Events & Programs

SUSAN SALIDOR CONCERT

COME & MAKE MUSIC WITH
SUSAN SALIDOR

Date: Sunday, October 3rd, 2004
Time: 3 p.m.

Island Wood
4450 Blakely Ave. Northeast,
Bainbridge Island

TICKETS

Tickets to the October 3 concert are $10 for adults and $5 for children. In addition, families might want to take advantage of joining BIAHC for $50, and their tickets to the concert will be covered in the membership fee along with a Susan Salidor music CD. Advance tickets are available by calling BIAHC at 206-842-7901 or emailing biahc@artshum.org and can be purchased at Calico Cat Toys in Winslow Green. Tickets will also be sold at the door, space permitting.

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CONCERT DETAIL

The Bainbridge Island Arts & Humanities Council brings award-winning children's music composer, performer, and teacher Susan Salidor to Bainbridge Island from September 27 through October 3 for a series of concerts and music workshops. Her visit culminates with an afternoon family concert at 3 p.m. at IslandWood on Sunday, October 3 , followed by a milk-and-cookies party.

Susan is available from September 28 through October 1 to present in-class music and songwriting workshops for students from preschool age through early elementary, as well as teacher workshops for professionals who are looking to integrate more music into their early childhood curriculum.
To arrange for a teacher or in-class workshop, contact BIAHC at 206-842-7901 or biahc@artshum.org

To learn more about Susan or to purchase her award-winning CD's, go to www.susansalidor.com

ABOUT SUSAN SALIDOR:

Based in Chicago, Susan has produced five commercial recordings of music for children and their families, performs in schools, libraries, and theaters throughout the country, and presents her music workshop “Sure-Fire Hits for Preschool Teachers” to teachers from coast to coast. Come and Make a Circle, her newest recording for teachers and kids, has just been honored with the prestigious Parents' Choice Award and an iParenting Media Award (Spring 2004). Susan's first recording, Little Voices in My Head (1995), received an Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Award and was named “One of the year's five best children's recordings” by Sesame Street Parent Magazine. Her second, third, and fourth recordings, Susan Salidor: By Heart (1996), Color Me Singing (1998), and Shiny New Shoes (2001), were also honored with Parents' Choice and other awards.

Susan has also been honored as a songwriter with several ASCAP Popular Awards for songwriting. In addition, Color Me Singing is featured in a primary school textbook, Making Music (Scott Foresman/Silver Burdett). Susan's recordings are recommended in The Best of Everything for Your Baby (Krantz/Exley, Prentice Hall), and her song, “Ruby B.,” appears in the first edition of Ruby Bridges' autobiography Through My Eyes (Scholastic Press). She recently published The Susan Salidor Songbook , a songbook and CD set of original music from her first four recordings. More information is at www.susansalidor.com .

Susan has had a lifelong passion for music, theater, and social justice. Singing for as long as she can remember, Susan began her professional career during the 1976 Bicentennial celebrations in Philadelphia. Hired by the City as a street performer, Susan combined her acting and musical talents to entertain thousands of tourists. After spending two years working in dinner theatre, summer stock, and commercials, she received her Actors' Equity card and moved to New York to study film at New York University. Susan continued her acting career in a series of original New York productions and regionally as well, including the cabaret at Indianapolis Repertory Theater and the Goodman Theater in Chicago .

In 1984, Susan moved to Chicago where she married Jay Rehak. While in Chicago, Susan combined her musical and theatrical talents with her commitment to social justice, helping to form the political activist folk music group, “Voices.” While Susan was a member, the group made four recordings and toured throughout the Midwest in an effort to encourage non-violent systemic change. During those early years in Chicago, Susan also obtained a Secondary Education B.A. degree from the University of Illinois, majoring in History. Susan taught English as a Second Language for five years at Truman College and counts that experience as one of the most rewarding of her professional life. (Part of that experience is reflected in Susan's children's song, “Fine Finklestein.”)

In 1992, four months pregnant with her second daughter, Hannah, Susan served as a song leader for a 200 person International Delegation that carried out a Peace Walk through Israel. The delegation met with both Israeli and Palestinian Peace Activists, standing in silent solidarity in Jerusalem with Palestinian women known as “Women in Black” as well as holding a prayer service on the hilltop overlooking Ashkelon Prison, where jailed anti-nuclear activist Mordechai Vanunu was being held.

Since 1994, Susan has turned her creative sights toward making quality music for children and their families. Susan will be presenting again this year at NAEYC (National Association for the Education of Young Children), the largest early childhood conference in the country. She also just celebrated her tenth year as a music specialist for Chicago 's Jewish Council of Youth Services. Susan co-hosts a weekly kids radio show on WLUW 88.7FM in Chicago, an independent community radio station.

Susan has two daughters, Hope, 15, Hannah, 11, and a foster son, Ali, 22.