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Music is a great gift for yourself, your kids, your friends, and your children’s teachers!
Established in 1988, Rivanna Music creates tunes that teach. Music therapist, singer/songwriter, Cathy Bollinger infuses this multisensory effect into her songs. Cathy has written children’s music which is so much fun, kids don’t even realize they are learning. Teachers and parents like Cathy’s music as much as their little ones do!
Cathy Bollinger has been working with children through music for more than 20 years. Beloved by her young audiences, she holds songwriting and teacher workshops, practices music therapy and performs. Bollinger received her Master of Arts in Creative Arts Therapy from Drexel University College of Medicine (formerly Hahnemann Medical School) in Pennsylvania, and can often be found in the classroom, singing with preschool and elementary audiences and helping teachers to use the songs with their curricula.
Cathy and her business partner, Elly Tucker are committed to helping children by creating tunes that teach social skills, reading skills and other important daily living and school readiness skills.
The winner of FOUR Parents’ Choice Awards, as well as the National Parenting Publications Award (NAPPA) for children’s music, Rivanna Music has earned ”Parenting Magazine Pick” for the past 2 years and her music has been acclaimed by the American Library Association’s Booklist, School Library Journal and Autism Spectrum Quarterly.
Cathy has just finished work on her NINTH and newest CD, Ready to Learn! Songs for School Success It has just arrived! Parents and teachers are all abuzz about the exciting response with children that is resulting from Ready To Learn! Get on the bus...get one today!
Cathy’s new inservice/workshop, entitled ”Rhythm, Rhyme, and Repetition: A Workshop for Preschool and Early Elementary Classroom Teachers” is available for your community. She has led these workshops for the New York Public Libraries, Core Knowledge Foundation, Virginia Public Schools and Title I Programs. Recently Cathy and Elly were invited as Keynote Address by The Wyoming Children’s Action Alliance for their STARS Conference (Statewide Training Resource System). Please contact us for more information on doing workshops and/or presentations..
On behalf of the Parents' Choice Awards Committees, it is my great pleasure to let you know that Ready to Learn! Songs for School Success has been designated a 2007 Parents' Choice Award Winner.
The Parents' Choice Awards program received many strong entries this season; Ready to Learn! Songs for School Success is among the small percentage selected to receive a Parents' Choice Award.
I hope this brief but hearty congratulations will suffice until you receive the Parents' Choice Awards certificate honoring your work.
Songwriter Cathy Bollinger, in collaboration with Elly Tucker, has crafted fourteen songs to reinforce necessary and often lacking social skills such as saying ‘hello’ when you meet someone; taking turns; saying "excuse me" to get people's attention; and making eye contact. Lyrics are included and can be a tool for teaching social skills in a fun way.
Without rendering preschool favorites unfamiliar to little ears, and accompanied by the voices of children, Bollinger deftly gives them her own creative spin, adding new lyrics and musical surprises to "Patty Cake," "The Muffin Man," "The Wheels on the Bus" and other classics. Her own gentle songs, crafted with the same warmth and lilt, are just as accessible-and as easy on adult ears.