LOUISE ROGERS, SUSAN MILLIGAN, RICK STRONG: Jazzy Fairy Tales

Louise Rogers, Susan Milligan, Rick Strong

Jazzy Fairy Tales

© 2007 Rogers and Milligan, LLC (700261212968)

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Swing, boogie and dance as the playfulness of jazz gives these original versions of well known fairy tales new life.

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1 The Jazzy Pigs
2 The Jazzy Pigs
3 The Jazzy Pigs
4 The Jazzy Pigs
5 The Jazzy Pigs
6 The Jazzy Pigs
7 The Jazzy Pigs
8 The Jazzy Pigs
9 The Jazzy Pigs
10 The Jazzy Pigs
11 The Jazzy Pigs
12 The Jazzy Goats
13 The Jazzy Goats
14 The Jazzy Goats
15 The Jazzy Goats
16 The Jazzy Goats
17 The Jazzy Goats
18 The Jazzy Goats
19 The Jazzy Goats
20 The Jazzy Goats
21 The Jazzy Goats
22 The Jazzy Goats
23 The Jazzy Goats
24 The Jazzy Bears
25 The Jazzy Bears
26 The Jazzy Bears
27 The Jazzy Bears
28 The Jazzy Bears
29 The Jazzy Bears
30 The Jazzy Bears
31 The Jazzy Bears
32 The Jazzy Bears
33 The Jazzy Bears
34 The Jazzy Bears
35 The Jazzy Bears
36 The Jazzy Bears

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Swing, boogie and dance as the playfulness of jazz gives these original versions of well known fairy tales new life! From the first sounds of Rick's bass and Louise’s voice, children are transported into a magical world where chocolate pudding tames a wolf, bears boogie and sing the blues, and trolls and goats scat and dance on tippy toes over bridges.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Next Event:
PANCAKES IN THE PARK!
Louise Rogers and Rick Strong
with special guests - members of the Washington Heights Jazz Choir
Sunday, June 8
11am – 1pm.
Fort Tryon Park
Manhattan (Washington Heights)
$10/adults
$5/children 12 and under
Space is limited
To purchase tickets and for more information, please visit http://www.hhoc.org/fftp/events.html


Norway Bound!
Louise and Rick will be taking their kids act to Norway. They will be at the Oslo International School on April 22. On April 24, they will be at the International School of Stavanger and The British International School of Stavanger.

Month of May: 5 week Jazz Residency with Louise and California Avenue School in Long Island.
Louise will be exploring the life and Music of Ella Fitzgerald with the younger grades. The 5th grade will be the roots of jazz starting with slavery and the blues.

Sunday, May 4th: Bowery Poetry Club Kids: Louise and Rick perform songs from their hit CDs Bop Boo Day and Jazzy Fairy Tales.
The Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery Street (Between Houston and Bleecker)
F train to 2nd Ave, 6 to Bleecker
212-614-0505
www.bowerypoetry.com

May 15: The Young School
Louise and Rick perform songs from their hit CDs Bop Boo Day and Jazzy Fairy Tales.
1041 Maple Avenue
Ridgefield, N.J. 07657
(201) 945-5458
www.theyoungschool.com

Past Performances:
Saturday, March 8 JAZZY FAIRY TALES
$10 per kid or $25 family rate to
include 1 free CD per family/ticket price.
Ponds Church – Oakland, N.J.
11:00 am
http://netministries.org/see/churches/ch00778
Ramapo Valley Road at Oak Street
341 Ramapo Valley Road
Oakland, NJ 07436

Come Ready and See Me
CD Release Performance!!
Saturday, Feb 2, 6 pm
Free – one set
Art show with Lilia Levin
Barnes and Noble Lincoln Triangle
66th Street and Broadway


Ongoing:
Medical Center Nursery School – Music Specialist, Jazz and Storytelling with Susan Milligan

Washington Heights Jazz Choir – A Jazz Choir for children ages 6 – 12,
Director and founder, Louise Rogers
Thursdays at the Cornerstone Center, 189th and Bennett Ave., NYC
For more information, contact Louise at lrogers@panix.com


January 9 – 12 Toronto IAJE
Louise participates with Kim McCord talking about our work at the Viscardi School in Long Island.
To watch a video clip of my work at Viscardi, please go to http://www.abilitiesonline.org/RTI/REC/CollaborationsAndArtsAccess.aspx

January 16th – Louise and Rick perform for Uma Thurman's son's birthday party, NYC
(Private )

January 18, 23 and 25 – Residency at Brearly School on Louis Armstrong - 2nd grade.

February 4 - Performance for Viscardi High School with Beth Jecovy's Dance Visions, Long Island

February 4 – Clinic with Roxbury High School Jazz Choirs, Roxbury, N.J.

February 6 - Performance for Herricks High School with Beth Jecovy's Dance Visions, Long Island

February 12 – Clinics with elementary, middle and high school Jazz choirs at Patchogue-Medford
School district.

Wednesday, February 13 – JAZZY FAIRY TALES school performance
St. James Elementary, Long Island

Friday, January 22 – presenting at NJMEA conference on vocal jazz improvisation for all ages.

Saturday, March 1st Bowery Poetry Club – Louise and Rick performance- band tba – 6 – 8 pm

Saturday, March 8 JAZZY FAIRY TALES
$10 per kid or $25 family rate to
include 1 free CD per family/ticket price.
Ponds Church – Oakland, N.J.
http://netministries.org/see/churches/ch00778
Ramapo Valley Road at Oak Street
341 Ramapo Valley Road
Oakland, NJ 07436


Sunday, March 9 - The Harmonium Choral Society 2008 Musicianship Workshops
Morris County, NJ
A hands-on clinic to help choral singers experiment with vocal improvisation at all levels of choral music.

March 10 – 14 – Five day residency with Kim McCord
Grades pre-k thru 6
Viscardi School, Long Island

Saturday, March 15
Solo Vocal Jazz Adjudicator, Roxbury Choir Festival
Roxbury, N.J.

Saturday, March 29 – Washington Heights Jazz Choir Concert
6 pm
Free and open to the public!
All ages welcome
Concert lasts approximately 35 minutes

BOOK A PERFORMANCE FOR YOUR SCHOOL OR PARTY!

Bop Boo Day and Jazzy Fairy Tales are both available for performances. The programs have been performed at many places including museums, schools, book stores, libraries and birthday parties. To book your performance now, please contact Louise at louise@jazzforyoungchildren.com or lrogers@panix.com

Jazzy Fairy Tales
Best suited for pre-k through grade 2

Jazzy Fairy Tales: With the assistance of Susan Milligan’s storytelling and inventive lyrical reworkings, Strong and Rogers turn fairy tales already familiar to preschoolers into jazzy versions that will delight all ages. Swing, boogie and dance as the playfulness of jazz gives these original versions of well known fairy tales new life! Children are transported into a magical world where chocolate pudding tames a wolf, bears boogie and sing the blues, and trolls and goats scat and dance on tippy toes over bridges. Fun stanzas like “Bop Boo Bop, Bop Boo Bay, Piggy feet hop, Piggy feet play”, sung with an Andrews Sisters swing will make children want to sing, dance and bop along in this interactive performance piece.


Bop Boo Day!
Program can be modified to work for pre -k through grade 4

From their self produced CD, Bop Boo Day!, Louise Rogers and Rick Strong celebrate some of the greatest artists of jazz. Through songs, poems and stories, very young children are introduced to Ella Fitzgerald, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie. In a call-and-response style, Rogers sings and scats and the kids respond, making the performance an interactive experience for all.

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE FOR LATE FALL/EARLY WINTER 2007
Late Fall early winter 2007

Louise:On going Jazz residency (Sept. - Dec.) at Viscardi School for grades pre 1 – 6. School is located in Albertson, NY

Thursday, Nov. 8
Jazzy Fairy Tales
NAEYC Conference, Chicago, Ill
McCormack Place Convention Center
Presenting at 12:30: Susan Milligan and Louise Rogers
Performance: Louise Rogers and Rick Strong

Friday, Nov. 9
Jazzy Fairy Tales/Bop Boo Day performance for K - 6
Nathan Hale School, Schaumburg, Ill 9 am and 10 am

Friday, Nov. 9
Jazzy Fairy Tales/Bop Boo Day performance K – 6
River Grove School, River Grove, Ill.


Sunday, Dec. 9th
Jazzy Fairy Tales
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery between Bleeker and Houston
New York, NY 10012
212.614.0505 12 - 1pm $10
for more info go to http://www.bowerypoetry.com/


LOUISE ROGERS
PAST FALL PERFORMANCES 2007

Bowery Poetry Club
Sept. 8th Howlfest
noon –- 1 pm

October 9th
Deasy School
Long Island, NY
2 in-school performances grades K- 2


October 14th
Nanuet Library
Nanuet, N.J.
5 pm

October 21
Kiddie Corner
Alzheimer's Memory Walk
Riverside Park, NYC
9:00 to 11:00 am

October 24
Edgewater Barnes and Noble
Edgewater, N.J.
Educator's Night
5 pm

Sat. October 27
WBGO Jazz Concert for kids
Jersey City Museum
Jersey City, N.J.
350 Montgomery Street
12:30 pm

NAEYC Conference in Chicago - November 7 - 10. Watch for performances in the Chicago area.


"With the assistance of Susan Milligan’s storytelling and inventive lyrical reworkings, Strong and Rogers turn fairy tales already familiar to preschoolers into jazzy versions that will delight all ages. " Elliott Simon - All About Jazz, April 2007

“The most joyously encouraging way of expanding the audience for jazz I’ve heard … Louise Rogers and Susan Milligan have developed an exhilarating – and fun – jazz curriculum .” Nat Hentoff

Jazzy Fairy Tales is the result of our exciting collaboration as storyteller and jazz vocalist. Based on our belief that music and storytelling should be an integral part of every child's day, we decided to join jazz and storytelling and see what would happen. We began with The Three Little Pigs. The children found new life in the retelling of this well known story, as the magic and playfulness of jazz gave them the freedom to boogie with the pigs! Our jazzy fairy tales are now performed for hundreds of young children who sing, swing, and scat along with their favorite fairy tale characters. Now you can sing the blues with the pigs, dance with the goats, and scat with the bears as you enjoy these lively, original jazzy tales with the children you love!


Louise Rogers is a growing leader in the field of jazz education for children, as well as an accomplished performer. Nat Hentoff praised her as "the most joyously encouraging way of expanding the audience for jazz". Her most recent CD, "Bass-ically Speaking", a CD of bass and voice featuring her husband, bassist Rick Strong, has been hailed by Jerry Bergonzi as a "Masterful performance... refreshing to hear." She has 2 jazz CDs out for children “Bop Boo Day” and “Jazzy Fairy Tales”. “Come Ready and See Me” is her newest jazz CD which will be released in June 2007. In addition to performing, Louise runs a children’s jazz choir and works regularly with students from preschool age through high school. She is the music specialist at The Medical Center Nursery School, a teaching artist in NYC and Long Island and a voice instructor at Roxbury High School in New Jersey. She is frequently hired as a clinician to work with jazz choirs primarily involving vocal improvisation instruction and adjudicates in the solo vocal category. Her innovation and success in jazz education led to her invitation to present a clinic at the prestigious International Association for Jazz Educators Convention. She has also presented at many other conferences. Louise lives and works in New York City.

At an early age Susan Milligan learned the importance of play from her toy-designer father and the value of stories from her children's-librarian mother. Ms. Milligan received a bachelor's degree in English Education from Fairleigh Dickinson University and her MA degree in Drama at New York University. There she studied with Richard Schechner, famous for his ground-breaking work in environmental theater, from whom she learned how to approach drama viscerally as music, as play. She has directed numerous plays and improvisational groups working with children from pre-school through high school. After raising her own two children, Ms. Milligan returned to school to pursue her passion for teaching young children at Teachers College receiving an MA in Early Childhood Education. She is the head teacher for 4 and 5 year olds at the Medical Center Nursery School, an affiliate of Columbia University. She has a particular interest in storytelling and uses techniques pioneered by Vivian Gussen Paley with whom she has studied. Ms. Milligan is also a member of the Bank Street Writer's Group.

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  • I was involved in an NEH Jazz Institute this summer and found your CD, It has i
    author: Judith K. Nador

    This CD will be perfect for me to use as a starting point for relating Jazz and Literature. I just completed an NEH Jazz Institute at Washington University in St.Louis, MO and we did research for a bibliography to be circulated throughout educational circles. The rhythms, the storytelling, and the jazzy music made this CD perfect as an addition to the list. I also intend to share this with my family and friends and their babies. It is awesome. Judi

  • I think it's humorous and clever.
    author: Alexander Strong

    I like the idea of taking fairy tales and putting them to music. I also think it's funny that the goats dance, the pigs eat chocolate pudding, and that Goldilocks just barges into the bears' house without anyone saying, "come in!" Overall, a great CD.

  • Rhythm and Reading
    author: Jane Greyson

    The jazzy rhythms prepare little ones for reading and patterning in general. The revised stories teach conflict resolution. Children can listen, get up and dance, and sing along to the bee-bopping songs. What fun! Thanks Susan, Louise, and Rick.

  • My grandson loves it!
    author: Amanda Barnes

    This CD has all the things my almost three-year-old grandson loves - jazz to dance to, familiar stories, and funny details. Thanks for bringing joy to at least one little boy.

  • Can't Stop Boppin'
    author: Joey Pernice

    I love this CD because it makes Fairy Tales Jazzy and oooooohhhhh it's just that good!!!!!!!!!!

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