Violin/Fiddle Concerts & Performances

Serving Youth & Families Since 1996

Schools • Libraries • Childcare Centers • Parks
Youth Groups • Senior Citizen Groups
Festivals • Celebrations • Events

 

Twin Cities Metro Area • East Central MN
Western WI • USA

Music & Storytelling Performances

A Violin/Fiddle Concert for Kids

Join Musician Pierre for a fun filled Bluegrass, Celtic & Scandinavian music performance.  Tap your toes to folk tunes, learn more about the violin/fiddle
and try playing one! 

Traditionally folk music was played in farmhouse kitchens, at barn dances and out on the green.

Violin/Fiddle music has deep cultural roots
 and is a part of the American Pioneer Experience.

Student size fiddles are provided for
children to try playing at the concert

Classroom Concerts

Schools: Grades K-6
Childcare Centers: Ages 2-12
Rates based upon location, class size and
number of 30 min. classroom concerts/day.

Concerts for Kids & Families

ECFE • Libraries • Youth Groups
Festivals • Camps • Parks • Events
Rates based upon location, audience size and
concert length (30 minutes – 1 hour)

 Concerts for Senior Citizens

• Music & stories that illustrate the differences & similarities between traditional fiddle music and classical violin music and a demonstration of why this instrument still has so much mystique.

• Pierre’s Bio – adventures moving to an 1880's homestead in the country at age 4 & his musical journey learning to play the violin/fiddle!

• Nature Songs & Stories – Pierre’s adventures in nature – from the wild edible harvest to communicating with wildlife with music.

Concert Rates based upon location, audience size and concert length (30 minutes – 1 hour)

Excerpt from CHISAGO­/ISANTI COUNTY STAR

­When Pierre Jacques Pleau was 5 years old he was walking through a mall with his parents and saw a small violin in a music shop window. They went in to look at it, but it turned out to be a soprano ukulele. He still thought it looked a lot like a violin and, much to his delight, his parents bought it for him.
When they arrived home, Pleau hurried out to the backyard, found a flexible stick and tied a string on it. Then putting the ukulele on his shoulder, he tried playing it with his makeshift bow. Even though it didn’t make very good sound, he didn’t give up on his dream of learning to play a real violin. Three years later he started taking lessons. Thus began his passion for music and the performing arts.
...Pleau went on to write and produce several youth musicals based on historical fiction of the Midwest pioneer experience and his own personal experience of growing up on an 1880’s homestead.
From 2008­-2011, Pleau wrote six youth musicals including the music and lyrics. The musicals were performed at North Branch Area High School and included 69 songs and 18 instrumental pieces, several of which he now sings or plays in his music and storytelling performances...

Service Area

East Central Minnesota • Twin Cities Metro Area • Western Wisconsin • USA