Library Summer Reading Kickoff To Feature Award-Winning Performers

Note: This was provided by the Lynnfield Public Library.

The Lynnfield Library will present Parents’ Choice Award winning performers Davis Bates and Roger Tincknell in a program of stories and songs to help kick-off and celebrate their annual summer reading program.

Entitled Under One Sky: A Multi-Cultural Celebration, the performance will involve the audience, through song and story, in a variety of cultural traditions. Hear how the bear missed the train, how coyote got his howl, and how foam got to be in the ocean, and be prepared to sing, move and dance, especially to the closing song, Woody Guthrie’s This Land is Your Land.

The songs and stories are accompanied by the Aztec rainstick, Inca
flute, Russian balalaika, African drum, as well as guitar, mandolin, and
the North American banjo.  There will even be a short lesson in how to
play the spoons, and a visit from a dancing wooden dog.

Davis Bates and Roger Tincknell have over six decades of combined
experience performing for families, in community settings throughout the
Northeast, and are known both for their warm and participatory performing
style.

Pete Seeger has called Davis "thoughtful, creative, human, and a
fantastic storyteller."  His traditional style of telling is a refreshing
change from video’s and passive televised entertainment, empowering and
encouraging audiences of all ages to join in the fun, and to take the
stories home with them to share with others.  His storytelling cassette,
Family Stories, won a Parents Choice Gold Award, and was recently named on
of the years’ best audio recording by Booklist magazine.  

Roger Tincknell is an accomplished musician, singer and song-writer, whose concerts include a wide variety of guitar styles, as well as banjo, mandolin, bouzouki, harmonica and piano playing.  His repertoire ranges from sensitive love songs ballads to fiddle tunes, country and swing songs, blues, and show stopping yodeling.  Roger also won Parents Choice honor awards for his album of environmental songs, entitled Earth Rhythms, and his most recent release, Carnivalito.

Under One Sky:  A Multi-Cultural Celebration is appropriate to all ages, and will take place at the Lynnfield Public Library on Saturday, June 11, 2011. The Library will be serving a hot dog lunch and registering children for the Summer Reading Program starting at noon. The Under One Sky presentation will begin at 1 p.m. Admission is free.

This program is funded by the Lynnfield Cultural Council, a local agency supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency, and by the Friends of the Lynnfield Library.  For more information call (781) 334-5411.  Be sure not to miss this wonderful family oriented entertainment event!