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Catch the Reading Bug!
Whether you have six legs or only two you are invited to join the singing swarm at the Buggity Bop! Sarah and Thom bring the hive alive with their songs and stories starring bees, fleas, flies and all things wiggly!
What's the buzz on Sarah and Thom? These two are one of the most engaging and creative performing teams around! Come out of your cocoons and catch the singing bug!
5-year old, Boalsburg, PA
(Artwork by James Mouser)
Sarah and Thom have become mainstays of the mid-states storytelling scene, and are just beginning to break into the larger area. Their unique dual storytelling style, punctuated by hilarious original children's songs and fun fingerplay and participation stories and songs are just the thing for the youngest audiences. One little boy in Pennsylvania, spotting them on the street after seeing their show turned to his sister and said, "Look, there's those crazy people again!" Surprisingly silly and wonderfully engaging, they are sure to be remembered by the kids they perform for, as well as their parents and teachers.
-by a
young listener, Rock Bridge ElementarySarah Howard has been the children's librarian at the Columbia Public Library for over seventeen years, and is a founder of MOST (Mid-Missouri Organization of Storytelling). She has worked in libraries for almost 20 years. Sarah plays mandolin and autoharp, served on the 2004 Newbery committee, teaches through the University of Missouri, and presents workshops on storytelling and programming to librarians, teachers and parenting organizations.
Thom Howard has a Bachelor of Music degree and has performed guitar music for twenty years, both solo and in groups of all kinds. He plays ragtime, fingerstyle, classical, Spanish, Latin American music, and also as an accompanist to singers and other musicians. He also teaches stringed instruments at Central Methodist University and is working on his first musical for children's theater. Thom's first solo guitar CD "Sometimes a Guitar is Just a Guitar" was released in 2002.
: Performance ScheduleCLICK HERE to view our Schedule (combined with Sarah's workshop and seminar schedule)
Sarah and Thom : Selected Past Performances
MO-Tell Storytelling Conference,
Children's concert, Goldenrod
Showboat,
St. Louis, MO
Blue Ridge Elementary School,
Columbia, MO (repeat appearances)
Kansas City Storytelling
Celebration,
Kansas City, MO (returning April, 2005)
Springfield Public Library System,
Springfield, MO & suburbs (multiple venues)
Christmas in July festival,
Boalsburg, PA
Kansas
State Fiddling & Picking Championships,
Lawrence KS (repeat appearances)
Stephens College Elementary
School, Columbia, MO
Les Bourgeois Winery Harvest and
Crush
Festival, Rocheport, MO
Boone County Heritage Festival,
Columbia, MO (repeat appearances)
Graham
Cave State Park, MO
Runge Nature Center,
Jefferson City, MO (repeat appearances)
Pepper &
Friends, live TV show, NBC 8,
Columbia,
MO (repeat appearances)
Columbia Public Library,
Columbia, MO (repeat appearances)
Shepard
Blvd. Elementary, Columbia, MO (day residency)
PPP
Family
festival
2003, Tan-Tar-A hotel complex, Lake of the Ozarks, MO
AEYC Week of
the
Young Child celebration, McIntire Elementary, Fulton, MO
AEYC Week of the
Young
Child celebration, New Bloomfield, MO (repeat appearances)
River And Prairie Storyweavers
meeting, (workshop presenters)
Kansas City, MO
R.A.P.S. "Chicken Festival", (workshop
presenters) Warrenton, MO
