Where it all started...
Mr. Benjamin likes to write songs, and when he started teaching music class at The Atelier School of Creative Learning and he brought out some instruments for the students to make a band and have a jam session. He asked the class, "What should we call our band?" and one student yelled "THE FUN BAND!!" And that was it... the name stuck. Mr. Benjamin asked some of his grown-up musician friends to join him on stage, as well as some awesome kids, and they all learned the fun songs that he had written for his students in music class. The grown-ups learned their parts, and dressed up in costumes for the show. Everyone had a great time, dancing and singing in the sunshine and bubbles! We had such a great time, that we decided to do it again really soon!
Press for Mr. Benjamin and the Fun Band
From The Columbia Missourian
An excerpt from "Families boogie down at Rose Music Hall's Kid Disco! Event"
by Khalia L. Smith "Benjamin Hook, also known as Mr. Benjamin, is a music teacher at The Atelier School of Creative Learning which he and his wife founded. Hook expressed the need for music in learning environments and how it helps children learn from a different perspective. “We’re infusing arts into all the different areas of learning, you know, trying to infuse into math, science and really bring everything together,” Hook said. “Music is essential, I teach music at our schools and a lot of the kids here today are actually my students.” Mr. Benjamin of Mr. Benjamin and the Fun Band leads a participatory solfège scale on Sunday at Rose Music Hall’s Kid Disco! in Columbia. Mr. Benjamin had an accompanying pose for each syllable. - BRADFORD SIWAK/MISSOURIAN
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