Sunday, February 12, 2012

Time:  2:30 p.m. (please be prompt)

Cost:  FREE!  All are welcome

Please be prompt.  Juice and cookies to follow.

Jim Gill offers more than a show to watch.  It's an opportunity for family play!  In concert, Jim bangs out energetic rhythms on his banjo while everyone claps, jumps, dances and even sneezes along. The concert is filled, of course, with songs from Jim’s award-winning recordings and features a read-along and sing-along of Jim’s musical books for young children. 

Jim Gill is known as a musician and author, but he is also, by training, a child development specialist with a graduate degree from the Erikson Institute of Chicago.  Because of his studies,  his goal has always been to promote active play between adults and children with his music.   Anyone who has ever seen one of Jim’s family concerts knows that rather than performing for  the children and parents, Jim leads them to sing and play together. 

Jim has released five recordings of his music play for children. His most recent, Jim Gill Sings Moving Rhymes for Modern Times, was described as “A 14-song soundtrack for children and their parents at play” by the Los Angeles Daily News.  The CD was one of only two music recordings in the nation to receive  a 2007 Notable Children’s Recording Award from the American Library Association (the same organization that names the Caldecott and Newberry Awards to books).

Jim is the author of  two picture books, A Soup Opera and May There Always Be Sunshine.  All of Jim’s work can be sampled at jimgill.com.