Kid Pan Alley: Past News

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A musical journey through the universe--songs written by Paul Reisler with the children of Charlottesville, VA recorded by Cracker, Sissy Spacek, Corey Harris, John McCutcheon, Jesse Winchester, Sparky's Flaw and a host of others.

Take a look at the faces of the children on this page and listen to some of their songs. Won't you help us bring this program to inner-city and under served schools? Kid Pan Alley is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization (legal name The Crescent Theatre Company d/b/a Kid Pan Alley). Our FEIN is 20-1609731. Donations are tax deductible to the full extent of the law

Kid Pan Alley founder was featured on National Public Radio's Morning Edition. KPA founder, Paul Reisler, was interviewed by host, Renee Montagne and they played segments from 6 songs. The program is heard by over 13 million people.
You can still catch it on the NPR website:

Sunday, March 14 from 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Martin Luther King, Jr. Performing Arts Center
Charlottesville High School, Charlottesville, VA

Join local area children as they perform songs written in Kid Pan Alley residencies this school year, as well as songs featured on the Charlottesville-Albemarle Kid Pan Alley CD, I Used to Know the Names of All the Stars.

Get more information about the event and purchase tickets at Eventbrite. 

On Wednesday, March 10, the X-Lounge in Charlottesville is hosting a Dine & Donate event to benefit Kid Pan Alley. Enjoy great food and the X-Lounge will give 10% of all food sales to Kid Pan Alley.

Every Wednesday in March, 2010, Kid Pan Alley will be receiving a percentage of the sales at Maya Restaurant in Charlottesville. Enjoy a great 'made from scratch' meal prepared with local ingredients and help Kid Pan Alley at the same time!

Rising songwriting phenom Carsie Blanton, who recorded "Blue Valentine" for Kid Pan Alley's first professional CD, Tidal Wave of Song, performs along the Eastern Seaboard this summer. For two performances, Carsie will share the stage with Devon Sproule, who, with husband Paul Curreri, recorded "What" on the Kid Pan Alley Charlottesville CD I Used to Know the Names of All the Stars. Performances include:
Jul 29 2009 8:00P
Windup Space w/ Devon Sproule
Baltimore, Maryland
Jul 30 2009 8:00P
IS Venue w/ Devon Sproule and Andrew Gregory
Charlottesville, Virginia
Be sure to check each artists' website for more opportunities to hear them!

Kid Pan Alley founder, Paul Reisler is interviewed by Charlottesville Inside Out host Terri Allard. Terri also works with Kid Pan Alley so it is really inside out.

We're pleased to announce that we have received the major support of the following donors in January:
The Band Foundation
Toni Massie
Carlie Zug and Steve Szymanski

These donations will help us reach more inner city and underserved schools across the country.

Kid Pan Alley songwriters Kathy Hussey and Paddy Dougherty spent 2 weeks in Lynchburg, VA writing songs with kids at T.C. Miller Elementary and James River Day School. Here's a great interview with them on public radio.
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An intergenerational Kid Pan alley workshop with seniors from JABA Senior Center and children from Greer Elemenatary in Charlottesville. To see the pictures:

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Greer ES-JABA Senior Center residency

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Kid Pan Alley songwriters Paul Reisler and Terri Allard are writing 8 songs with the children during the week of November 17th.
To see photos:

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KPA Peabody 1108

To see a video and hear the song Candles, Children of the Sun, click here:

Kid Pan Alley's Paul Reisler and Terri Allard are back at Broadus Wood Elementary in Earlysville, VA this week. Come see the concert at 7 pm on Friday. We'll post some pictures and songs here as we go along. We've got some great songs. Here's a video of a song we wrote on Tuesday:
Here's a link to the photos:

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Broadus Wood

Kid Pan Alley's Paul Reisler, Terri Allard and Donald Sosin spent the last week of October at Jackson-Via Elementary School in Charlottesville. We love this school. It's our 3rd time there.
We wrote 4 songs for the Virginia Film Festival's Silent Film showing of Jack and the Beanstalk, Gulliver's Travels, Alice in Wonderland, and Chaplin's The Immigrant. We performed them at the Paramount Theater with the films on Nov 1. Donald plays for silent films all over the world. In addition to the songs we wrote, he and his partner, Joanna Seaton provided the accompaniment to the films.

To see the video and hear a song:
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We held our album release concert on October 4th at the beautiful Paramount Theatre in Charlottesville. We had a fantastic band and many of the artists that appeared on the album.
Here are some photos from that event.

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Paramount Concert

One highlight of this year’s residencies was the first intergenerational residency held at Brownsville Elementary School in Crozet, Virginia September 8-12, 2008. In collaboration with JABA and Brownsville Elementary School, Kid Pan Alley invited senior citizens from the community and from Mountainside Senior Living to talk with the children about their own experiences growing up in Crozet. The young songwriters then wrote songs based on the oral histories that they heard from the seniors. These songs included topics about playing soccer with an old tin can, living and working on a family farm, and also a thoughtful look into the future which examined how the children might be different at their own high school reunion.

In addition, children from Brownsville traveled to Mountainside Senior Living and provided the seniors with information on what life is currently like for a child growing up in Crozet. The seniors then wrote their own song about how life is like a game and how everyone has got to participate in spite of the ups and downs. At the end of the week, both children and seniors performed their songs in an afternoon school assembly and also an evening concert which was open to the public.

“I think the experience was a wonderful one for our students. I hope that spirit of talking with older citizens can continue in some way. I also think it would be a great field trip for our 5th graders to go and visit to have conversations, not just deliver gifts or perform. I think they might be able to see more senior citizens if we went to them since it looked like the transportation was a challenge. I think we should still invite them to some of our school performances such as our 5th grade production. The sharing of their stories and life experiences was what made the experience so rich.”----Jo Vining, Principal, Brownsville Elementary School

“Personally...I think it was GREAT !!! It did so much for the residents to be able to interact with the children and to share their stories. I had residents who never participate in activities of any kind participate last week. It truly was worth while...lots of work but worth while. The best thing for us here at Mountainside is it has opened the door (school door) for us to have a way in now.”------Tammy Sue Besecker, Mountainside Senior Living Activities Director

To see a video and hear a song:

Paul and Donald wrote songs with the kids at Peabody Charter for the 2nd year.
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Paul Reisler and Donald Sosin spent a week at Roosevelt Elementary in Santa Barbara. Here's a video and some photos. Thanks to Kate Yamasaki for all the great pictures, the Santa Barbara Bowl, Principal Donna Ronzone, Eric Shifflet and Jodi Mitchell.
Watch the video of I've Got Hair and You Don't To see the photos:

An in-depth hour long interview with Kid Pan Alley founder Paul Reisler and guest Terri Allard. Includes calls from listeners and eight song segments.
Hear the interview

We've just completed our Kid Pan Alley residency at the birthplace of Kid Pan Alley--Rappahannock Elementary School. That's right, the very first KPA residency was at RCES in 1999.
Click the link to see a video of some of the pictures from the residency along with a great song, Wake Up, performed live by the Kid Pan Alley Band at the concert on May 2nd.
The band includes Paul Reisler, Terri Allard, Nate Brown, Steve van Dam, Smiggy Smith, Ben Mason, Kelsa Settle, Linda Orfila and the children of Rappahannock.

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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.

See Paul on NewsChannel 5 Nashville leading a group of kids through the songwriting process. Note: Thanks for being patient for the file to download. It's well worth the wait.

Kid Pan Alley Nashville national release in August on Compass Records. Compass is a wonderful label out of Nashville that is home to a bunch of wonderful artists including Beth Nielsen Chapman, Fairport Convention, Solas and many others. www.compassrecords.com
The album, produced by Paul Reisler, Paul Gambill and Fred Bogert, features some of Nashville's finest singers, songwriters and musicians. There were over 19 Grammy award winners involved in the project. The artist's singing the songs we wrote with the kids included: Amy Grant, Kix Brooks, Suzy Bogguss, Delbert McClinton, Tommy Sims, Raul Malo, Nashville Bluegrass Band, Nashville Chamber Orchestra, Beth Nielsen Chapman, Darrell Scott, Kim Richey, Lari White, Jonell Mosser, Mustafa, Paul Colman, Will Hoge, John Bindel, and Jimmy Hall.

Songwriters who worked with KPA founder Paul Reisler on the project include: Beth Nielsen Chapman , Jon Vezner, Bill Lloyd, Jason Blume, James Dean Hicks, Gary Nicholson, Jim Photoglo, Chuck Jones, Angela Kaset, Melissa Javors, Rick Beresford, Pam Rose, and John Knowles.

The project is a partnership with the Nashville Chamber Orchestra.
You can get an advance copy now from http://www.cdbaby.com/kidpanalley2

Kid Pan Alley Nashville receives Grammy nomination and wins Parents’ Choice and NAPPA Gold Awards. Even before the album has been released nationally, we have been racking up some wonderful awards.

Recent grants: We’re honored to have received our 4th ASCAP Foundation Irving Caesar Fund award as well as grants from the D’Addarrio Foundation for the Performing Arts, William and Mary Greve Foundation, the Mockingbird Foundation, and many others. Here’s a list of our major donors:
American Express Foundation, ASCAP Foundation, Chateauville Foundation - Lorin and Dietlinde Maazel, Boult, Cummings, Conner and Berry, Community Foundation of Richmond, Caterpillar Financial Products, D’Addario Foundation for the Performing Arts, Folk Music.org, Gannett Foundation, HCA Foundation, Headwaters Foundation, Hesed Foundation, Ki Theatre, Lexus of Nashville, Maine Community Foundation, Memorial Foundation, Miller Family Foundation, Mockingbird Foundation, Nashville Chamber Orchestra, Nashville Metro Arts Commission, Nashville Gas, Nashville Public Radio, Oasis CD Duplication, Piedmont Natural Gas, Primus Financial Services, Purity Foundation, Rappahannock Assn. for the Arts , Target Stores, Turner Family Foundation, Virginia Commission for the Arts, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, William and Mary Greve Foundation.