These participatory adventures combine music with other arts to encourage imagination, cooperation, and individual expression. Music, the universal language, is simply this artist's vehicle for showing young people that they are loved.

People of all ages, backgrounds and personal circumstances derive benefit and enjoyment. The emphasis is on fun.

Schools may wish to have just a one-day visit for an assembly performance, or they may schedule multi-day artist residencies that include individual classroom workshops plus assembly shows as a grand finale. At elementary level it is generally best to have separate assemblies for younger and older kids, which can be done in one day.

The "Tall Tale Conversations" story game transports the children into the world of imagination. All that is needed for this is a dedicated space with two six foot tables and enough room for a class to sit in a half circle on the floor. Sessions last about an hour. Scheduling several classrooms per day, an entire school can participate.

The artist uses as many as three dozen world instruments to facilitate and enhance a fantasy story which the children themselves make up together. Each child invents a piece of the story and gets to be the musician's boss, picking the instrument he plays to illustrate the story with sound. Depending on age, students may also use acting, dancing, drawing and vocal or instrumental improvising to illustrate each other's story lines. In the case of multi-day residencies, the last day's assembly shows introduce yet more instruments, bringing the total to about fifty unusual international sounds never that most adults have never experienced! This is a one-man music festival.

For older students (4th grade and up) the added element of improv acting has proven to be wildly popular, doubling the fun, as everyone gets to do both storytelling and acting. In this fast-moving, dynamic exercise, the results are frequently hilarious as class members challenge and top one another creatively. Sometimes students collaborate spontaneously in crafting group ensemble scenes. All the while, The Improvisator provides a fluid musical mood, moving from instrument to instrument as he matches the mental gymnastics of the storytellers and the physicality of the actors with appropriate sounds.

At the secondary school level, fine and performing arts classes use their specific fields of study to embellish their spontaneous narrations: acting in drama classes, movement in dance classes, lightning drawing in fine arts classes, vocal and musical improvisation in chorus and band classes. This encourages being in the moment, doing art for its own sake, and loosening up the creative spirit within each artist. Even sensitive life issues can be comfortably explored in this way.

Also available to secondary schools, the artist's "Sound Explorations" use percussion to feel the nonverbal language of rhythm. A school's own percussion instruments may be employed, or the artist can furnish his own extensive array of international drums and shakers. Drumming harmonizes mind and body. In a group each person may learn to shine as a valued part of the interwoven whole.