"I've been attending educational children's shows for 20 years
and she is the best. It's her talent and the way she treats the children."

-Chris Barash, Sinai Academy of The Berkshires

News Flash!
Mary Jo has been awarded a "Julie Andrews Artist-in-Residence Grant"
to bring her to Tatnuck Magnet School, Worcester, in 2010

A Variety Show! Listen to multicultural folktales, sing, dance in the aisles, listen to the fiddle, operate puppets, don costumes in instant story theater - all in one variety show! Mary Jo is an award-winning storyteller and musician whose trademarks are participation, laughter, downright joyfulness and many themes developed over a 17-year career of 3,000 shows. Learn why the Northampton, Massachusetts Center for the Arts calls her "a consummate artist."

2010 Calendar  

Mary Jo's Show Schedule
"You had the audience spellbound. I definitely understand why you have been asked to do thousands of programs."
- Nancy Jordan, Director of Children's Services New Britain Public Library

 


Summer 2010 Shows


A Little Green
Songs and Stories for the 2010 Massachusetts Summer Reading Club!

 

 

Would You Rather Be a Fish?

Songs and Stories for the 2010 Connecticut Summer Reading Club!

Mary Jo Maichack Summer Reading 09

Celebrate the Earth in stories and songs that enable the audience to have fun, feel wonder about the beautiful Earth and its creatures, and think about how much we love the place and want to take care of it!

This show is designed to be entertaining, to be able to engage and captivate the young listeners we see at libraries as well as their wise older siblings
and the tired grown-ups. It balances laugh-outloud funny with wonder and reflection. Your audience is invited to sing, dance, chant, drum (on their legs), add gestures and some froggy peeps, croaks & ribbits!

Highlights include:

* Kikosaburo Saves the Lake of the Croaking Frogs

* The Turnip

* The Tailor

* Songs, including the beautiful Native American song The Earth is Our Mother, Pete Seeger's My Rainbow Race and the Alligator Stomp (because alligators are green and audiences love to do the dance!)

 



Hurry for best choice of dates, many are already taken.

 

 

So, you want to make a splash with your
patrons at your library this summer?
No problem! Here’s a tried-and-true show that’s played to happy audiences for years.
What makes them love it? They are constantly invited to cocreate the show, comfortably as a group, dynamically as volunteer puppeteers, alligator stompers (this always cracks
up the crowd and frees adults to dance along), singers and chanters.

Volunteers operate beautiful sea puppets,
from the lovely jelly fish to an enormous shark (usually operated by a tiny person). Littlest kids love the rhythms, visual fun, older kids
love the subtext of the stories.

Best for ages 4 up but fine with siblings!

Highlights include:

* Why is the Sea Salty?

* The Unlucky Sailor Girl

plus sea chanteys and other watery tunes!

 

Show Info

 

Order these gifts children can enjoy again and again.

Missing the Muffin Man CD
 
A lonely 10-year-old girl, a missing street vendor,
body snatchers, the famous nursery song—

Listen to them come together in the thronging streets of Victorian London in this enchanting original story. >>Click Here for info

“A great companion piece to Dickens’s A Christmas Carol...”
--Linda Goodman, author, storyteller & reviewer, Hearsay

Order Muffin Man online now
Ages 8 to adult, 36.38 minutes- CD $12.00

 


Award-winning
Books Are Celebrations Available on CD



Books are Celebrations


Mary Jo Maichack's CD
Books are Celebrations

"This collection of clever and engaging songs
(folktales, fiddle tunes) and poems celebrates the joy
of letters, words, books and reading," says L.A. Parent,
and is called "interesting & useful" with Mary Jo Maichack's "beautiful voice."

"Books are Celebrations" won a 1999 Gold Award
from National Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA).

Order Books are Celebrations online now

or call 413-532-3667 or Email EmJay7@aol.com
USA/Wholesale inquiries invited.



 
Howlarious Halloween CD Available!!
 

Mary Jo Maichack's CD
"Howlarious Halloween, Ghost Stories,
Songs & Jokes from the Crypt"

for ages 6 and older

Ghost Stories, Songs & Jokes from the Crypt
You'll Giggle! You'll Shiver! You'll Jump!
Get Spooked with Eerie Stories - What goes hhiisstt whiiissssttt????

Order Howlarious Halloween online now

 

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