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Quotes About the Show
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Partial List of Schools Visited
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Sample Programs
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Jim's Fees & Needs For School Concerts
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"Walkin' Jim's music invites kids to sing, to care, and to get outdoors. We've been singing his songs in my classroom for five years and every class has loved them. Walkin' Jim's songs help bring out the children's desire to protect wilderness --- without preaching or being pessimistic. It's fun, uplifting music with irresistible choruses. We have howled along with wolves and squeaked along with pikas, thanks to Walkin' Jim."
-- Steve Gilzow, Teacher
Paddock Elementary
Milan, Michigan |
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Walkin’ Jim plants seeds.
He gets children to think about the environment & presents a good message in a fun way.
He is a positive role model & shows children that people can make a living doing something they love. |
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"Walkin' Jim and his music brought wild places and a mountain top perspective to all of us. He helped us to reconnect to the earth and all its wild creatures. Joyful music and fantastic photography swept us up into a celebration of life and an empowerment that we, too, can help preserve it." --- Susan Hoffman (4/5 teacher) Crested Butte, CO
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Walkin' Jim's Kid's Music
Walkin' Jim's show for adults, "Forever Wild", has been getting rave reviews since he started touring with it in 1985. With the praise for "Forever Wild" came requests for a similar multi-media show for children. Jim began performing for elementary schools in the mid-80's. In 1990 he produced his first recording of kid's music, "A Kid For The Wild". The recording has been a big hit with environmental educators and has been an important part of the National Forest Service's "Wilderness Box" program. In 1994 Jim released a half hour film for children titled, "Come Walk With Me". The effort received several awards and numerous enthusiastic reviews for combining simple ecological lessons with fun music, great footage of wildlife, and scenes of Jim and his kid friends wandering through the backcountry. 1997 saw the release of his second kid's music recording, "The Web of Life".
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"It's a song for the hills, it's a song for the trees
It's a song for the skies, it's a song for the seas,
It's a song for you, it's a song for me,
It's a Whole Earth Harmony."
- from "Whole Earth Harmony" by Walkin' Jim Stoltz
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Multi-Media Shows For Children
Jim's multi-media shows for children are full of sing-a-longs, stories, and beautiful slides artistically blended from two projectors. The kid's concerts are geared toward elementary age children (though he has been visiting more middle and high schools lately, too), and usually run from 45 to 50 minutes, including a question and answer time. Between the pictures, the songs, and Jim's enthusiasm, the show can easily capture and hold the attention of a room full of kids.
The shows can be performed in an assembly type situation for the entire school, but Jim prefers to do two (or sometimes, three) smaller shows in each school. The smaller groups are more intimate, easier to adapt for a question and answer session, and ultimately, the kids get much more out of it. He loves to do a couple shows in the morning and then spend the rest of the day visiting classrooms and talking to the children.
Currently Jim has two different shows, "The Web of Life", and "Wild Things Need Wild Places". Both are entertaining, yet educational programs, conveying respect for wildlife, concern for preserving habitat, and the need for humans to live in harmony with their environment. In "Wild Things Need Wild Places", the words "habitat" and "harmony" are used often throughout the show, stressing not only the wildlife's need for wild places, but also our own human needs. "The Web of Life" show teaches a very simple, but important lesson: how things are all linked together in nature. Through catchy sing-a-longs, stories, and slides, a strong environmental message is shared.
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"Walkin' Jim Stoltz walked into our lives and gave us one of the finest programs we have ever experienced. His beautiful voice was complimented by an outstanding slide show ..... our children and staff were enthralled...."
--- D.N. Haugen, Principal
Orchard Ridge Elementary School
Madison, Wisconsin
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"We are a part of the web of life,
We are a part of the web of life,
Oh, we're just one strand but we'll give it a hand,
Part of the web of life!"
-- from The Web of Life by Walkin' Jim Stoltz
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Send Jim an E-mail by Clicking Here , or call 406-449-6252
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