KidsAcoustic with Hideki Yamaya
Tickets: $14 advance, $16 at the door for each child or adult. Infants (not yet walking) are welcome for free. Space is limited, so please buy ahead.
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Seattle Historical Arts for Kids is proud to present our second season of family concerts at Empty Sea Studios, offering a truly unique, up-close musical experience.
The KidsAcoustic series offers real music for grownups, enchanting tunes for kids, and a chance for all the children to try the instruments afterwards! For each concert, teacher and early string performer Shulamit Kleinerman joins forces with a duo partner from a folk or early music tradition.
Shulamit Kleine
rman first added family house concerts to her offerings for children in 2007, and the audience quickly outgrew her teaching studio. The new space at Empty Sea is still welcoming, relaxed, and intimate enough for kids to scootch right upto the musicians’ feet… but now there’s also room to dance! Shula is passionate about bringing the arts of earlier ages alive for kids. From Mozart operas to baroque minuets to Shakespeare skits to medieval songs, her historical arts workshops connect kids with the sparkle of the past. More information about her performances and classes for kids and adults can be found at shulamitk.net.
KidsAcoustic: A Medieval Christmas
Tickets: $14 advance, $16 at the door for each child or adult. Infants (not yet walking) are welcome for free. Space is limited, so please buy ahead.
Click here to purchase advance tickets.
Seattle Historical Arts for Kids is proud to present our second season of family concerts at Empty Sea Studios, offering a truly unique, up-close musical experience.
The KidsAcoustic series offers real music for grownups, enchanting tunes for kids, and a chance for all the children to try the instruments afterwards! For each concert, teacher and early string performer Shulamit Kleinerman joins forces with a duo partner from a folk or early music tradition.
Noel as it’s meant to be sung! This favorite program from last season returns. For songs of Yule and Christmas, Shula is joined by her frequent collaborator Jacob Breedlove, multi-instrumentalist, craftsman, storyteller, and beloved co-teacher of many of Shula’s historical arts classes. He’s making a new fiddle just for this show! Songs in Middle English are accompanied by the ever-popular hurdy-gurdy and by medieval fiddles large and small — and we’ll have bells on, literally.
Shulamit Kleinerman first added family house concerts to her offerings for children in 2007, and the audience quickly outgrew her teaching studio. The new space at Empty Sea is still welcoming, relaxed, and intimate enough for kids to scootch right upto the musicians’ feet… but now there’s also room to dance! Shula is passionate about bringing the arts of earlier ages alive for kids. From Mozart operas to baroque minuets to Shakespeare skits to medieval songs, her historical arts workshops connect kids with the sparkle of the past. More information about her performances and classes for kids and adults can be found at shulamitk.net.
KidsAcoustic: Family Sing Through The Ages w/ Emily Nelson
Tickets: $9.99 for each child or adult. Infants (not yet walking) are welcome for free. Space is limited, so please buy ahead.
Click here to purchase advance tickets.
Some kinds of music are inherently age-inclusive. KidsAcoustic presents real music that parents can enjoy for its own sake, while the lively tunes and wonderful instruments draw kids in naturally.
For each concert, teacher and early string performer Shulamit Kleinerman joins forces with a duo partner from a folk or early music tradition. A personable forty-five minute program is followed by a hands-on opportunity for all the kids to try out our menagerie of instruments.
How better to wrap up the KidsAcoustic year than with a chance for everyone to sing? Attenders earlier in the season may have already enjoyed some singalong numbers. For the final concert, soprano Emily Nelson will share her mesmerizing soprano voice in a danceable set of songs from medieval troubadours, renaissance songbooks, and living folk traditions, interspersed with rounds, refrains, and harmonies for everyone. Shula brings her violin, vielle, and viola da gamba for everyone to hear and have the opportunity to try. Whether you’re an avid singer or a timid one, and whether your kids are old enough to sing or not, please come share the music with us!
Shulamit Kleinerman first added family house concerts to her offerings for children in 2007, and the audience quickly outgrew her teaching studio. The new space at Empty Sea is still welcoming, relaxed, and intimate enough for kids to scootch right upto the musicians’ feet… but now there’s also room to dance! Shula is passionate about bringing the arts of earlier ages alive for kids. From Mozart operas to baroque minuets to Shakespeare skits to medieval songs, her historical arts workshops connect kids with the sparkle of the past. More information about her performances and classes for kids and adults can be found at shulamitk.net.
Dance Tunes, Birdsong, and a Krummhorn with Charles Coldwell
Tickets: $9.99 for each child or adult. Infants (not yet walking) are welcome for free. Space is limited, so please buy ahead.
Click here to purchase tickets.
Some kinds of music are inherently age-inclusive. KidsAcoustic presents real music that parents can enjoy for its own sake, while the lively tunes and wonderful instruments draw kids in naturally.
For each concert, teacher and early string performer Shulamit Kleinerman joins forces with a duo partner from a folk or early music tradition. A personable forty-five minute program is followed by a hands-on opportunity for all the kids to try out our menagerie of instruments.
Joining Shula this month is Charles Coldwell, who has been in demand as a dance accompanist in many genres for many years on many instruments! He brings his recorders large and small, flutes, pipe and tabor, crumhorn and bagpipe. We’ll play duos of the medieval, renaissance, and baroque eras, our own sparkly arrangements of English country dances, and tunes from the 1717 Bird Fancyer’s Delight – meant to be taught to birds!
Shulamit Kleinerman first added family house concerts to her offerings for children in 2007, and the audience quickly outgrew her teaching studio. The new space at Empty Sea is still welcoming, relaxed, and intimate enough for kids to scootch right upto the musicians’ feet… but now there’s also room to dance! Shula is passionate about bringing the arts of earlier ages alive for kids. From Mozart operas to baroque minuets to Shakespeare skits to medieval songs, her historical arts workshops connect kids with the sparkle of the past. More information about her performances and classes for kids and adults can be found at shulamitk.net.
KidsAcoustic: Baroque Dance w/ Jamia Hansen-Murray
Tickets: $9.99 for each child or adult. Infants (not yet walking) are welcome for free. Space is limited, so please buy ahead.
Sorry, this show has sold out!
Some kinds of music are inherently age-inclusive. KidsAcoustic presents real music that parents can enjoy for its own sake, while the lively tunes and wonderful instruments draw kids in naturally.
For each concert, teacher and early string performer Shulamit Kleinerman joins forces with a duo partner from a folk or early music tradition. A personable forty-five minute program is followed by a hands-on opportunity for all the kids to try out our menagerie of instruments.
Joining Shula this month is not a duo musician but a dancer! Jamia Hansen-Murray turns Empty Sea into an eighteenth century ballroom, performing sprightly dances in a sumptuous period costume she made herself. Jamia is a regular performer with Seattle Early Dance, a seamstress to be reckoned with, and a woman of astonishing energy and good cheer. What is a gavotte, a minuet, or a bourrée anyway? Young music students will love finding out, and everyone (including the littlest ones) will be captivated by the fancy footwork and furbelows. Try on some baroque hats and costumes for boys and girls at the end. (Hint: Bring your camera!)
We’ll have mostly floor seating for this show, to clear some room for Jamia.
Shulamit Kleinerman first added family house concerts to her offerings for children in 2007, and the audience quickly outgrew her teaching studio. The new space at Empty Sea is still welcoming, relaxed, and intimate enough for kids to scootch right upto the musicians’ feet… but now there’s also room to dance! Shula is passionate about bringing the arts of earlier ages alive for kids. From Mozart operas to baroque minuets to Shakespeare skits to medieval songs, her historical arts workshops connect kids with the sparkle of the past. More information about her performances and classes for kids and adults can be found at shulamitk.net.
KidsAcoustic: Cinnamon Bird w/ Jane Hall
This show is sold out – but tickets are still available for Cinnamon Bird’s ‘grown-up show’ at 3.00 PM on the same day!
Some kinds of music are inherently age-inclusive. KidsAcoustic presents real music that parents can enjoy for its own sake, while the lively tunes and wonderful instruments draw kids in naturally.
For each concert, teacher and early string performer Shulamit Kleinerman joins forces with a duo partner from a folk or early music tradition. A personable forty-five minute program is followed by a hands-on opportunity for all the kids to try out our menagerie of instruments.
Ruthie Dornfeld and Shula are the duo Cinnamon Bird, sharing adventurous double fiddling of the Middle Ages and various folk traditions. Join us as we journey through 800 years of music — from medieval melodies on matched vielles to traditional tunes from France, England, Appalachia, and Scandinavia on baroque and modern violins. Ruthie is hailed for her “dazzling array of styles” and improvisational flair. Arabic percussionist Jane Hall joins in to help create the sound of a time when some of the best things in Europe came from further east — like medieval fiddles, and cinnamon. Come hear the legend of the bird that gives our duo its name.
Shulamit Kleinerman first added family house concerts to her offerings for children in 2007, and the audience quickly outgrew her teaching studio. The new space at Empty Sea is still welcoming, relaxed, and intimate enough for kids to scootch right upto the musicians’ feet… but now there’s also room to dance! Shula is passionate about bringing the arts of earlier ages alive for kids. From Mozart operas to baroque minuets to Shakespeare skits to medieval songs, her historical arts workshops connect kids with the sparkle of the past. More information about her performances and classes for kids and adults can be found at shulamitk.net.
KidsAcoustic: Shulamit Kleinerman & Bill McJohn
Tickets: $9.00 for each child or adult. Babes in arms (not yet walking) are welcome for free. Space is limited, so please buy ahead.
To keep from crowding the venue, we offer two separate seatings.
11.00 AM: All kids welcome up to age 11. Infants (not yet walking) are welcome for free.
1.00 PM: For kids aged 5-12. Younger siblings are welcome to come too; we just want to make sure that the big kids have a chance to engage with this music in a comfortable peer group!
Click here to purchase tickets to either seating.
Some kinds of music are inherently age-inclusive. KidsAcoustic presents real music that parents can enjoy for its own sake, while the lively tunes and wonderful instruments draw kids in naturally.
For each concert, teacher and early string performer Shulamit Kleinerman joins forces with a duo partner from a folk or early music tradition. A personable forty-five minute program is followed by a hands-on opportunity for all the kids to try out our menagerie of instruments.
For the season’s second program, Shula invites Bill McJohn to share his harp and voice on a collection of musical stories that stand the test of seven or eight centuries. A performer of everything from chant to baroque continuo, Bill sings about the changing of the seasons, a man who eats too much, and a rustic dance party gone comically wrong. Shula plays medieval fiddle and percussion. Tap your toes to some lively instrumental dances and set your imagination alight. Learn what itinerant medieval musicians thought about when autumn came! If you’ve never heard a buzzing medieval bray harp, come check it out here.
Shulamit Kleinerman first added family house concerts to her offerings for children in 2007, and the audience quickly outgrew her teaching studio. The new space at Empty Sea is still welcoming, relaxed, and intimate enough for kids to scootch right upto the musicians’ feet… but now there’s also room to dance! Shula is passionate about bringing the arts of earlier ages alive for kids. From Mozart operas to baroque minuets to Shakespeare skits to medieval songs, her historical arts workshops connect kids with the sparkle of the past. More information about her performances and classes for kids and adults can be found at shulamitk.net.
