Susana and Timmy Abell (Silver Trout Arts) offer a dynamic collaboration of two highly respected teaching artists that combines original music with puppetry and storytelling to open a wide lens on “sharing stories” as a means of self-expression. With 35 years touring experience, Timmy Abell is one of the Southeast’s most popular family entertainers. His CDs have won the highest national awards including the prestigious NC Arts Council Fellowship for Songwriting. Timmy has performed at The Kennedy Center, The National Theater and in countless schools across the country. Susana Abell is a bilingual puppeteer, writer and singer with a graduate teaching degree. She has performed and taught on three continents with sponsorship from Carnegie Hall and The Dodge Foundation.
Susana and Timmy Abell bring a wealth of experience to their work with young people, including extensive performance and residency work in Charlotte over the last decade. Both of these talented artists have dedicated their performing and teaching careers to the ideal of bringing inspiration and instruction in the arts to children of all backgrounds and of all ages.
timmyabell@mac.com
http://www.silvertrout.org
379 Beaverdam Road, Asheville, NC 28804
Buncombe
828-423-6000
828-253-7225
Susana and Timmy Abell’s concerts are diverse, interactive and filled with music and laughter. Their residencies and workshops foster deep creativity and enliven students’ natural curiosity. Multiple art forms including music, storytelling, puppetry and poetry demonstrate that there are “So Many Ways to Share A Story”. Performances include an original puppet fable (a captivating story without words performed to live music on the hammered dulcimer), dramatic storytelling, and award-winning original songs accompanied by music played on seven different instruments – including concertina, penny whistle, guitar, banjo and ukelele. There is even a Spanish-speaking sloth! The sheer variety of repertoire keeps Susana and Timmy’s audiences fully engaged from beginning to end.
Their presentations are specific for all grade levels, K-2, 3-5 & 6-8. All programs address curriculum standards from elementary (writing narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events) through middle schools (use movement, voice, and writing to communicate ideas and feelings). Most importantly, Susana and Timmy’s concerts inspire students by offering a wide range of imaginative options for their own creative self-expression.
Susana and Timmy Abell
828-423-6000
timmyabell@mac.com
Dates in Charlotte are flexible as it is close to our Asheville home. We book throughout the year and maintain a calendar of available dates on our website.
Assembly concerts are 50-55 minutes in length. If scheduling back-to-back performances, ideal is 1 hr 15 minutes apart (i.e. 9:00 & 10:15), but we can adjust for tight lunch schedules.
In smaller theaters and schools, our program is technically self-sufficient, we bring our own high quality sound system, requiring only one (@6′) table.
We can perform wherever your assemblies are best situated.
School fees: $650 single concert, $1100 2 back-to-back concerts
Common Core standards modeled in our performances include “writing narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events…” ( W.3-Text Types and Purposes) as well as “producing clear and coherent writing …appropriate to task, purpose, and audience” (W.4- Production and Distribution of Writing). We encourage educators to use our accompanying performance study guide to support these standards. Concert/workshop combinations delve more deeply into the Common Core Standards for Writing as students produce their own songs and stories through “developing and strengthening writing as needed by planning revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach”(W.5 – Production and Distribution of Writing). We also address multiple Anchor Standards for Speaking and Listening such as “preparing and participating effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on other’s ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively” (SL.1 – Comprehension and Collaboration), and “making strategic use of digital media and visual displays of data to express information and enhance understanding of presentations (SL.5 – Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas).
We invite audiences to “understand the interacting elements to respond to music and music performances” (Music-MR.1) as well as demonstrating the ways that “music is used in customs and traditions of various cultures” (Music-CR.1). In addition, we offer multiple gateways to the Social Studies curriculum, specifically “understanding the impact of various cultural groups in North Carolina” (Social Studies 4.C.1). Our puppetry and storytelling segments offer opportunities for students to “analyze literary texts and performances” (Theatre Arts A.1) as well as teaching the ways that “movement, voice, and writing communicate ideas and feelings” (Theatre Arts C.1).
50% of the total fee