Community Songs for All Ages with Joe Reilly
Come join folk enthusiasts ages 3 - 13 and their family for fun singing community songs!
Fiddle Scouts is a gathering of music enthusiasts ages 3-13 and their families who love to play with music. Each gathering features a local or regional folk musician who is adept at sharing music with everyone in the room. Fiddle Scouts often involves drumming, singing or playing a new instrument! Every gathering is different. Suggested donation is $5 per child or $10 per family and can be paid online at the link below or with cash in person. Click here to make a donation to Fiddle Scouts!
“I started to bring my guitar as a way to enhance the teaching, and I found that the kids just connected with the music so well,” Reilly says. “It grew very organically. I started doing more direct environmental education through my songwriting.” Joe Reilly, the children’s troubadour, was born.
“I never sat down and said, ‘I’m going to write a bunch of songs about nature with kids.’ That’s just the way the music led me.”
Joe Reilly is a singer, songwriter, social worker, Dharma teacher, and educator who writes songs from his heart. Joe’s songs are playful, clever, engaging, joyful, and always have something meaningful to say. The core of his message is an invitation to heal our relationships with ourselves, with each other, and with the earth.
Joe uses his music to bring people together and build community across lines of race, class, gender, ethnicity, religion, age, and nationality.
Joe is of Italian, Irish, and Native American (Cherokee/Choctaw) ancestry, and was raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan in a creative household by musical parents who encouraged him to find his own voice. He spent five years as a member of the Treetown Singers, an inter-tribal Native drum group based in Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti, Michigan, before he began writing and sharing his own original songs.
Joe’s aspiration is to water seeds of compassion, joy, healing, inclusive community, and peace in our collective consciousness through the sharing of music.
Joe has recorded ten albums, including four children’s albums, and is a member of the Earthwork Music Collective.
Learn more about Joe here:
http://www.timeout.com/chicago/kids/activities/joe-reilly-connects-kids-to-nature-through-song
Come join folk enthusiasts ages 3 – 13 and their family for fun with folk music. Refreshments provided. Do your children love to sing? Come to Fiddle Scouts! See you there! For more information, contact Tamiko Rothhorn at 517.974.3751 or email her at fiddlescouts@gmail.com.
Top image: © Silver Thumb Photo
Fiddle Scouts is a gathering of music enthusiasts ages 3-13 and their families who love to play with music. Each gathering features a local or regional folk musician who is adept at sharing music with everyone in the room. Fiddle Scouts often involves drumming, singing or playing a new instrument! Every gathering is different. Suggested donation is $5 per child or $10 per family and can be paid online at the link below or with cash in person. Click here to make a donation to Fiddle Scouts!
“I started to bring my guitar as a way to enhance the teaching, and I found that the kids just connected with the music so well,” Reilly says. “It grew very organically. I started doing more direct environmental education through my songwriting.” Joe Reilly, the children’s troubadour, was born.
“I never sat down and said, ‘I’m going to write a bunch of songs about nature with kids.’ That’s just the way the music led me.”
Joe Reilly is a singer, songwriter, social worker, Dharma teacher, and educator who writes songs from his heart. Joe’s songs are playful, clever, engaging, joyful, and always have something meaningful to say. The core of his message is an invitation to heal our relationships with ourselves, with each other, and with the earth.
Joe uses his music to bring people together and build community across lines of race, class, gender, ethnicity, religion, age, and nationality.
Joe is of Italian, Irish, and Native American (Cherokee/Choctaw) ancestry, and was raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan in a creative household by musical parents who encouraged him to find his own voice. He spent five years as a member of the Treetown Singers, an inter-tribal Native drum group based in Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti, Michigan, before he began writing and sharing his own original songs.
Joe’s aspiration is to water seeds of compassion, joy, healing, inclusive community, and peace in our collective consciousness through the sharing of music.
Joe has recorded ten albums, including four children’s albums, and is a member of the Earthwork Music Collective.
Learn more about Joe here:
http://www.timeout.com/chicago/kids/activities/joe-reilly-connects-kids-to-nature-through-song
Come join folk enthusiasts ages 3 – 13 and their family for fun with folk music. Refreshments provided. Do your children love to sing? Come to Fiddle Scouts! See you there! For more information, contact Tamiko Rothhorn at 517.974.3751 or email her at fiddlescouts@gmail.com.
Top image: © Silver Thumb Photo