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SUMMARY:Britt Kids Concert: Mister G
DESCRIPTION:BioA graduate of Amherst College and the recipient of the first
  songwriting scholarship awarded by Berklee College of Music\, Ben created
  a curriculum that incorporates songwriting as a learning tool for his Mas
 ters thesis. Inspired by his 4th grade students\, he began writing the son
 gs that would comprise his debut family album while working as a classroom
  teacher.More than a decade later\, MISTER G has released 14 albums of ori
 ginal\, multicultural music and received numerous accolades including a L
 atin GRAMMY Award and five Parents’ Choice Gold Awards. He tours intern
 ationally headlining performing arts centers\, festivals\, and theaters\, 
 and his concerts weave together a wide variety of musical styles and langu
 ages.Selected venues include: the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural H
 istory (Washington\, DC)\, JazzFest (New Orleans)\, Austin City Limits\, L
 ollapalooza (Chicago)\, Hard Rock Café (Philadelphia)\, the Getty Center 
 (Los Angeles)\, Central Park SummerStage (New York City)\, JW3 (London)\, 
 Parque Chapultepec (Mexico City).Throughout Ben’s career the crafts of m
 usic and storytelling have intertwined seamlessly propelling him as perfor
 mer and author. Ben has now published four picture books with Penguin Ra
 ndom House based on his original\, bilingual songs. His first book Señor
 ita Mariposa is a bilingual telling of the monarch butterfly migration fr
 om Canada to Mexico. Now in its 13th printing\, it has been used widely in
  classrooms\, StoryWalks and featured at the National Museum of Natural Hi
 story bookstore.Many of Ben’s original songs and stories are inspired by
  his love of the natural world. A committed environmentalist\, he’s perf
 ormed at the National Climate Rally and headlined multiple concerts for th
 e activist group Moms Clean Air Force on Capitol Hill. As part of his long
 -standing partnership with the United States Forest Service\, they have co
 mmissioned him to write songs\, produce a series of virtual Earth Day eve
 nts and create curricula to be used nationwide.For adults and educators\, 
 Ben offers Musical Keynote presentations and workshops at conferences in t
 he US and abroad\, including the National Association of Bilingual Educato
 rs (Dallas and Orlando)\, Monarch Migration and Multilingualism (Sedona)\,
  and Limmud (Birmingham\, England). His professional development workshops
  empower teachers to enliven their classrooms by incorporating the arts as
  a tool to facilitate learning.Acclaimed as one of the world’s most wide
 ly distributed Jewish artists for children\, Ben performs internationally 
 for JCCs\, festivals and cultural institutions. PJ Library commissioned hi
 m to create two albums of original music\, The Mitzvah Bus (Parents’ C
 hoice Gold winner) and Seeds of Shalom. The albums were sent to tens of t
 housands of families throughout the world\, as was his picture book\, Lil
 ah Tov Good Night (Penguin Random House\, 2020). His virtual Hanukkah con
 cert was broadcast to all the 170 JCCs in North America in 2021 and 2022.W
 hether writing in English\, Spanish or Hebrew\, Ben uses songs and stories
  as a unifying tool to build bridges between cultures and people.\n
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