KIDS FEST | JULY 31, Noon-4:30pm
As part of our efforts to raise money for playground development at Semcac Head Start, we will be hosting a portion of the festival at the Lake Park Bandshell, catering specifically to children and families. This event is FREE for everyone (with a suggested donation). There will be live music and entertainment as well as hands-on activities for children.
Semcac Head Start is a free preschool for eligible families in Winona county. Currently the center has trikes for the children, but no place for the children to ride them. Along with the obvious health benefits from learning and loving how to ride a bike at a young age, giving young children the opportunity to develop their large motor abilities is critical for their overall development. We want to provide the preschoolers at Head Start with that opportunity this year and for years to come.
Architect Dave Weinmann’s plan for the Head Start trike path.
If you haveany questions or are interested in participating at the Mid West Music Fest children and family venue, please call Nicole at (507) 456-8528 or email at nicole.k@midwestmusicfest.org
Aerial photo of Head Start, with potential bike path highlighted in blue.
MUSIC LINE-UP
Amanda Grace — 12:30pm-1:15pm
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Amanda Hardy is a local Winonan raising a family and pursuing her love of music. She is releasing a children’s CD titles “Trains, Cars, & A Trip To Mars”. For every CD sold $1 will be given to Hands of Hope, an organization her sister helped start in Goodhue, MN after losing her son Bryce to a long battle with cancer. Hands of Hope is committed to carrying out his legacy of compassion by giving monetary funds to families who have children with cancer or other life-altering illnesses.
If you want to know more about Amanda Grace or Hands of Hope, you can contact her via email at amandagrace2010@live.com
The Winona One-Time Stationary Marching Band — 1:30pm-2:15pm
The Winona One-Time Stationary Marching Band is a loud (but not too loud) and fun band of college-aged musicians from Winona and other cities, who all met while attending Winona State University. We will be playing a wide variety of music… you might hear rock songs, children’s music, Dixieland or Klezmer or jazz, marches and polkas and funk. Our music set will expose children to a wide variety of musical styles, as well as different types of musical instruments during our instrument show-and-tell. And those of you who joined us for the earlier instrument making workshop will be invited on stage to play with the band towards the end of our set, before we show off your new homemade instruments with a mini-parade around the park. The Winona One-Time Stationary Marching Band includes Becca Michaelson [St. Michael, MN] on flute; Kelly Mason [Rochester, MN], Matt Saxman [Rochester] and Jessica Kruckow [Caledonia, MN] on trumpet; Katie Kruger [Rochester] on saxophone and clarinet; Eric Renz [St. James, MN], Heidi Miller [Caledonia] and Jase Ginkel [Eden Prairie, MN] on trombone; Frank Merchlewitz [Winona] on keyboards; Justin Smith [Coon Rapids, MN] on tuba; and Jaime Pelaez [Manta, Ecuador] and Christ Woznicki [Rothschild, WI] on drums and percussion. All that’s missing is YOU and your homemade instrument!
Ross Sutter– 2:30pm – 3:15pm
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Ross Sutter has built his reputation with fresh interpretations of Irish, Scottish, Scandinavian and Northern European songs, and with his unique repertoire of children’s music. Ross has toured Europe several times, most recently in the fall of 2006. He has performed on radio, television and at festivals all over the Midwest and works regularly in schools teaching the songs and folk dances that he has collected over the years. He plays an impressive array of instruments–guitar, bodhran, button accordion, dulcimer, bones–but is best known for his singular baritone voice.
Adam August and Edward Lagace — 3:30pm – 4:15pm
Kids Love Rhythm
KID LOVE TO DANCE!
Bring the kids on down to the Kids Fest at Lake Park to beat on some drums or shake some rattles we will create music with them
Adam is known for his abilities to create music with nearly any item found, and if there is nothing there to pick up he will tantalise us with a bit of human Beatboxing
Ed is known for his improvisational flute music. Complimented with songs about living in nature, from growing up with the world, to settling down in a river town. We will take your kids on a musical journey.
ACTIVITIES
Build Your Own Musical Instruments — 12:00pm-1:00pm
Come join members of the Winona One-Time Stationary Marching Band to build your own musical instruments! During this hands-on workshop, we’ll help you construct your own instrument out of common household materials. We’ll provide a lot of the craft supplies, but we need you to bring some materials too! Please bring one or more tissue boxes, paper towel tubes, oatmeal canisters, coffee cans, plastic cups, easter eggs, tongue depressors, pocket combs, or anything else you think could be reused to make an instrument (please bring at least one thing for yourself, and more to share if you can). Some ideas for homemade instruments that we will help you make include a tissue box guitar, drums, shakers, tambourines, chimes, a “horn” or comb buzzer, a wooden harmonica, or a didgeridoo. After this workshop, join us for our musical set from 1:00pm-2:00pm, where we will invite those interested to join us on stage to make live music, and show off your new instruments in a mini-parade around the park. Plus, you can (and should) take your instruments home and keep making music.
Singing Games with Ross Sutter — 12:30pm-1:30pm
Ross will teach a workshop involving singing games with kids and families. Those who participate in the workshop will be given an opportunity to perform on stage with Ross during his performance. Ross’s own heritage is Swedish, and he has a wide repertoire of songs, dances and tunes collected from relatives and musicians both in the United States and Sweden. He has become a popular specialist at leading the songs and games for a traditional Swedish midsommar festival, and he also loves to sing old American traditional and popular songs.
Inspire: Gyotaku – Learn Fish Printing — 2:00pm-4:00pm
The Winona Arts Center is offering children’s workshops for 2010 and 2011.
The first workshop, “Inspire: Gyotaku – Learn Fish Printing”, will be held
during the Kids Fest at the Mid West Music Fest, on July 31, from 2:00 pm -
4:00 pm at the Lake Park (near the bandshell). Led by Emerald Hulsing, a
recent Saint Mary’s art graduate, the children will learn the basics of
block printing using rubber fish. Emerald has led children’s workshops at
Winona’s annual Art-in-the-Park festival in 2008 and 2009.
Traditionally done using real fish – dead ones – Gyotaku is a traditional
form of Japanese fish printing, dating from the mid 1800s. Originally used
by fishermen to record their catches, Gyotaku is now practiced as an art
form, and is very popular among young children both in Japan and Western
countries. Inspire: Gyotaku – Learn Fish Printing is open to children of all ages, with
no pre-registration required.
Turtle Talk — 2:00pm
Park Ranger Ed from the US Fish and Wildlife Service will bring live Turtles to the Kids Fest on July, 31. He will share turtle story’s, and answer your questions about their lives in the river refuge, or what is bothering them these days? So come on down to the park to visit the turtles. Mmmmmm,.. Can turtles really talk? OH! Don”t forget to bring your parents along.
Sponsored by:
Early Childhood Family Education of Winona
