Community Corner
Jim Gill Family Concert Series
Experience some banjo-strumming, all-ages fun with an award-winning musician.
Jim Gill is a child development specialist and an award-winning musician. He leads energetic concerts, playing his banjo while the audience claps, sings and dances along to silly-but-inspiring musical games. Each concert includes an opportunity for family play.
Come see what makes him special when he plays three concerts on May 8 and 9.
Jim Gill Family Concert series schedule:
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May 8, Friday, 4 p.m.
Fair Oaks Library
11601 Fair Oaks Blvd., Fair Oaks
May 9, Saturday, 11 a.m.
Central Library, West Meeting Room
828 I St. Sacramento
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May 9, Saturday, 2 p.m.
Franklin Library
10055 Franklin High Road, Elk Grove
All programs presented with the support of the Friends of Sacramento Public Library.
Anyone who has experienced one of Jim’s family concerts knows that rather than performing for the children and parents, Jim leads them to sing and play together.
His active music play provides a context for children to develop abilities, such as self-regulation, essential to school success. Jim’s clever word play and rhymes and active movement games also provide broad opportunities for literacy development.
Among Jim’s many credentials: •Six award-winning CDs
•Author of two children’s books, including “A Soup Opera,” which received an American Library Association award in 2010
•Completed his graduate studies in child development at the Erikson Institute of Chicago with a special emphasis on the study of play