VanderCook College of Music
August 3-4, 2024
Chicago, IL USA
Join us for a weekend workshop at VanderCook College of Music
Receive 1 graduate credit! |
What Can I Expect?
Expect to have FUN with hands-on learning through active participation! Instruments will be provided for use during the weekend workshop. We will move, sing, play, and create while designing activities to address all learning styles.
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Suitable for upper elementary music educators (general or beginning band)
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Presented by Brittany Bauman
Author of the award-winning WindStars pre-band curriculum |
In view of the recent situation with COVID-19 and school closures, WindStars launches free “Play Along” online lessons to offer parents a virtual music class for their children. The lessons are based on the WindStars music curriculum, an award-winning, pre-band music program with books. It is a simple, effective, and affordable way for elementary school kids to experience the joy of playing music together. The lessons start in WindStars 1,”Sound Before Sight” and will progress through the other two levels.
WindStars uses Nuvo instruments that are inexpensive, lightweight, durable and easy to maintain. The instruments are musically authentic and are designed to teach skills that help children quickly transfer to beginning band instruments when they are ready. Nuvo instruments are 100% waterproof so they can be easily sanitized in hot soapy water.
Click here to watch WIndStars Play Along lessons.
Be sure to subscribe to the WindStars Education YouTube channel and get notified as soon as new lessons are released.
At Winter NAMM 2019, we were thrilled and honored to have Windstars winning the Best in Show award. It was selected by George Quinlin of Quinlin & Fabish, Illinois.
“Nuvo has developed a line of pre-band instruments, and they perform much like traditional band instruments. They require a certain amount of air to get them to play, and it’s not designed to replace what’s already happening to recruit kids into music programs. And it’s not designed to replace traditional flutes and clarinets and brass instruments, either. It’s really something that’s totally new and in-between. It has a purpose simply to get kids excited about playing wind instruments.”
Music Inc. Magazine’s article on Best in Show highlights: http://www.musicincmag.com/News/2019/013119/013119_BIS.html
Full award ceremony available on NAMM’s website. Skip to 1:04:40 to watch Nuvo WindStars addressed by George Quinlin: https://www.namm.org/nammu/best-show-6
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