Jazz for Young Children:  Susan Milligan and Louise Rogers combine jazz music, storytelling and improvisational theater techniques to teach music, literature and social skills to young children.
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Bop Boo Day and Jazzy Fairy Tales are both available for performances. The programs have been performed at many places including museums, schools, book stores, libraries and birthday parties. To book your performance now, please contact Louise at louise@jazzforyoungchildren.com.


BOP BOO DAY!

Program can be modified to work for pre-k through grade 4

From their self produced CD, Bop Boo Day!, Louise Rogers and Rick Strong celebrate some of the greatest artists of jazz. Through songs, poems and stories, very young children are introduced to Ella Fitzgerald, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie. In a call-and-response style, Rogers sings and scats and the kids respond, making the performance an interactive experience for all.


JAZZY FAIRY TALES

Best suited for pre-k through grade 2

Jazzy Fairy Tales: With the assistance of Susan Milligan's storytelling and inventive lyrical reworkings, Strong and Rogers turn fairy tales already familiar to preschoolers into jazzy versions that will delight all ages. Swing, boogie and dance as the playfulness of jazz gives these original versions of well known fairy tales new life! Children are transported into a magical world where chocolate pudding tames a wolf, bears boogie and sing the blues, and trolls and goats scat and dance on tippy toes over bridges. Fun stanzas like "Bop Boo Bop, Bop Boo Bay, Piggy feet hop, Piggy feet play", sung with an Andrews Sisters swing will make children want to sing, dance and bop along in this interactive performance piece.