Sing Along Adventures with the Rí Rá Rag Tag Band 

"Sing Along Adventures is an interactive musical exploration for children. Join our ragtag team of musicians on a journey through songs from around the world, and follow our musical map on our quest to find the magic cherry blossom tree! The event is primarily intended for children aged 3-7, with a parent/guardian to be present. Join in the fun on this singing, dancing musical adventure!"

Sing Along Adventures with the Rí Rá Rag Tag Band is a show I was commissioned to develop for The National Concert Hall. It was performed with Lucie O'Flynn and Micheal Chanda. 
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Woven through the story were traditional folk songs in various languages (Bantu, French, Japanese, Irish...etc.) from different parts of the world, as well as dances and folk stories. 
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A large hand painted map acted as a visual guide through the performance and shaped the form of the show: between each scene children would help us to consult the map to see where we needed to go next on our adventure. 

​The show was fully interactive with the audience participating along the way in a very organic, communal way; audiences danced and sang along, they mimed rowing an hiking along the adventure, they sometimes even performed songs or rhymes of their own.

​Although the show was scripted I made sure when designing the show that children would feel they had agency in the story as it unfolded.