School Performances

Habib Koite & Bamada
(Grades K-12)
March 8, 2010, 10 am (1 hr.)
Join one of West Africa's best known musicians as he and his group play native Malian and Western instruments. Teachers are encouraged to get the full African culture experience with Habib and the Lost Treasures of the Nile exhibit.
Sponsored by: Jackson Kelly & Capitol Conference Center


Streb: RAW
(Grades 6 -12)
March 12, 2010, 11:30 am (1 hr.)
Streb Extreme Action Dance Company sees dance as a laboratory for testing scientific principles on the body. The outcome is a mixture of slam dancing, exquisite and amazing human flight and a wild action sport which captures kids, older people and the general public’s hearts and minds and bodies. 


Bob Thompson: The History of Jazz
(Grades K-12)
April 28 or 29, 2010, 11 am (1 hr.)
Since 1991 Bob Thompson has been pianist, and regularly featured artist on the internationally-broadcast public radio show, Mountain Stage. Bob makes his home in the Charleston, West Virginia area, where he has pursued a career in music as a performer, composer, arranger, and teacher. Bob will give us a whirlwind tour of the history of jazz, America’s music.