{"id":12160,"date":"2015-12-22T17:50:19","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T22:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=12160"},"modified":"2015-12-22T17:50:19","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T22:50:19","slug":"tricycle-music-fest-at-the-san-mateo-county-library-and-the-san-francisco-public-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/tricycle-music-fest-at-the-san-mateo-county-library-and-the-san-francisco-public-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Tricycle Music Fest at the San Mateo County Library and the San Francisco Public Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The San Francisco Public Libraries and the San Mateo County Libraries held the seventh annual Tricycle Music Fest in October! <a href=\"http:\/\/francesengland.com\/\">Frances England<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/luckydiazmusic.com\/\">Lucky Diaz and the Family Jam Band<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wearethenot-its.com\/\">The Not-It\u2019s!<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaronnigelsmith.com\/\">Aaron Nigel Smith<\/a> played sixteen concerts at libraries and parks throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I had the opportunity to coordinate all of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smcl.org\/tricycle\">concerts<\/a>\u00a0at the San Mateo County Libraries\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">this year.\u00a0Kahla Gubanich already wrote a wonderful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/planning-childrens-concerts-a-guide\/\">blog post<\/a>\u00a0about planning a children\u2019s concert at the library, which includes all of the most important details about putting together a large scale concert program. However, I wanted to share the work our amazing Youth Services staff did at our recent concerts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Each location put together Family Engagement activities for patrons to participate in before, during or after the concerts.\u00a0\u00a0Check out some of the exciting activities our staff facilitated:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Play<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Blocks<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Waterbeads<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bubbles<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Imagination Playground<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Legos &amp; Megablox<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Playdough<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Water Tables<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Arts and Crafts<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chalk Masterpieces<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Animal Crafts, followed by a Pet Adoption Fair<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you\u2019re planning to host a family concert at your library, consider adding on one of the above activities for even more fun! <\/span><\/p>\n<p>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stephanie Saba is the Senior Librarian at the Brisbane Library in California and is writing this post for the Early Childhood Programs and Services Committee. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Francisco Public Libraries and the San Mateo County Libraries held the seventh annual Tricycle Music Fest in October! Frances England, Lucky Diaz and the Family Jam Band, The Not-It\u2019s!, and Aaron Nigel Smith played sixteen concerts at libraries and parks throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. I had the opportunity to coordinate all of the\u00a0concerts\u00a0at the San Mateo County Libraries\u00a0this year.\u00a0Kahla Gubanich already wrote a wonderful blog post\u00a0about planning a children\u2019s concert at the library, which includes all of the most important details about putting together a large scale concert program. However, I wanted to share the work our amazing Youth Services staff did at our recent concerts.\u00a0 Each location put together Family Engagement activities for patrons to participate in before, during or after the concerts.\u00a0\u00a0Check out some of the exciting activities our staff facilitated: Play Blocks Waterbeads Bubbles Imagination Playground Legos &amp; Megablox Playdough Water Tables Arts&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":207,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[493,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-early-childhood-programs-and-services-committee","category-programming-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/207"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}