Sum-Sum-Summertime

                Sum-Sum-Summertime Show

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A rousing rendition of the song "Sum Sum Summertime" sets the stage for an action-packed show as the audience helps choose summer-fun activities. Four kids are picked to speak their parts during the song, "Choices". A car driver "steers" us to Camp Granada to the tune of "Car Car" where two more kids help with the humorous song "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah". Four more kids are picked to help sing the echo parts in "The Bear Song" and a chosen chef child serves up "Mama's Soup Surprise". We then form a 12-20 kids band using different percussive instruments to the tune "Playing In The Same Band".
Next we go to the beach and ten kids are picked to help perform the song "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini". A camp counselor is usually picked to be the bikini girl. Returning to our own back yards, we fill our imaginations with participatory songs like: "Read A Book", "Color My Day" (8 kids participate), "Hula Hoop", "Your Mama Don't Dance", "Splish Splash" and "Normal Kids".
Colorful props such as a stage car, tub with scrub brushes, oven, a pot of soup, hula hoops, clipboard, an umbrella, a locker, fake water, and a bikini-girl cut-out are used and at least 30 volunteers get involved in this show.
By incorporating humor, role-playing and song in the performance, We produce an age-appropriate show for children in grades K-6 for groups of 25 to 200 children. I sing and play guitar, harmonica and use prerecorded bass, drums and keyboard sounds on mini disks made in my studio, Rainbow Music, a teaching and recording studio in Glastonbury, CT. I have 29 years of full-time performing experience (19 years with children) and am Founder and Director Emeritus of the Connecticut Songwriters Association. Courtney Latham and Karlea Peterson are available for some shows.