Kid Pan Alley Comes to Whole Foods Market in Charlottesville
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Concerts at Noon & 5pm
Kid Pan Alley founder Paul Reisler, local singer-songwriter Terri Allard and children from the Charlottesville community will be giving two performances at Whole Foods Market, 1416 Seminole Trail, Charlottesville, Virginia on Wednesday, February 27. The performances – one at noon and the other at 5pm -- are part of Whole Foods Market 5% Days (or CommUnity Giving Days). Five percent of the day's net sales will go to the Charlottesville-Albemarle Kid Pan Alley project. Representatives from Kid Pan Alley will be in Whole Foods Market from 8am to 10pm. For more information call Whole Foods Market (434) 973-4900 or go to
www.kidpanalley.org
Kid Pan Alley has written 80 songs with over 1600 children in eight elementary schools in our community this past year including: Johnson Elementary, Jackson-Via Elementary, Red Hill Elementary, Cale Elementary, Broadus Wood Elementary, Brownsville Elementary, Greer Elementary, and the Peabody School. While the focus of the 2007-2008 residencies was on the songwriting in the classroom, Kid Pan Alley is currently producing a CD of a selection of songs from each of these schools, recorded by professional musicians in the community. The CD project is modeled after the Kid Pan Alley Nashville CD, which features the Nashville Chamber Orchestra, Amy Grant, Delbert McClinton, Kix Brooks (of Brooks and Dunn), the Nashville Bluegrass band and many more. Kid Pan Alley Nashville received a Grammy nomination and won a number of other awards including a Parents’ Choice Gold Award.
The Charlottesville-Albemarle Kid Pan Alley project has already enlisted the talents of John McCutcheon, Corey Harris, Shannon Worrell, Terri Allard, Paul Reisler, Schuyler Fisk, John D’earth, Robert Jospe, Ellis Paul, Devon Sproule, Paul Curreri, Ann Marie Calhoun, Trees on Fire and many more professional musicians in our community
A CD release and community concert has been set for October 4, 2008 at the Paramount Theater.
Come shop and support the Charlottesville-Albemarle Kid Pan Alley project all at the same time. For more information call Whole Foods Market (434) 973-4900.