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Alden Phelps

Music / Sound, Performance

About the Artist

Alden Phelps is an artist, songwriter, and musician with over 20 years years of experience performing for audiences of all kinds across the region. Alden’s zany songs, zippy guitar-ifications, and sing-along choruses delight folks of all ages, and his arts-integrated interactive workshops inspire a love of language and the joy of playing with words.

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Featured Work

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Alden's children's and family concerts feature his original funny songs, including "My Mommy's A Pirate", "Your Viral Knee", and other songs that may cause milk to spray out of your nose.

Videos

  • Word Play promotional video

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    Alden Phelps' longest-running and most beloved assembly program "Word Play" has delighted audiences across the DelMarVa area. His silly songs, word games, and audience participation engages students from grades K-5, and can also be tailored for family events.
    Medium: live concert
    Year: 2021
    Details: promotional video is a little over 2 min long

Booking

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Arts in Education

Audiences Types: Early Childhood (0-3 years old), Grades Pre-K – 2, Grades 3-5

Preposterous Parodies - grades 3-5 - Why Parody? We love to create parodies! Students that aren’t inspired by fractions, Maryland history, or earth science will come alive when they can use their knowledge creatively. How Can I Use Parody Songwriting in the Classroom? Parody songwriting is best used to help students retain knowledge that they’ve recently learned. It’s a great project to use at the end of a unit: the students will review all the information as they write. Songwriting is an exercise in collaboration. Students learn to share, collaborate, compromise, and offer useful critique.

*All workshops longer than 90 minutes include an orientation meeting.

Customized arts-integrated PD for grades 3-5
You choose the curriculum topic: a unit from science, history, reading, etc.
3-6 workshops per classroom
A culminating concert for classes to perform their parodies

Word Play - assembly concert - grades K-5
Alden’s far-fetched, funny songs and impressive guitar playing delights every audience. In theis music assembly Word Play, students sing along with original songs such as “My Mommy’s a Pirate” and “Chocolate Pie.” Word games woven into this musical performance bolster language skills and inspire love of language.

Sample Common Core connection
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.4 Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.
AUDIENCE LIMIT 300, PROGRAM LENGTH 45 MINUTES
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Silly Songs with the Barnyard Bard assembly performance - grades PK-2
In Silly Songs with the Barnyard Bard, animal songs such as ‘Everybody’s Wakin’ Up,’ colorful visuals, and animated stories give students a fun appreciation of farms. The audience plays ‘The Breakfast Game’ and the ‘Where Did it Come From?’ game, which help students see the central role that farms play in our everyday lives.

A few other assemblies are available. See: http://www.aldenphelps.com

Alden's performances workshops utilize Arts-Integrated teaching techniques. Alden is an intermediate Spanish speaker.