The Community Music & Arts Network

Center for Music & Creative Development

MISS PAM'S JAMS - MUSIC PROGRAMS

Our Mission Since 2001:

1. Develop the provision of live music and promote music education and the appreciation of music in local communities, including the establishment of pilot community music & arts programs.

2. Provide performance and teaching opportunities for musicians and composers to reach a wider audience, to include school children, elderly, hospital, hospice, correctional facility, and community service outreach.

3. Create a research and development network to explore new and appropriate models for community music development and to share advancements in the fields of music therapy and education applications for music. Develop a collaborative line of educational children’s music.

4. Advocate cooperative music initiatives by partnering with agencies that seek the same goals.

 

PROGRAMS:

 

Licensed Music Together® Caregiver/Mixed age

(Birth – Kindergarten) and preschool classes.

 

NOW REGISTERING FOR WINTER & SPRING 10 WEEK SEMESTER!

Pre-registration is required for all classes.

 

Hobart Activity Center, 8 Pine Street, Hobart, NY

Wednesdays, 9:00 am

Saturdays, 10:30 am

 

Foothills Performing Arts Center, 24 Market Street, Oneonta, NY

Wednesdays, 4:30 pm (tentative)

Thursdays, 9:30 am

 

Music Together Mission:

To provide the highest quality music and movement experiences to as many young children as possible and to involve their parents and other adult caregivers, including early childhood professionals.

Basic Principles of the Music Together Philosophy

I. All children are musical.

II. Therefore, all children can achieve basic music competence, which we have defined as the ability to sing in tune and move with accurate rhythm.

III.The participation and modeling of parents and caregivers, regardless of their musical ability, is essential to a child's musical growth.

IV. This growth is best achieved in a playful, developmentally appropriate, non-performance-oriented learning environment that is musically rich yet immediately accessible to the child's-and the adult's!-participation

 

Hobart Activity Center

AFTER SCHOOL JAMS

Interactive Music Groups for Kids, grades K-12

(year long except August 1st - 2nd week of September and some school vacations)

ONGOING REGISTRATION FOR AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM

All participants must be pre-registered—no “drop-offs”

Develop tonal & rhythm competency, instrumental & vocal skills, improvise/jam, compose, write songs, record, create computer based loop compositions, play music games, & more!

Flexible drop-off and pick-up anytime between 3:15 pm & 5:00 pm

Tuesdays - High School Rock Club (grades 9-12)

Thursdays - K-4 Kid Jams (grades K-4)

Fridays - JR Jammers (grades 5-8)

Adults - Are you interested in participating in an adult Jam Band or improvisation workshop? Please let us know!

 

 

SUMMER JAM CAMPS – AGES 8 TO 18

2012 Dates & Venue TBA

Form a band, learn cover tunes, write & record songs, get tips from the pros, make friends who love music as much as you do, and perform!

PRIVATE LESSONS & VOCAL COACHING

ALL AGES & ABILITY LEVELS

Voice, Rock/Theory/Composition/Improvisation Piano, Beginning Traditional Piano, Folk Guitar, Beginning Guitar, Flute (all levels), Bassoon (all levels), songwriting, Music Theory, Improvisation, Ear Training/pitch training, Rhythm training, Musicianship & NYSSMA coaching in all instruments except Tuba/Trombone

Intense Musical Remediation (for those who are “tone deaf” with “two left feet”)

Special Needs Services for Autism, Asbergers, Developmentally Disabled, Emotionally Disabled, Bipolar, ADHD, and gifted/talented.

 

OTHER SERVICES:

Short Run CD Duplication, CD Artwork design, Public Relations/Press Releases, Radio ads, voice-overs, studio session work (vocals, bassoon, flute).

Available for wedding music or special events/art openings as a singer/flutist.

INTERACTIVE BIRTHDAY PARTIES (Ages 1 – 7)

Your location or ours! Call to schedule in advance!

Angel Pam West is also available to perform at festivals and venues for both adult folk-rock/singer-songwriter and children/family events.

Artist in Residencies

ON THE RADIO:

Listen to Miss Pam's Morning Jams, Tuesday mornings from 6 to 8 am, Music for kids of all ages and the young at heart! WIOX 91.3 FM, Roxbury or streaming live at www.wioxradio.org.

WEBSITES, VIDEO, MUSIC DOWNLOADS/SALES:

Home Page: www.myspace.com/pamelawest

Music: www.cdbaby.com/artist/AngelPamWest

Other Music Downloads and YouTube videos: Google “Angel Pam West”

New Children’s Album:

“Unicorn Crossing” by Angel Pam West & Friends

Pamela West-Finkle (“Angel Pam West”) Biography:

Instrumentation:

Vocals (4.5 8va--trained in opera, musical theater, blues, jazz, rock, and gospel), Positive message/social consciousness Lyrics, Ethnic & Traditional Flutes, 6 & 12 String Acoustic Guitar, Bassoon, Piano/Synths, Harmonica, Mandolin, Drums/Percussion.

Originally from Amish country in Ohio, “Angel” Pam West began performing for Heads of State as a teenager, and entered the U.S. Army bands as a symphonic bassoonist, graduating with military honors and a Presidential qualification from the Armed Forces School of Music in 1987.

Education:

At the University of Akron, she double majored in performance and education, studying bassoon, piano, conducting, voice, theory/composition, and creative writing/literature while playing bassoon in several NE Ohio orchestras. She graduated Summa Cum Laude, Gamma Alpha Kappa in 1996 with a B.S. in Education and a teaching certificate from Ashland University. She is currently completing her Masters of Music Education via University of Montana's online and community-based program and is a certified K-12 Music Teacher in New York State and previously held a 7-12 English teaching certification in the state of Ohio. She has received over 50 hours of early childhood music training at the Center for Music and Young Children in Princeton, NJ and is a registered Music Together teacher and early childhood music specialist. In addition, she has attended the Summer Teacher Institute at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio.

Influences:

Pamela, however, was heavily influenced by the classical art rock and psychedelic pop of the late 1960’s and early 1970’s--bands like Led Zeppelin, The Moody Blues, Traffic, Spirit, Yes, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd. Inspired to write because of profound life changes, she left the classical scene to pursue her original music in 1994. She added 6 & 12 string guitar, synthesizer, and a collection of flutes to her repertoire, performing as a solo artist, in duets, bands, and as a session player.

Over the last ten years, she has been inspired by the international community music movement, researching folk music, ethnomusicology, early childhood music, music therapy, and sociological functions of music in society.

West has written and produced over 100 original songs in over 14 genres of music and released five independent albums—two progressive art rock, two children’s albums, and one new age/meditation CD. A multi-instrumentalist and powerful, versatile singer, West’s live performances are captivating and serenely enchanting, exploring American Blues Rock, Classical European, Latin Jazz, Middle-Eastern, Tibetan, and Appalachian Folk influences. She has toured the United States East Coast and Midwest, England, the Caribbean, and spent the summer of 2004 performing in Vienna, Austria.

Releases:

Pamela's 1997 debut release "Evolution" and her 1999 sophomore release “Dweller on the Threshold” garnered rave reviews internationally, and has received independent and internet airplay and sales in Europe, Russia, Hungary, England, Costa Rica, Australia, Poland, Yugoslavia, Belgium, the Netherlands, and throughout the U.S.A. She was a featured artist on MP3.com and her live studio single, “Live to Sing,” held the #1 spot in the psychedelic chart for over six weeks, in addition to several songs in the top 20 charts of several other genres. She was signed to Michael Quatro’s Quatrophonic Records in Detroit, Michigan prior to her relocation to New York City in 2001.

Special Honors:

In addition to national and international clubs and festivals, she has peformed for patients in New York City hospitals with Musicians On Call (www.musiciansoncall.org), hospice/nursing homes, school children, homeless teen shelters, and community music events. In December of 2003, she was made an Ambassador of Music through a not-for-profit humanitarian organization called Airline Ambassadors. (www.airlineambassadors.org). Her song "Evolution" from the 1997 album was featured on the national music compilation for Congressman Dennis Kucinich's presidential campaign. In addition, was a featured artist in a national Breast Cancer awareness campaign in 2005, sponsored by Clearchannel Entertainment Worldwide.

Since 2001, Pamela West has successfully implemented and continues to develop community arts and music programs for children. She is the founder and Executive Director of The Community Music Network, an organization designed to increase public awareness about the powerful applications for grass roots music and arts development. Her pilot community music center, the Center for Music and Creative Development, was opened in June of 2012 and is located in the village of Hobart, New York, serving the surrounding Catskill Mountain communities in Delaware, Otsego, Schoharie, and Green counties.

She actively performs as a symphonic bassoonist with the Catskill Valley Wind Ensemble, as a solo acoustic singer-songwriter, a children’s entertainer, and with her husband in the Folk Rock duo Diviner.

Catalog & Genres:

Unicorn Crossing - 2011 - Children's Music, featuring Matthew Curran, Theodore Finkle, Henry Herman & Fred Harris

Crystal Planet Meditation - 2004 - New Age/Meditation with Reverend Elizabeth Howell & Peter Blum

Are You Ready, Get Set, Let's Go! 2003 - Children's Music, featuring Michael Quatro, Keith Christopher & Sky

Dweller on the Threshold, 1999 - Art Rock & Psychedelic Pop, featuring Chris Frohring & Erik Diaz

Evolution, 1997 - Progressive Art Rock, featuring Byron Nemeth

 

Email FunMusic4Kids@aol.com for info or to reserve a space in a class.

 

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