"You had the audience spellbound from start to finish!" --Marji Dickinson, Special Program Committee, Academy for Lifelong Learning
" Thanks for an outstanding job! " --Chuck Haugh, Cub Master Pack 83, Burnt Hills, NY
" Thanks for coming. Your songs and stories were wonderful." --4th grader" Delightfully entertaining." --ALA Booklist
" You were fabulous! " --Melinda Georgeson, Director of Education, Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA
" Top notch." --School Library Journal
What's New
Tales 'n Tunes are now on Facebook!
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And we’re running an End of Summer Sale! From August 1 until the end of September, we are offering a 1/3 off sale of two same-day shows booked together. So schools or libraries in the same district or library system, could book us for the same day and each would get a 33 1/3% discount. and you may choose any available date through December 2011.
This offer is valid only on bookings made between August 1 to September 30.
For Summer Reading Programs 2011:
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For Halloween:
For the Holidays:
CELEBRATIONS AROUND THE WORLD
We wish you a summertime full of stories. If we don't see you in August or September, we hope to spin a tale and sing a tune for you this Fall or Winter. And we hope you'll get "on board" with us in Summer 2011 for our Musical Journey Around the World!
Our Summer Reading Program schedule is full swing, but we’re already gearing up for Fall, the holidays and 2011 Summer Reading Programs.
WORLD PASSPORT: A MUSICAL JOURNEY AROUND THE GLOBE
Pack your bags! Grab your boarding passes! We’ll travel around the world with the award-winning musical storytelling duo, Tales ‘n Tunes. In this sing-along, clap-along, highly interactive program, we’ll visit many countries. Through folk tales and multicultural songs from around the globe, young readers will explore our cultural diversity while celebrating the common bonds we share with our neighbors throughout the world. It’s an exciting, lively and fun musical story event that encourages summer reading program participants to want to learn more, through books, about this world of ours. Fasten your seat belts!
HARVEST HIJINKS
Full of contagious energy, multi-award winning storytellers, Tales 'n Tunes and their entourage of dancing scarecrows, stomping pumpkins and singing crows make for some hilarious hijinks in the cornfield and the garden patch. The duo sizzles on stage with traditional folklore gone fun and revved-up music and storytelling! Audiences don't just listen -- they sing, clap, chant and roar! Fall fun at its finest.
SPOOKTACULAR SONGS AND STORIES
Tales ‘n Tunes will treat you to some slightly shivery tales and spooky songs! No trick! Enjoy a performance which includes tales and tunes that will provide a balance of fright and delight for a family audience. This sing-along, clap-along high-participation show, will feature silly spooks and elicit ghostly giggles as the performers give young listeners and their families a witchy brew of Halloween fun.
HOLLY JOLLY HOLIDAYS SONGS AND STORIES
Celebrate the season with songs and stories of the holidays. A festive combination of music and storytelling excitement, this performance will spark kids' imaginations and get everybody in a holiday mood. Do you hear sleigh bells jingling? Come and sing along!
This program highlights, through story and song, the season of lights and the holidays of Christmas, Hanukkah, Dewali, Kwanzaa, and Ramadan. The tales included in the program, for presentation in late November and December, feature the giving of gifts and the closeness of friends and family. And there is plenty of opportunity to sing along in this program developed for children and their families.
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