Magpie

• About the Artist:

  Celebrate the Earth’s environment, history, and culture with award-winning musical duo Magpie’s engaging and uplifting music. Since 1973, Terry Leonino and Greg Artzner have brought their unique sound and remarkable versatility to audiences everywhere, featuring traditional and vintage Americana to contemporary and stirring original compositions. With two strong voices in harmony and superb instrumental arrangements, their sound is powerful and moving. Award-winning recording artists, singers, songwriters, musical historians, playwrights, actors, and social activists, Terry and Greg are proud to be, as Pete Seeger said of them, “…more links in the chain”, dedicating their lives and music to leaving this world a better place.

  Category:

  • Music

  Type of Programs Offered

  • residency
  • workshop
  • assembly
  • virtual
• • Living Planet & Living Planet 2

    Description:
    

    Celebrate the complex web of life forms that populate the earth – whales to wolves, magpies to macaws, teeming oceans to frozen tundra – and learn how we can help to preserve the earth. For those who have enjoyed Living Planet in the past, Living Planet 2 offers a way to extend learning through new songs and ideas.

    Workshop and residency options are also available. Virtual program options are available.

    MSAC Teaching Artist Roster: AiE funds available

    Appropriate Grade Levels:
    PreK-12

    Curriculum Connections
    

    Music, Language Arts, Social Studies, STEM, Character/SEL, Green

    This program is offered as:

    • residency
    • workshop
    • assembly
    • virtual
  • Sense of Wonder: A Tribute to Rachel Carson

    Description:
    

    This music and literature program help students connect to the beautiful writings of famous nature author Rachel Carson and encourages a love for science and for the Earth. Students read and recite Rachel’s uplifting words and enjoy wonderfully singable chorus songs, with a goal of inspiring us all to do our part to protect wildlife and their habitats. In a songwriting residency, students write new songs with Greg & Terry about the issues that concerned Rachel, expressing what we can do today to continue her work celebrating and protecting the planet.

    Virtual program options are available.

    MSAC Teaching Artist Roster: AiE funds available

    Appropriate Grade Levels:
    PreK-12

    Curriculum Connections
    

    Music, Language Arts, Social Studies, STEM, Character/SEL, Green

    This program is offered as:

    • residency
    • workshop
    • assembly
    • virtual
  • Battle Cry of Freedom: From Civil War to Civil Rights

    Description:
    

    Beginning with music from the abolitionist movement and the Underground Railroad, Magpie explores freedom fighters from history, including John Brown, the famed raider of Harper’s Ferry and Harriet Tubman, the great conductor of the Underground Railroad. They continue the story of the struggle for freedom and equality into the 1960s and the present day, connecting the songs used in the Underground Railroad with their use in the sit-ins, freedom rides and other demonstrations organized by those involved in the modern Civil Rights Movement.

    Virtual program options are available.

    MSAC Teaching Artist Roster: AiE funds available

    Appropriate Grade Levels:
    PreK-12

    Curriculum Connections
    

    Music, Language Arts, Social Studies, Character/SEL, Green

    This program is offered as:

    • residency
    • workshop
    • assembly
    • virtual

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  Artist's videos:

• Name or Art Agency:
  Artivate, Inc.
  Email:
  [email protected]
  Phone:
  (301) 588-7525
  State / County:
  Maryland

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