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Teaching Children to Make Music

What would happen if you took a class full of children and showed them how to make their own music?

Some 30-thousand kids across America can now answer that question.

We look at some of their stories and the impact of the Virginia-based music creation group, "Kid Pan Alley."

NOTE: This is an encore presentation which was originally broadcast June 6, 2013.

Guest:
Paul Reisler 
- Singer, songwriter, and songwriting teacher.  Founder of the children’s creativity and songwriting education agency Kid Pan Alley. Founder of the traveling music group Paul Reisler and A Thousand Questions.

Additional Contributor:
Heather Mae 
- Professional musician affiliated with the children’s creativity and songwriting education agency Kid Pan Alley and the traveling music group Paul Reisler and A Thousand Questions.

Tom Graham was Senior Producer and host of WMRA's Virginia Insight from 2006 to 2015.