This is a song I put together with the kids from Natasha Osvald and Stefani Wulkan’s 5th grade classes at Raskob Day School in Oakland. In honor of Martin Luther King Jr., these two excellent teachers had the kids write a sentence or two on the theme “I have a dream…”. Then I started working with them to develop a song which could fit under their ‘dreams’. This is the result, featuring a grand total of 17 kids on instruments as varied as djembes, bodhrans, doumbeks, shekeres, one-shot shakers, seedpods, and xylophone. When I mixed the song I added some beach sounds to cover the hiss from recording in the classroom, and a low synthesizer for some bottom end.Most exciting of all, the kids are downloading this song onto their own mp3 players, so they can get nearly instant feedback on their own music. I’m expecting rapid improvements from this experiment, and later on I’ll have plenty more songs with kids from grades 3 to 8. Download Free