CURRICULUM GUIDE

  The Teacher's Guide for PASSING THE MUSIC DOWN is now available on my website.  You'll find it here . [scroll down through quotes from reviews to the link for the Guide.] It is aligned with the Virginia Standards of Learning.  A huge thank you goes out to Natalie Lorenzi, teacher and writer extraordinaire who prepared it.  (Truly.  She's amazing!) There are activities for students ranging in age from as young as 5 to 12 or older.  Additionally, the activities cover a broad range of topics from reading comprehension to writing skills to musical history to actually making music yourself!  Natalie has provided links to audio and video materials on-line, including links to the documentary about the Appalachian String Band Festival at Clifftop, West Virginia.  The Clifftop documentary includes footage of Jake Krack playing his fiddle and talking about the old-time fiddle players who shared their tunes and traditions with him.  And, by the way, to see Jake playing at Clifftop with the Bing Brothers in 2010, look here.