Appalachian State University

Box Office:  800-841-2787 (ARTS)

Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts

Educator Workshop: Billy Jonas “Make Music From Anything”

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We’re sorry, but this workshop is full and is no longer accepting registrations.

Join us online “live” via Zoom with Billy Jonas for an exciting workshop where you will discover that everyone is a musician, and that music can be made “Anywhere, Anytime, with Anyone, and Anything!”

You will create original instruments and musical sculptures from recyclable and found objects; then learn and practice easy and fun songs and exercises for using your creations as educational tools in the classroom.

A materials list will be sent to registrants, please don’t hesitate to reach out for assistance gathering materials.

There is no cost, but registration is required.

Check out the related APPlause! series performance, Billy Jonas: Who’s Gonna Make Our Music?!.

LOCATION: Live, interactive Zoom event; registration is required
DATE/TIME: Oct. 22 at 4pm
MORE INFO: chenauskyc@appstate.edu

Educator Workshop Series

Let the Educator Series inspire and rekindle your love of learning with and through the arts. This year, we are focused on providing high-quality arts education experiences for K-12 audiences at no cost. We add to that quality professional development experiences for educators that will enliven a passion for learning and spark an element of excitement and fun for all educators.

Please be in touch with Christy Chenausky (chenauskyc@appstate.edu) ahead of any educator series event to request a certificate of completion.

We’re sorry, but this workshop is full and is no longer accepting registrations.

Event is FREE, but registration is required.

REGISTER FOR EVENT HERE

Thanks to the generous support of sponsors, The Schaefer Center Presents is able to offer the fall series free of charge. To help us continue our mission of meeting the needs of our university students, faculty/staff, and the community at large during this time when high-quality arts programming is more critical and essential than ever, please consider making a gift of any amount.

GIVE NOW
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Every season, affordable music, dance, film, and theatre events are offered to students and their teachers from K-12 classrooms across the region. Students experience everything from high-energy acrobatics and Appalachian music to international dance and literary classics brought to life through theatrical productions. LEARN MORE >>

Contact

For more information about APPlause!...

Christy Chenausky
Director of Arts Education and Outreach
828-262-6084 ext. 109
chenauskyc@appstate.edu

APPlause! Sponsors

The APPlause! 2023-24 season has been generously supported by a grant from the
JAMES G. HANES MEMORIAL FUND
and
individual support from
SUE AND STEVE CHASE
and
sustaining support provided by the
CHRISTINE PETTI OPPORTUNITY FUND

.

Billy Jonas: Who’s Gonna Make Our Music?!

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An APPlause! Series favorite, Billy Jonas believes that creating a bright future starts with kids. Using homemade and re-cyclable “re-percussion” instruments, songs that celebrate community, as well as personal and planetary ecology, his think-outside-the-box educational performances occur at schools, colleges, universities and libraries around the country. Billy’s goal is to plant musical seeds that will help grow creative, open-minded, engaged and open-hearted citizens of the world.

Some ask: “What is the sound of one hand clapping?” Billy Jonas asks: “What is the sound of 600 sets of keys jingling on the downbeat?, and how shall we inspire the audience to do it?” For 25 years, Billy Jonas, performer, singer-songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, and educator, has perfected the art of the neo-tribal hootenanny around the globe — original songs performed with a generous dose of audience participation. Jonas performs solo or with his band, using voice, guitar, and ‘industrial re-percussion’ — homemade creations of buckets and barrels, keys and cans, bells and body percussion. Each concert is a soul-spelunking, heart healing, joy-filled journey of spirited music that is accessible to anyone and everyone, regardless of age or cultural background.

Explore the related Educator Workshop, Billy Jonas: Make Music from Anything (We’re sorry, but the workshop is full and is no longer accepting reservations).

RECOMMENDED FOR:  PK-5th Grades
CURRICULUM CONNECTIONS: Language Development, Music, Science and Ecology
STUDY GUIDE: Click HERE for printable pdf
LOCATION: Online event; a private link will be sent to registrants just prior to event
DATE/TIME: available to view anytime between Oct. 11-25
APPROXIMATE RUN TIME: 45 minutes
FOR MORE INFORMATION: contact the Box Office at
theschaefercenter@appstate.edu / 800-841-2787 or 828-262-4046

Event is FREE, but registration is required.

REGISTER FOR EVENT HERE

Thanks to the generous support of sponsors, The Schaefer Center Presents is able to offer the fall series free of charge. To help us continue our mission of meeting the needs of our university students, faculty/staff, and the community at large during this time when high-quality arts programming is more critical and essential than ever, please consider making a gift of any amount.

GIVE NOW
Billy Jonas drum and horn

ABOUT BILLY JONAS

 

BILLY JONAS co-founded Oberlin’s Big Bang Theory in the ‘80s, went on in the ‘90s to funky folk fame and fortune with The Billys. He now tours both solo and with The Billy Jonas Band — hummin’ and strummin’ and bangin’ and sangin’ across North America, promulgating homemade “industrial re-percussion,” genre-bending “funky family folk,” and the participatory joy of “everybody’s in the band.”

REVIEWS

 

“…witty, smart, raw.” —The New York Times

”…irresistible… my face hurts from smiling.” —Alison Krauss

“…the arch-elf of American music…” —Charleston Gazette

“Billy Jonas is one of the most original, moving and simultaneously hilarious performers I’ve ever seen. Each song enters an unexpected world of its own, creates a film, a state of being, an unexpected, seemingly extemporaneous story; your story and mine, seen through the brilliant lens of Billy’s muse and loving heart.” —Peter Yarrow (of Peter, Paul and Mary)

“…lush talent … musically rich … hilarious … lovely … a near perfect blend of great music and playfully educational messages.” —Parent’s Choice

“Billy Jonas is a multi-layered, percussion-driven, tribal rhythm, urban harmony and folk music maestro.” —Ear Candy

“He engages the audience with a wild assortment of rhythm and word play that usually leaves them both entertained, and a little more in touch with their spiritual selves. He teaches, through experience, that music is everywhere.” —Sing Out! Magazine

“While others … have tried to distinguish themselves with fashion or gimmicks, Billy Jonas uses genuine originality and a style that evolved naturally from his experience, to create memorable music that is both intellectually fascinating and frequently danceable, all the while avoiding the cliches.” —George Graham (public radio host/music reviewer)

“… first class … compelling, humorous, beautiful and brilliant! … the highlight of our season.” —Ron Clearfield, Conductor, Blue Ridge Orchestra

APPlause! logo

About     Events    Registration     Educator Resources     FAQs

APPlause! logo

Every season, affordable music, dance, film, and theatre events are offered to students and their teachers from K-12 classrooms across the region. Students experience everything from high-energy acrobatics and Appalachian music to international dance and literary classics brought to life through theatrical productions. LEARN MORE >>

Contact

For more information about APPlause!...

Christy Chenausky
Director of Arts Education and Outreach
828-262-6084 ext. 109
chenauskyc@appstate.edu

APPlause! Sponsors

The APPlause! 2023-24 season has been generously supported by a grant from the
JAMES G. HANES MEMORIAL FUND
and
individual support from
SUE AND STEVE CHASE
and
sustaining support provided by the
CHRISTINE PETTI OPPORTUNITY FUND

.