacher for many years and he created the nonprofit GriffinEd and wrote all of the songs featured there, to give teachers a gift of music to help […]
On May 26th we had a delightful program presented by Orange County Opera and sponsored by the Pasadena Opera Guild, giving kids a hilarious introduction to opera by performing a version of Donizetti’s Elixir of Love in English. It was, to my knowledge, our first-ever opera program at Pasadena Public […]
Last Tuesday, we had a fun performance for all our Infant Toddler Storytime families and all who wanted to come, put on by The Nick and Jen Show! They performed their original songs and got the toddlers dancing while parents held babies on their laps and clapped or swayed along […]
Earlier this year, Pasadena Unified School District surveyed parents about what their kids need and found a strong need for more music learning opportunities. Well, Pasadena Public Library has traditionally offered all kinds of free musical performances especially during the summertime. But today we really stepped up our music literacy […]
On June 6th, we had a delightful music performance by Angie Donkin for infants, toddlers and their families. She played guitar and ukulele and sang. She used puppets, props, even a nonfiction book, to support her songs. Literally every moment of the show is music. Angie sings the entire time, […]