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Tom Hunter & The Song Growing Company

In Tom’s own words: We don’t sing as much as people used to. There’s a lot of music around, but we listen more. We’re increasingly interested in performance, less in participation, so kids in cars are more likely to have headphones on than to be singing together, all of which means we need reminders of the power of song — to connect us, to carry information and tradition, to help us mourn and celebrate, to give us courage and identity, to tickle and touch our hearts. Developing brains need songs. Research is clear on that. Songs awaken memories too. They’re the hooks to hang your memories on. They’re also very useful in engaging kids in learning, and in creating lively classrooms. Recordings are good, but our own voices are better. So I hope you’ll sing, even if you don’t feel you’re very good at it. Use recordings to learn a song, to appreciate how someone else does it, to sing along. Then sing yourself — in the car and at bedtime, on the playground and in the hall, anywhere, anytime. It’s one of the best, cheapest, and most fun things you can do!

I want my music to be grounded in the realities of what kids and teachers know. I want it to 'ring true’ as it helps people laugh, cry, remember, celebrate, and learn.

Tom Hunter is:

• minstrel to schools and churches.
• educator, folk singer, and song writer.
• producer of recordings for The Song Growing Co.
• adjunct faculty at Seattle Pacific University.
• Co-Director of the Northwest Teachers' Conference.
• past consultant to state departments of education in Hawaii and Maryland for issues of special education, and the Beach Center on Families and Disability.
• recipient of the 1990 Community Service Award from the Washington Education Association.
• writer of songs that are "standards" in schools around the country.
• has been a radio talk show host (KGO in San Francisco), minister, and youth worker

CD’s by Tom Hunter:

• Still Growing***
• In the Air***
• We’ve Been Waiting for You***
• I have A Box
• I’ll Sing for You
• Come On Over
• Handed Down
• Hand in Hand
• Music is Magic.

***available on Babynut here:

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