Summer Reading Program Grand Finale

Come to Reaney Park on Thursday, July 30 at 6:15 - 7:15 p.m. for the Summer Reading Program Grand Finale! Enjoy award-winning children's musician, Victor Johnson along with free ice cream for all the kids. This program is suitable for all ages. Bring the whole family!

Enjoy acoustic music for kids and families that will please the ear, soothe the heart, stimulate the imagination, get toes tapping, hands clapping, feet dancing and faces smiling. Everyone is in the band. Come on down and have yourself a good time.

Raised by folk and blues revivalists of the 60's, Victor grew up listening to the music of Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, John Hurt and Rev. Gary Davis. “We used to live in this house where all kinds of people would come over and make music in our living room. The music would go late into the night. I would sneak out of my room, make a bed in the hallway and listen to the music coming through the heating vent like radio. My shows are like it was when I was a kid. People getting together having fun making music, singing, dancing or just enjoying being in the middle of it all.”

In 2003 Victor started focusing on music for kids that the whole family could enjoy. Since then he has become one of the premier family acts in the Pacific Northwest and has a growing international reputation for making cool kid music.

Victor’s music has appeared in Nick Jr., Parenting, Blues Revue and Curious Parent magazines as well as NPR and children’s radio shows nationwide. He has won several awards including 2 Parents’ Choice Silver Awards for his Country Blues for Kids and Kid at Heart CDs. Victor has also been featured on Oregon Public Broadcasting’s Art Beat television series and appears on Putumayo Kids 2006 Folk Playground CD. Ireland’s premier Chip company Tayto Crisps, has chosen to use Victor’s version of “This Little Light of Mine” for their new t.v., radio and movie theater ads.

Victor performs extensively in the Pacific Northwest at festivals, schools, libraries and hospitals as a solo, duo or with a full acoustic band with some of the Northwest’s best musicians. Mandolin, steel guitar, clarinet and fiddle and string bass can sometimes be heard in the family band accompanying Victor’s guitar playing.