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2005 National Conference
Delavan, Wisconsin, was the location of the first CMN National
Conference held in the Midwest, a lively, song-filled gathering at
the Lake Lawn Resort Hotel October 21–23, 2005. One of the program
highlights, the Magic Penny Award and song-filled tribute,
honored Ruth Crawford
Seeger, whose books of children's folk songs and suggestions
for their effective use in the classroom are classics still in use
across the country. The Sunday program included a special
presentation: Healing Arts in Times of Need, in which two
members described work being done with evacuees from hurricane
areas of the U.S. and in tsunami-devastated Sri Lanka. We heard a
firsthand report about using music and other arts with children in
evacuee shelters and hospitals. Conference attendees could select
from a number of workshops:
- Multicultural/multilingual Song Swaps
- Songwriting
- How to Read Music
- Music for Children with Disabilities
- Peace and Justice Song Swap
- Ecology
- Early Childhood Roundtable
- Teaching Group Music Lessons
- Preschool Music
- Marketing and Publicity How-tos for Performers
- Instrument Making.
Click here for full workshop
descriptions.
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