Singing Through History!
Programs for Schools, Libraries and Museums

Songs to Grow On
(Pre-School-Grade 3)
Simple and silly songs with lots of hand movement coordination for small children with big imaginations.

Just for Fun Sing-along Songs
(Grades K-4)
Folksongs with easy choruses, musical games and stories, with an emphasis on having fun singing together.

Paws, Claw and Tails
(Grade K-4)
Traditional children’s folk songs about farm animals and wild beasts.

Halloween Songs
(Grades K-5)
Traditional and contemporary English and American chants and folk songs for All Hallow’s Eve.

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Dragons, Dreams and Daring Deeds
(Grades 1-4)
Traditional folksongs about damsels in distress, giants with magical powers and the knights who rescue the former and slay the latter.

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Songs of Woody Guthrie: American Balladeer
(Grades 2-12)
Woody Guthrie (1912-1967) wrote over 1,000 American folksongs in his lifetime – and he didn’t use an original melody for single one of them! This sing along program tells the true story of the man who wrote “This Land is Your Land,” the best known English language folksong on the planet.

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Red Ribbon Week Program
(Grades 3-12)
An amusing and educational program of traditional and historical folk songs that address the problems of substance abuse through history.

Whaling and Sailing Songs
(Grades 3-12)
Songs of the sea, shanties, sailing songs, and whaling songs from the days of Moby Dick.

Songs of the Winter Holidays
(Grades 3-12)
Well-known and not-so-well-known traditional folk songs and carols for New Year’s, Hanukkah, Christmas, and the Winter Solstice.

Going to the West - California History Program
(Grades 4-12)
Folk songs of the California Gold Rush: the westward migration, Native American views and values, and stewardship of the land.

Cowboy Songs and Ballads
(Grades 4-12)
An introduction to Western folk songs: the music of real, hard-working American cowboys and the legends that have grown up about them.

Colonial Days - American Colonies Program
(Grades 5-12)
An exploration of life in the American colonies: ballads, broadsides and folksongs from the War for Independence.

Songs of the American Labor Movement
(Grades 6-12)
Folk songs about the people who built America and their struggle to improve the conditions of their labor.

Humor in Folksong
(Grades 4-12)
What makes us laugh? What makes a song funny? For centuries humans have used humor to temper the hardships of life. Examples of understatement and exaggeration, the humor in seeing ourselves as others see us, and the differences between parodies, satires and broadsides.

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Evolution of the Ballad
(Grades 6-12)
When a song becomes firmly established in the oral tradition, it often produces floating stanzas that attach themselves to other, often unrelated songs. Explore the relationship between seemingly different folksongs and ballads, tracing their evolution through several centuries and musical genres.

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When That Great Ship Went Down
(Grades 6-12)
People’s taste in the evening news hasn’t changed much in 500 years. Murders, shipwrecks and disasters of epic proportions have long been a mainstay in story and song. From the old English ballads to the sinking of the Titanic, folksongs chronicling human tragedies have remained popular through the ages.