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This fall, let music be your passport! On Oct. 6, the Pocahontas County Opera House and Pocahontas Music will kick-off a free after-school program called Tune Travelers. Tune Travelers is a six-iveek series of world music workshops featuring youth and adult music groups from across West Virginia, including Heidi Muller and Bob Webb's Mountain Dulcimer Duo, West Virginia Highland Dancers, Greenbrier Academy for Girls African Drum and Dance Group, WVU Latin Jazz Ensemble, WVU Japanese Taiko Ensemble, and Frankfort Middle School "Teal Steel" Band.

All students from grades 4 through 8 are invited to participate in the afterschool program in which students will not only listen to live performances, they will also learn to play unusual instruments like the barrel-sized Japanese Taiko drum. They will also be able to dance traditional dances and sing in foreign languages while learning about each focus country's geography, history and culture through their musical experience.

The after-school program is only half of the Tune Travelers

experience. To compliment arts education in the Pocahontas County public school system and to ensure that all children will have an opportunity to survey music from other cultures, Marlinton Elementary School, Marlinton Middle School, Hillsboro Elementary and Green Bank Elementary and Middle School have all scheduled dates during school to attend performances by these world music groups at the Opera House.

While participation in Tune Travelers is free of charge, early registration is encouraged.

Tune Travelers is presented with financial assistance from the West Virginia Division of Culture and History, and the National Endowment for the Arts, with approval from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts. Financial support is also provided by the West Virginia Department of Education and the Arts and the Plum Creek Foundation.

For more information about Tune Travelers or other Opera House programming, call the Pocahontas County Opera House at 304-799-6645 or visit pocahontasoperahouse. org.



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