Joanie Calem

Dancing Through the Seasons with Joanie Calem

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Fun sing-along songs, some traditional folk with added lyrics, and some brand new, easy-to-learn songs, that will get children up and moving and pretending as they dance and sing their way through the four seasons and the changes that happen in nature.

tracks

: 1 Seasons Train
: 2 The North Wind
: 3 Wintertime
: 4 Winter Clothes
: 5 Snow is Falling
: 6 Spring Is A-Comin'
: 7 Thunder and Lightning
: 8 It Rained A Mist
: 9 Butterflies
: 10 5 Little Bunnies
: 11 Goin' to the Beach
: 12 It's Summertime
: 13 Gotta Get Cool
: 14 Looking for Whales
: 15 Fall Is Here
: 16 Peep Squirrel
: 17 The Turkey Song
: 18 Autumn Leaves
: 19 Seasons Train (reprise)

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notes

I am a musician, singer/songwriter and teacher. I grew up in a family that loved to sing. Long car-trips were filled with hours of singing old folk, union, civil -rights and peace songs. As a teenager, I went overseas for a year abroad in Israel, and 22 years later, moved back to the United States! During that extended "year," I learned to sing Israeli folk songs, and dance to Palestinian drums and Egyptian violins.

When I began teaching music, I realized that asking children to sit still went against their natural inclination to move. I discovered children learn and appreciate the music better when they are allowed to move.

When my own children were born, I realized that before children can speak, they sing and dance, moving their whole bodies, humming along, often perfectly in tune! This collection of songs is dedicated to the hundreds of children who have danced their way through the seasons with me over the past number of years!

A special thanks to my husband and children.........who put up with my glazed eyes and guitar and piano pounding when I am hatching a new song in my head!

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Dancing Through the Seasons
author: Brigid Finucane
As an early childhood music teacher it is always a joy to discover a singer/songwriter like Joanie Calem. Her use of language is poetic, evoking different experiences and seasons with grace and indelible imagery. Two of the nicest winter songs I’ve heard know are on this collection: ‘Snow is Falling’, built on a simple scale, is light and airy as a snowflake. My 3-5 year old students really took off with it, playing step bells or resonator bars for accompaniment. 'Wintertime', a good rocking song, casts a dreamy spell and captures the beauty of the season. The chorus,‘Wintertime is cold time, slow time, snow time. Winter is the soft time of the year’, perfectly separates the exploration of animals active in winter. Evocative language is also beautifully used in ‘Looking for Whales’, ‘Butterflies’ and ‘Autumn Leaves.’ The zipper song, ‘Spring Is A-Comin’ and ‘It Rained a Mist’ are welcome songs that greatly expand classroom activities. Calem is not only a fine wordsmith, she also crafts distinctive, often haunting, melodies. I would recommend this collection to teachers, parents, and libraries who are open to a unique, non-commercial artist who has wonderful things to share.