2nd and 4th Fridays February - May 2020
Free
Music and Motion Fridays at Easthampton Family Center (EFC) will be music classes and performances geared towards young children ages birth – pre-kindergarten. For the past three years EFC has been providing music classes about two times a year with Maggie Shar of Little Roots. This is a very popular program! And often it brings new families to our playgroup. This year we wanted to expand our program by inviting more performers and teachers to play for the group each bringing their own special way of introducing the very young to music. For the spring of 2020 we will be welcoming Maggie back and introducing Hootenanny, Gokh-bi System, Andy Goulet and Friends, and Desi Lowitt.
We welcome children ages 0-5 and their caregivers from Easthampton and surrounding communities to participate in our music classes.
Maggie Shar is an award winning musician and educator. She is trained in the Nurtured Heart Approach and has over 15 years of experience teaching children in interactive, engaging ways. Maggie is a faculty member at The Community Music School of Springfield. Katryna Nields is a nationally renowned touring and recording musicians from the legendary band The Nields. She has participated in Music Together training and has run family music choirs and singing groups for high school students. Childhood friends from the Dakar, Senegal Gokh-Bi System (pronounced Go Bee) reunite rap with its ancient West African ancestors in a style dubbed "ancient meets urban. Formed in 1993 by Mamadou Ndiaye, Diasse Pouye, and Pape Bathie Pouye.