Spoons Playing Workshop: Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced
by Jerry and Bev PraverNo prior experience required. We will go from absolute beginner to advanced spoon playing. Spoons will be provided.
Bev and Jerry:
have been playing folk music since 1962. have been singing in schools throughout the southwest since 1981. have had their work published in leading periodicals including "Music Educators Journal," "Sing Out!", "The Folknik," "Folk Music in the Classroom," and "Early Childhood Music." have published a book of their own compositions entitled "Signs of the Times." have recorded three albums: "Old Songs for the Young at Heart," "Are We There Yet?", and "Going Places." play fifteen instruments including acoustic guitar, banjo, Autoharp, Appalachian dulcimer, harmonica, spoons, limberjacks, kazoo, tin whistle, jaw harp, kalimba, and musical saw. have presented more than 300 programs at the National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center near Baker City, Oregon. have performed at more than 1400 public, private, and parochial schools throughout California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. have presented nearly 10,000 assemblies, classroom, and hands-on programs. have taught more than 500,000 children to play Autoharps, spoons, and limberjacks. have taught an Elderhostel program entitled "American History and the Music of the People Who Lived It." Their web page is www.bevjerry.com
