Mike Whitla CD release Concert
Mike Whitla is very happy to announce that he has completed his 2^nd children's CD!
It's Time For Some "Early Morning Knee-Slappin' Tunes!"Mike would love to celebrate and share the music with everybody, so you're all invited to the CD release concert on:
Saturday, December 4^th, 2004!
Tickets: $15 for Adults and $5 for Children (Including GST)Tickets are available for purchase from your Rainbow Songs instructors or by calling 416 535 5247.
Phone orders subject to $5 S&H charges.
Please extend an invite to your family and friends to dance, sing and celebrate together.
The new CD will be available for purchase for $20 (incl PST and GST). At the concert there will be a special offer where if you buy 5 CDs you get one free.
Over the past 4 years, Mike has dedicated much of his time to writing, composing, and recording this cd and we think you will really enjoy it.
For MP3 sound samples please go to:
http://www.deepdownproductions.com/artists/mike.shtml
Featured performers include:
Jessica Vigars (vocals)
Kevin Cooke (Bass)
David Monis (Drums)
Isax (Alto Sax)
Stuart Elliot (Bari Sax)
When: December the 4^th, 2004 @ 3:00 p.m.
Where: Cecil St. Community Centre 58 Cecil St. (One block south of College east of Spadina)
There area limited number of seats available so please if you are interested in coming get your tickets soon!!

Rainbow Songs gets a new address
Our office is now set up in our terrific new location. Please note our new mailing address:

Rainbow Songs Inc.
182 Wright Avenue, Unit 3
Toronto, ON
M6R 1L2

New Location Added May 2004
We've added a fifth location starting with our Spring 2004 session: our newest location will be at Avenue Road and St. Clair (First Unitarian Church, 175 St. Clair Ave West). Classes will be held at the St. Clair location on Wednesdays and Mike and Joel will be the instructors.

Rainbow Songs Instruments Now Available!
Have you ever wondered where you can get the nifty instruments that we use in Rainbow Songs classes? When learning to play music, it's important for children to have good quality, age-appropriate instruments like the ones we use in class. With that in mind, we're now offering instruments for sale - ones which we think are high quality and well-designed for infants, toddlers, and young children. Groove all week long playing songs you've learned in class! Click to check out our instruments.

Holidays in 2004
The following days are holidays during the Spring 2004 session (March 22nd - June 25th), and there will be no classes on these days: Friday, April 9th (Good Friday), Monday, April 12th (Easter Monday), and Monday, May 24th (Victoria Day).

During the summer session, there are no classes on the Civic Holiday, Monday, August 2nd.

Gamelan Group open to children grades 5 - 13
If you have children who are the right age for this, it is a lot of fun. Gamelan is an indigenous Indonesian orchestra composed largely of pitched percussion instruments.

The name, Sekar Sunu Laras, comes from Bapak Effendi, Consul­General for the Republic of Indonesia’s Consulate in Toronto. Loosely translated it means Flowering Youth: Venerable Essence of Gamelan. The gist of this meaning highlights an important interpretation of Javanese philosophy. Children are precious in Javanese culture and like flowers they grow, blossom, and bring beauty. In the beauty of sound that comes from gamelan, one understands the importance of harmony ­ harmony in thoughts and feelings, harmony with others, and being in harmony with oneself. It is hoped that these children partake in the lessons of harmony coming from this venerated musical tradition.

Sekar Sunu Laras’s mandate is to promote the enjoyment of playing and performing on the Indonesian gamelan orchestra as well as to foster, develop, and showcase the creativity that all children have. Membership is open to children and youths from grades 5 ­ 13.

Sekar Sunu Laras is Canada’s first community gamelan group for children and youths. The group is based in Toronto, Ontario. It rehearses weekly at the Indonesia Consulate on their resplendent gamelan orchestra, Kyai Muncar Manis.

For more information please contact Nur Intan Murtadza, Artistic Director, at nmurtadza@hotmail.com.