{"id":23460,"date":"2019-04-04T19:47:35","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T23:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=23460"},"modified":"2019-04-04T19:47:44","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T23:47:44","slug":"childrens-music-brought-to-life-with-familiar-community-faces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/childrens-music-brought-to-life-with-familiar-community-faces\/","title":{"rendered":"Children\u2019s music brought to life with familiar community faces"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Brock Weir<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Walking into the\nAurora Public Library with her kids in 1987, Kathy Reid Naiman just wanted to\nintroduce her kids to the journeys that can happen between the pages of a book;\nbut this particular trip set the Aurora mother on a different journey all\ntogether, one which is set to come full circle at the Aurora Cultural Centre\nnext week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ms. Reid Naiman, who\nis now a duo with her daughter Hannah Shira Naiman, will perform this Saturday,\nApril 6, in \u201cFantastical Musical Imaginations\u201d, the latest installment of the\nCultural Centre\u2019s Meridian Magic Carpet Series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ms. Reid Naiman saw\nher career begin at the Aurora Public Library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A musician ever\nsince she was a teenager, her love of music took something of a backseat once\nshe started her family. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThen, when I was in\nToronto, somebody I knew who did children\u2019s music was sick and needed a\nreplacement so I stepped in \u2013 then she decided she didn\u2019t want to do it anymore\nand she passed the job onto me. When we moved up to Aurora, I had stopped doing\nchildren\u2019s music and walked into the Library with my kids just to show them the\nplace. I heard the Library trying to register someone for their music program,\nbut they didn\u2019t have a teacher. I decided to apply for it and they accepted\nme.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From that chance\nbeginning, Ms. Reid Naiman has gone on to entertain generations of Aurora kids.\nWhat started off at the Aurora Public Library has branched into over 15 albums,\na popular YouTube channel and a presence on Spotify. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children, she says,\ngravitate towards every kind of music. You can play just about anything and\nthey will accept it \u2013 although, she cautions, not everything is appropriate for\nthe young demographic!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inspired by the\nearliest forms of rhymes and songs, Ms. Reid Naiman has put a lot of research\ninto what she does, crafting a set that appeals not only to the youngest\nchildren, but offers something for the parents as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s important that\nthe parents enjoy it because you have to engage them or the children don\u2019t\ncare,\u201d she says. \u201cI think it clicked right at the start in Aurora because, when\nI started, I had not worked with babies, I had worked with children older than\nthree to five. I had to make up a program I thought might work and it did. It\nfelt so good, so I kept doing it. At one point at the Aurora Public Library, I was\ndoing 21 classes a week, so it was kind of obvious I was clicking.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It also clicked with\nHannah, who started doing music with children professionally about five years\nago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before focusing in\non kids, she explored other areas of music, but following in the family\nfootsteps came naturally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe knows a good\nthing when she hears it!\u201d jokes Kathy when asked what makes she and Hannah gel\nas a performing duo, before giving a serious answer. \u201cShe liked what I was\ndoing, learned a lot of the songs I had been doing in my classes, used them in\nher classes, and she does a very similar style \u2013 but now I feel it has come\nalmost full circle now because I feel I am learning from her as much as she is\nlearning from me. She will take a different twist on a song that I have doing\nfor many years and think, \u2018Oh, that really works! I\u2019ll try it that way.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe also has an\nalmost-two-year-old who is helping us both learn a lot!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The most rewarding\npart of performing with the next generation, she says, is harmonizing with her\ndaughter and being able to interact on stage with her. Not only is it fun, she\nsays, but they have developed a rapport where they can anticipate where each\nother is going to take a song, almost every step of the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also rewarding for\nKathy is the feeling she gets when kids she used to perform for at the Aurora\nPublic Library bring their own kids to a gig, keeping the tradition alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt makes me feel a\nlittle old, but, at the same time, it is just a wonderful feeling to know they\nvalued it so much as a child that they wanted to pass it onto their children,\u201d\nshe says. \u201cIt\u2019s the continuity of music and story.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information on Brevik Hall Presents:\nFantastical Musical Imaginations, part of the Meridian Magic Carpet Series,\nincluding tickets, visit www.auroraculturalcentre.ca or call 905-713-1818.<\/em><\/p>\n\r\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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