Nearly 10,000 local K-2 students will pour into Savannah’s Trustees Theater next week for end-of-semester concerts with 2015-16 Musical Explorers artists. The concerts include musical acts by J.J. Collins performing musical theatre selections, Laiken Williams and her band performing soul music, and T’Monde from Lafayette, Louisiana playing traditional Cajun music. Chatham, Beaufort, and Effingham County students have studied the songs and backgrounds of these artists and musical styles through a curriculum integrated into regular classroom instruction. Now, they will have the opportunity to experience the curriculum come to life on stage.

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Musical Explorers is a music education program developed in partnership with Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute. Savannah Music Festival (SMF) has created a new multimedia curriculum that is being taught in area classrooms. Musical Explorers has been adapted by SMF to apply historical, cultural, and geographical lessons, regional music styles, and learning practices to the Georgia coast and South Carolina Lowcountry. For more information, visit SMF’s Musical Explorers webpage.