Kids Workshops

Kids Workshops   Room 106  & 152   

Celebrate YOU in Song! with Robin Echols Cooper
1 – 1:45pm, Room 106

Celebrate your beautiful name in song. You can help create the music by using rhythm instruments. The song could also be created for someone special.

Robin Echols Cooper is a teaching artist and storyteller. She enjoys presenting her Literature Leap program which excites children about reading through the Arts. She infuses music in all of her programs.

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Dances for Families & Kids, with Janice Fields Pohl
2 – 2:45pm, Room 106

Janice Fields Pohl is on the staff of Campus International School at Cleveland State University. The violinist has performed with Johnny Mathias, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, YoYo Ma, Babyface and many others. 

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Songs for Kids and Families, with Nate McDonald
3 – 3:45pm, Room 106

Nate McDonald of Daddy & the Chickenhawks will play some of his family’s favorite traditional American songs for kids. Listen or sing along with animal songs, cowboy songs, and other classics on Guitar, Banjo, Ukulele, kazoo, etc. All are welcome, and kids approx. ages 3-12 are a great match for this workshop.

Nate has been playing and singing traditional songs with kids since he was a kid himself, and as a teacher and parent. He comes from a musical family and lives on a farm in Chardon with his wife and three kids—the Chickenhawks.

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Celebrate YOU in Song! with Robin Echols Cooper
4 – 4:45pm, Room 106

Celebrate your beautiful name in song. You can help create the music by using rhythm instruments. The song could also be created for someone special.

Robin Echols Cooper is a teaching artist and storyteller. She enjoys presenting her Literature Leap program which excites children about reading through the Arts. She infuses music in all of her programs.

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Piedmont Blues: Ragtime to Rock & Roll, with Charlie Mosbrook & Mark Freeman 
5 – 5:45pm, Room 152

Charlie Mosbrook and Mark Freeman welcome children and adults to join them exploring how Piedmont blues can be found in today’s songs.

Mark Freeman is a singer/songwriter from Cleveland, Ohio. He plays primarily with alternate tunings. Mark’s interest in Piedmont blues is a major part of growing up with his grandfather.

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Charlie Mosbrook isn’t afraid to describe his music as folk music. The truth is, he celebrates it in every way, pursuing a lifetime goal of building community as a performer, educator, workshop leader, songwriter, storyteller, humorist, activist, and advocate for folk music. An award-winning songwriter, his career began in 1988 as a musical journey of service. In his earliest adventures as a street musician and open mic host, he could clearly see the power in the accessible simplicity, while understanding the complexity and depth of folk music in its many forms.