Kid Pan Alley: Recent Residencies

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's FEIN is 20-1609731. Donations are tax deductible to the full extent of the law.

Vermont Strong, A song by Ms. Pine's 3rd grade at Union Elementary School.  All the songs from this residency are being arranged for orchestra and will be performed  on March 31st by the Montpelier Chamber Orchestra.

A beautiful song about Christmas written by 3rd graders at Claude Thompson Elementary

A great song about Christmas from Kid Pan Alley's Paul Reisler and Paddy Dougherty and the kids at MM Pierce Elementary, We Forgot About Christmas.

If I Lived on a Dirt Road

By Paul Reisler, Terri Allard and Mr. Marshall’s 4th grade

 

Now I live on a dirt road 

And I play the banjo and the fiddle

Birds are singing in the nighttime

Crickets chirpin’ until the sunrise

Now I live on a dirt road

‘Til the end of my days

Now I live on a dirt road

‘Til the end of my days

 

A Million Miles Away

By Paul Reisler with Terri Allard and Ms. Maclay’s 3rd grade, Brownsville

 

A million miles away. Light years apart

But I still hold you close. Deep down in my heart

Deep as the ocean. Deep in my dreams

As close as a Yes. That’s how it will seem. To me. To me

Here's a video from our residency this week in Charlottesville with Woodbrook Elementary about Halloween.

A video from an intergenerational residency in Springfield,VA at Forestdale Elementary

Here's a video from an intergenerational project in Charlottesville with Jackson-Via Elementary and JABA the week of October 3-7.

Here's a video from an intergenerational project in Lynchburg with The Summit and Sheffield Elementary:

 

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An amazing song about breaking up written by 4th graders:

Paul Reisler and Paddy Dougherty led a week-long Across the Ages intergenerational residency at John Hancock Demonstration School in Philadelphia. Here's a song and a video from that week. 

Here's a song from our residency in Front Royal, VA working with kids at A.S. Rhodes Elementary, Mountain Laurel Montessori along with elders from Loving Arms Assisted Living. Here's a wonderful song written by the elders, based upon stories that the children told them, called "Now That I'm Older than Dirt."

 

Segment from the TV10 original series "Arts Spotlight" featuring Kid Pan Alley in Charlottesville, Virginia.

<p> Here's a video from our intergenerational residency at Springfield Estates Elementary School this week. I love this song. It's all about being born as artists with our minds wide open.Concert April 1 at 7 pm!! <iframe frameborder="0" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/iDvyTUT9o38" width="560" height="349"></iframe> 

We had a great time with the kids at MM Pierce Elementary in Remington, VA. Here's a video:

March 21-25, 2011 • Kid Pan Alley Intergenerational Residency • M. M. Pierce ES, Remington, VA • Concert on 25th at 7 pm.

We wrote 16 songs in March with students from Rappahannock Elementary, Wakefield, Hearthstone, and Mountain Laurel Montessori, as well as elders from the Rappahannock Senior Center. The concert was amazing with about 600 people in attendance and the fabulous 7-piece Kid Pan Alley Band.

Here's a beautiful song written by Ms. Way's 3rd grade class at Rappahannock Elementary School in Washington, VA. The kids performed it in a big Kid Pan Alley Band concert on March 18th at the school, together with students from Wakefield, Mountain Laurel, and Hearthstone Schools and senior citizens at the Rappahannock Senior Center.

Kid Pan Alley songwriters Paul Reisler and Melinda Caroll worked with kids at Parker School in Waimea and the Montessori School in Hawi in Hawaii in February. It looks like our Hawaii program is really growing, we have 3 weeks scheduled on the Big Island for next year and are working on residencies on Oahu and Maui.

Here's a song we wrote with the kids at Parker School in Waimea.

Here's an amazing song about adoption we wrote this week with 4th and 5th graders at Patrick Henry Charter School in Richmond. It's the first elementary charter school  in Virginia.  Since this is their 1st year as a school we also wrote a school song, Patrick Henry Said.

A song from RS Payne Elementary in Lynchburg, VA

A video from Peabody School

See a video of one of our favorite Kid Pan Alley songs, Best Friends. Learn it and sing it to your best friend. Be our best friend and contribute to Kid Pan Alley and help inspire children across the country to be creators of their own music, not just consumers of popular culture.

Here's a video of a song we wrote the week of Sept. 27-Oct. 1 at Brownsville Elementary about the pesky stink bug. The ABC/CBS station in Charlottesville covered it on the news: Watch the newscast.