"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

"Beyond my wildest dreams."
~ Jean Reardon, Sabis International School

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."

 
Missing the Muffin Man
Missing the Muffin Man CD Wins NAPPA (National Parenting Publications Awards) Honor Award!
Read more about this prestigious honor for Mary Jo's CD.

 

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

 

New Summer Reading Club Shows

And check out these photos from the Summer 2007 Reading Club Shows

A Feast of Beastiesturtle
for the
"Wild Reads @ Your Library" Theme
(Massachusetts)


A Show of Folktales, Tunes and
Act-it-Out Costume Fun
Celebrating Wild Animals


Have fun with this new program for Wild Reads @ Your Library this summer. MJ sings, plays guitar and tells wonderfully selected tales. It's funny, fun and, as always, super-interactive, keeping little ones to elders happily engaged.


lion

Hear Rudyard Kipling's How the Camel Got His Hump and Flap Along to the charming Celtic song Leather-winged Bat.

Participants will also act out a story in costume, hear about a mother who dared to pluck a whisker from a tiger’s chin and find out about the Lost Horse in a story from Tibet.

Book this show today!

camel




 

for the
"
Catch the Reading Bug" Theme
(
Connecticut)


"Stinkbug Bugaloo" is a one-person variety
show co-created with the audience in
celebration of bugs.

The program entertains
all ages with a mix of songs and folktales
led by Maichack, and includes
audience-participants in gorgeous
headdresses, acting out a funny
Anansi story.

Check out the details and some cool bug
photos you can use to promote your show on
the show info page!

Show Info



Wild Weird and Creepy Tales for Teens


MJ tells classic urban legends such as the vanishing hitchhiker,
the blue satin dress, the hook & more...







 


Award-Winning Books are Celebrations
Now Available as a CD!


   

"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.




 
New CD Release! Missing the Muffin Man
 
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

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

 
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

 

Click on show for info, fliers and press releases


 

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