Youth Services News Fw: [EXTERNAL] Re: Performers and Programs List

[McCabe, Kelly, DCA]

Below are three recommendations from Phil Neilson, Octavia Fellin Public Library:

Dan Crow
Fee-based
Musician, children's music
dankrow at aol.com<mailto:dankrow at aol.com> & dancrowmusic at gmail.com<mailto:dancrowmusic at gmail.com>
1003 Hess Terrace, Las Cruces, NM  88005
Dan is an award winning children's musician, songwriter, and performer.  The concert he did at our library was very fun-filled and interactive.  He told fun stories in between songs that had the kids all laughing, and had lots of jokes and gags sprinkled throughout his performance.  He was my favorite performer we had in the summer of 2023.


Daniel Vandever
Fee-based
Book reading / Storytime
https://www.facebook.com/DanielVandeverFanPage/
505-240-4421
1458 W Flannery Pl., Tucson, AZ 85746
dwvandever at gmail.com<mailto:dwvandever at gmail.com>
Daniel is an award-winning children's book author and illustrator from New Mexico (although he now lives in Tucson, he still is back in NM fairly frequently).  His two published books are Fall in Line, Holden and Herizon (winner of the 2022 AIYLA award for best picture book).  When he visited our library, he led a highly interactive 40-minute book reading session in which he read and discussed his two books with the kids.  He was very responsive, high-energy, and kept the kids' interest and attention so well.  He also did a great job tying in cultural concepts and making them accessible to a young audience.  I would highly recommend him for any NM library.

Rick Stromoski
Fee-based
Drawing workshops
https://rickstromoski.com/
860-550-2391
569 North Main Street, Suffield, CT 06078
soup2nutz at cox.net<mailto:soup2nutz at cox.net>
Rick is a nationally syndicated cartoonist and, more recently, author of a juvenile graphic novel series called Schnozzer and Tatertoes (the second book in the series just came out).  Because he is based in Connecticut, he offers drawing workshops via Zoom (although he said he was willing to come out to NM, it would just be more expensive to cover his travel expenses).  While I was initially less excited about a Zoom workshop, it was so great - he had a whiteboard system that allowed him to draw and we could all see it on the projected screen.  He was really interactive and did such a good job explaining how to draw.  He offers workshops on different topics, but the one we did was "Let's Draw Animals" - and it was great.  Rick also mailed each program participant a signed picture.


On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 3:53 PM McCabe, Kelly, DCA <Kelly.McCabe at dca.nm.gov<mailto:Kelly.McCabe at dca.nm.gov>> wrote:
Hello Everybody,

I am re-sharing the Performers and Programs list (attached to this email) that was compiled from the 2023 survey.  These are all recommendations of New Mexico library staff - their comments appear on the list.

If you have ADDITIONS of performers you used last summer, or have booked for this summer, and would recommend to other libraries - please feel free to reply to this post with the necessary details.

Happy Summer Reading!

Kelly

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Kelly McCabe, MSLS, MAEd
Youth Services Coordinator
New Mexico State Library
1209 Camino Carlos Rey
Santa Fe, NM 87507
kelly.mccabe at dca.nm.gov<mailto:kelly.mccabe at dca.nm.gov>
www.nmstatelibrary.org<http://www.nmstatelibrary.org/>
NMSL Youth Services Page<https://nmstatelibrary.org/services-for-new-mexico-libraries/programs-and-services/youth-services/>

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