Words & Music at Music Mountain Oct. 3

This year the D. M. Hunt Library’s free Words and Music Program is for and about kids of all ages at Music Mountain in Falls Village on Sunday October 3 at 2:00. Parents are encouraged to bring their cameras and video cameras to record their children's performance on the historic Music Mountain stage.

Falls Village native and Bennington College graduate, Jon Grusauskas, will direct his Millerton Knights Children’s Ensemble in traditional Afro-Cuban rhythms like samba and salsa to funky versions of Michael Jackson and more. The musicians, ranging from 8 years old to younger, know their music well and play trumpet, clarinet, saxophone, drums, percussion, and keyboards.

Hunt Children’s Librarian, Rita Delgado will ask children in the audience to join her on stage and teach them American Sign Language to tell Goldilocks and the Three Bears to the audience.

The program will close with a tribute to well-loved books for or about children that were turned into musicals. Broadway actress, playwright and author, Betsy Howie, will read short passages from Dicken’s Oliver Twist, J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan, and William Steig’s Shrek! Then Callie Carter, Lydia Downs from Falls Village and Brianna Hoyt of Salisbury will sing a song from each of the musicals inspired by these classic books.