Curriculum-Aligned K-12 School Assembly Shows
Engage Attention
Prompt Questions
Uplift and Inspire
Science - STEAM
Upcycling: Making Musical Instruments
Out of Junk From Around the World
Using the STEM engineering model as a guide, Curtis performs on a variety of instruments made of “up-cycled” materials.
Students discuss responsible green practices and how they can use discarded items to create musical instruments.
This assembly program touches on many curriculum connections from science, social studies and history.
It inspires students to be flexible and creative when thinking about how people throughout history have made their own instruments to express their feelings.
Reasons to book this show:
1. Students are engaged in learning from the first minute from the unusual instruments.
2. Students learn how a creative person can use any material to make music.
3. Students learn about other cultures and how they created instruments out of what they had. It is a lesson in resilience and multicultural appreciation.
4. Programs differentiated for K-2 and 3-8 curriculum content if booked for back to back shows.
Playing a water bottle bass drum, a paint can snare, and homemade guitars made of gas cans and boxes, this show is perfect for Ecology themed assemblies.
What people are saying:
“We all enjoyed your performance! Everyone keeps talking about what a great show you put on, your talent, enthusiasm and genuine engagement with our students really came through!”
Thanks for making our Earth Day celebration so memorable.
Fondly, The Harbour School, MD
2nd Grade Student Rose Hill Elementary, VA
Language Arts and Social Studies Curriculum- Aligned Show
A musical Journey from Bones and Gourds to the Electric Guitar: Human history through multi-cultural instruments.
Multi-instrumentalist Curtis Blues performs with fascinating instruments from Africa and North and South America to demonstrate multicultural musical history changed music all over the world.
The performance traces musical history from African lutes through gourd banjos, brought over on slave ships, to the modern guitar styles of the blues and rap beats today.
This assembly program touches on many curriculum connections as well as celebrating the lives of specific African-Americans who changed musical history.
Reasons to book this show:
1. Students are engaged in learning from the first minute and stay engaged by lively music and questions about songwriting.
2. Students learn how metaphorical language allows us to express complex feelings and ideas in simple images.
3. Students learn about other cultures and people from different time periods who share their modern concerns.
4. Programs differentiated for K-2 and 3-8 curriculum content if booked for back to back shows.
Playing instruments from African gourd instruments through the electric guitar while playing bass and snare drums with his feet makes American music history come alive.
What people are saying:
6th Grader, Baltimore, MD.
He is a wonderful performer, dynamic, and so inclusive of the audience, that even students who started off unimpressed, were clapping and keeping the beat by the end of the show!!!
This was a beautiful and great performance - BRAVO! "
Principle
George Washington Academy
Performance Focused Show
for Parent's Day etc.
Need some great American roots music to serve as a backdrop for a special event at your school?
My shows appeal to all ages and I will perform traditional material that everyone will love.
Playing as a one-man-band with drums guitar and harmonica fills the room without interfering with conversation.
Full band sound at the price of a solo performer.
2010 Solo Artist Blues Artist of the Year
DC Blues Society
