Alphabet Rockers


		Alphabet Rockers was created by children's music production company School Time Music in 2007 in San Francisco, CA. Harvard graduate and professional singer Kaitlin McGaw and 4 Non Blondes drummer/author/music teacher Dawn Richardson joined together to create Alphabet Rockers. Their goal was to produce high-quality, cutting-edge music for a shared learning entertainment experience for kids, family, and teachers. The debut self-titled CD, Alphabet Rockers has been applauded nationally by parenting publications, teachers and music critics. With a sound and lyric unlike other kids' music, Alphabet Rockers appeals to preschoolers and early elementary school kids with its high-energy sound and surprises and engages parents by how cool and unconventional the songs are. All songs are written with teacher advisors, so the content is perfect for the classroom - and teachers love the fact that the songs also give them street cred’ with young learners. The live show "Alphabet Rockers" is a high-energy, interactive, educational music and dance show for the whole family.




	KAITLIN MCGAW graduated with Honors from Harvard University in Afro-American Studies, which included traveling to South Africa on multiple trips in her studies of intercultural relations and identity. While growing up in the Boston area, Kaitlin sang regularly in children's theatre, gospel choir, and concerts. She received numerous awards from Harvard and the City of Boston for her work in intercultural learning, including developing multicultural curriculum for early education programs and training high school-aged youth in multicultural leadership. In San Francisco, Kaitlin has performed professionally since 2000 as a singer and songwriter. Her favorite children’s recording growing up was “Free to Be You and Me,” and she is thrilled to be writing music that incorporates her love of great stories and songs with the styles of music she loves to listen to today.



	DAWN RICHARDSON has traveled the world playing drums with 90s rock band 4 Non Blondes, and has freelanced as a professional drummer both touring and in the studio. She has published several instructional books on percussion and rock drumming through Mel Bay Publications, and teaches students from 4 to 74 how to play the drums. Dawn’s interest in integrating music in the classroom has been influenced by her two sisters, who both teach elementary school. Dawn met Kaitlin at the Blue Bear School of Music, where they formed a partnership from their mutual interest in children’s music.



	LIVE APPEARANCES in San Francisco & Boston Alphabet Rockers is a dancing, singing, interactive, educational hip-hop show that families and kids of all ages enjoy together. The bi-coastal production features multi-cultural musical performers who bring you the high-energy show with a hip-hop DJ, rapper, beat boxer, electric guitar and soul vocalist. Performing songs from the hit CD Alphabet Rockers, this show is set to be the “School House Rock” of the hip hop generation. Book Alphabet Rockers to perform at your pre-school, elementary school assembly, library, community event, or child’s birthday party! Additional services are available for schools and parties. Available in San Francisco Bay Area and Greater Boston Area. Booking: booking@alphabetrockers.com

	SAN FRANCISCO Alphabet Rockers gets it started in San Francisco with the likes of Alphabet Rockers co-founder Kaitlin McGaw on the mic. Kaitlin is joined by top Bay Area performers such as Stefanie Liang (vocalist/beatboxer), Joey Be (DJ/rapper), Tommy Shepherd (rapper/beatboxer) and more, bringing you a tight production that will put smiles on everyone’s faces. BOSTON Get ready to dance with Maria Minidis rocking the mic for Alphabet Rockers in Belmont, MA. Maria studied voice at the Boston Conservatory and theatre at Boston University, and has been performing on stage and television since she was a child. She’s joined by DJ Reazon (Geoff Abramczyk), a Berklee College of Music graduate, who gets everyone up and dancing, rocking out to his hip-hop scratching. The Boston Alphabet Rockers crew includes other great performers, making Boston area shows a hit. Booking: booking@alphabetrockers.com



	MEAGHAN BRUSCH PhD Candidate, Boston College A 1st grade teacher in Needham, MA since 2000, Meaghan is currently pursuing her PhD in Early Education at Boston College. She teaches special education as well as integrated learning, and shared key curriculum highlights to help share Alphabet Rockers. Her classroom has been “getting down” to the Alphabet Rockers tunes throughout the CD production, and she is proud to be a part of this new wave of musical learning.		MICHELE PEREZ Kindergarten Teacher, Glendora School District, CA Michele has been teaching elementary school for fifteen years, Kindergarten for seven of those fifteen, and also holds her master's degree in counseling. She finds the Alphabet Rocker's music highly effective and useful for her E.L.L. students in Southern California (English Language Learners). "These are great songs for a wide variety of levels of students - they work well for the whole group, not to mention they're modern and fun to listen to for both the teacher and students. In addition to the great learning songs, I especially love the transition song to help me get from activity to activity in the classroom - it's great."

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