Come explore how music can illuminate themes and engage audiences. Music creates ambiance and heightens joy for adults. It draws children into telling as well as listening. Learn your musical strengths - how to use your voice, explore body percussion, create refrains, and play with words. You should leave the workshop with a better understanding of how and when to add music to your stories. You don’t need a degree from Julliard. You just need creativity, an understanding of your forte, and a story.

Kathleen Johnson is a musician and storyteller. Her improvisatory compositions journey into the corners of traditional lore where faeries and selkie still live, and the music gives them breath. She has performed at fantasy fairs and cultural art shows from Maryland to South Dakota and was named Musical Act of 2012 at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival. Kathleen graduated from Eastman School of Music in 1990 and currently lives in Minnesota.