Music Club with Tropic of Cancer - July 12th

On July 12th come meet and hear the six musicians that are Tropic of Cancer.  They have a sound and style derived from a variety of musical influences, combining odd time signature, angular rhythms with Jazz, Reggae, Samba and African rhythms.  They are called Tropic of Cancer since much of their inspiration came from the warm latitudes of Jamaica, West Africa, India, the Middle East and Latin America.  Come learn about the band’s "New World Lounge” sound of drums, percussion, vibraphone, saxophone, guitar, and fretless bass.  They’ll also be bringing instruments for the kids to use to play along! 

Music Club is a program series geared towards ages 8-12, although ages 6-14 are more than welcome to come. The program is held in the Main Library Auditorium the second and fourth Tuesday of every month at 4pm. Call 630-2417 for more information. 

Kid's Choice 2011

Voting for the Kid's Choice Award 2011 has begun!

Wondering what to read this summer? Well, why not try one of the nominees for the Kid's Choice Award?

There are 9 books to choose from and we'd love to know your pick!

Music Club with Tony Steve! June 28th!

Our next Music Club is June 28^th in the Main Library Auditorium and it starts at 4pm. Remember the class is geared to children ages 8-12, but we welcome children ages 6-14.

Our very special guest for this program is Tony Steve! He'll be using our big movie screen to show some silent film shorts as he produces a live soundtrack with percussion instruments. He'll be talking to the children about different percussion instruments, and how they create different moods in cinema.

Tony Steve is a professor of percussion and composition at Jacksonville University. He has performed with the Jacksonville Symphony (member 13 years), Israeli Festival Orchestra, Glimmerglass Opera Orchestra, Hartford Symphony, North Eastern Pennsylvania Symphony, Greenwich Symphony, and Bridgeport Symphony as a percussionist.

He has toured with “A Chorus Line” in Europe, appeared in Korea as marimba soloist with the Brooklyn Percussion Ensemble, and performed as percussionist at Madison Square Garden for “A Christmas Carol”. In addition, he has worked with Henry Mancini, Lou Rawls, Sheri Lewis and The Xaiver Cugat Orchestra. Professor Steve has also won numerous ASCAP writers awards and his music is performed in America as well as Europe and Asia.

We're very excited to have such a unique and amazing performer for our next installment of Music Club!

You can listen some of Professor Steve's own compositions here. And here is a .pdf of our flier.

And here's a small sample of some of the film he'll be providing a soundtrack for...

See you June 28th!

Music Club!

Our first Music Club program was amazing.  Von Barlow and his band playing a few songs for the kids and mixed things up with plenty of discussion about what instruments they played and how the instruments worked. He even got all the kids on stage to play his new drum invention the clix sticks.

Check out a video of the band playing at the library here. 

A big thanks to Von Barlow and his band for coming to our debut Music Club program!

Summer Reading

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Summer Reading

Summer Reading has begun at your library! So,

Why not visit the Main library?

For kids 6-12, we have awesome events just for the summer:

Tuesdays @ 11- Special Presenters

6/14- Jacksonville Zoo

6/21- Curious Moon

6/28- TheatreWorks - must 353-3500 call to make reservation

7/5- Didgeridoo Down Under

7/12- Diane Delange- Sign Language Storyteller

7/19- Ronald McDonald

7/26- Ron Anglin- Juggler

8/2- Kate Byrnes- Traditional Storyteller

... and of course we have our full calendar of regularly scheduled programs; from Storytime to Music Club, Dramarama to Tween thing. Check it out!

June Calendar