South Shore Conservatory's Wacky Wednesdays Family Concert Series Presents Little Groove

South Shore Conservatory’s (SSC) Wacky Wednesdays family concert series welcomes Little Groove to the Jane Carr Amphitheater, One Conservatory Drive, Hingham, on July 1 at 10 am.

Wacky Wednesdays is one of two series in the Conservatory’s diverse Summer Spotlight outdoor summer entertainment series. WATD is the generous media partner for this family concert series. Summer Spotlight also includes Evenings Under the Stars Saturday evening concerts. Little Groove performs fun, catchy, educational music for children that adults find themselves dancing along to, too! Children love being a part of the musical experience, using their bodies, voices, and instruments to contribute to the music. Little Groove performers Sara Wheeler and Erica Leigh encourage children in the audience to play real instruments such as drums, shakers, and tambourines, while they dance, sing, and groove to songs about playtime, sleeptime, trains, planes, rainbows, pigs, monkeys, butterflies, ducks, and dogs! Parents and caregivers are encouraged to join in the musical experience with their children.

Little Groove singer-songwriter, guitarist, and pianist Sara Wheeler plays acoustic folk rock. Growing up in Michigan, Wheeler studied trumpet and piano, and had written her first song by the time she was 13 years old. Although she was self-taught on piano, she made it her major instrument at Berklee College of Music in Boston, where she also studied guitar and voice. At 21, Wheeler moved to Japan and started to tour and travel the world making music. She has toured Japan and Europe several times, once recording at Abby Road with 40 members of the London Symphony Orchestra backing her piano and voice. Her travels have also taken her to Nepal, India, Thailand, and China.

Little Groove’s debut CD titled Building Blocks is a Parents’ Choice award winner and a NAPPA award winner. Wheeler founded Little Groove - Music Education for Children in 2005, which has musically educated over 5,000 families in Boston and the New England area.

This performance is the first of five Wacky Wednesdays family concerts. Other performances include a live performance of New York Times bestselling author-illustrator Brian Lies’ best seller Bats in the Band, with Lies narrating; on July 8, Boston-based children’s singer-songwriter Vanessa Trien and the Jumping Monkeys on July 15; five-time Parents’ Choice Award winner Ben Rudnick and Friends on July 22; and Grammy-nominated Zak Morgan on July 29.

Tickets for family concerts are $15 for adults and $5 for children. Special packages are available for groups of 10 or more. There is no charge for children under three. Tickets may be purchased online at http://www.sscmusic.org/wacky_wednesdays.html or by calling 781-749-7565, ext. 22. For more information about all South Shore Conservatory programs and events, visit www.sscmusic.org or follow us on Facebook.

About South Shore Conservatory
South Shore Conservatory, recently recognized as a national model for arts education by the National Guild for Community Arts Education, is celebrating nearly 45 years of enriching the lives of South Shore residents through music and the arts. SSC was founded as a not-for-profit community music school in 1970 and now has two beautiful campuses in Hingham and Duxbury. Currently serving over 3,500 students of all ages and abilities, SSC is the largest community school for the arts in Massachusetts. Students participate in more than 50 diverse programs in music, dance and drama. Through innovative partnerships with social service agencies, SSC’s Creative Arts Therapies department supports the mental, emotional, and physical health of some of our community’s more fragile members. SSC’s Hingham campus is located at One Conservatory Drive, Hingham, 781-749-7565. SSC’s Duxbury campus is located at the Ellison Center for the Arts, 64 St. George Street, Duxbury, 781-934-2731. South Shore Conservatory is a member of the National Guild for Community Arts Education. SSC programs are supported in part by a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency. For more information call us, follow us on Facebook or visit www.sscmusic.org.

In keeping with SSC’s inclusive mission to provide access to quality education in the arts for all, the Conservatory offers programs for all segments of the population to enjoy, regardless of age, ability, geography, and financial means. Furthermore, South Shore Conservatory admits students and families of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school.