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DrumSongStory at Fairfield Country Day School

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On April 5th 2016 I performed my DrumSongStory School Assembly program, “Beyond The Borders: Drums, Songs and Stories Celebrating Multi-Cultural Collaboration” at Fairfield Country Day School in Fairfield CT.

AND THIS JUST IN! They’ve just invited  me back for the Fall of 2016 to present my “Bully Proof Kid” assembly.  kewl!

– Mark Shepard, Songwriter, Storyteller, Drummer, “multi-disciplinary performance artist”

Part 1: Overtone Singing

Part 2: Pre-framing for the wide age span (K-9)

Part 3: Introducing the drums

Part 4: An old African folktale turned into a “new” Irish story/song

Part 5: We invite audience participation and “rehearse” the parts.

Part 6: Monkey and Leopard an African “Trickster” Folktale (heavily influenced by American culture and humor)

Part 7: The Silkie – Irish/Celtic Folktale turned into a story song

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About Mark Shepard

Mark is a multi-disciplinary performing and teaching artist who uses drums, songs and stories to interactively engage, entertain and educate audiences of all ages in performance, keynote and staff development programs. In 2014 his song, “Together We Can Change The World” was honored with a Posi Award and is the theme song of the Girl Scouts of the Philippines.For Mark's full bio click the link.