Rootlets is a “bring your own baby” singing group that meets every week during term time in the John Edwards room at Y Plas, Machynlleth on Friday mornings from 11-12.
All carers and all ages of children are welcome.
Booking essential.
We’ll sing a mixture of children’s and “grown-up” songs, with repertoire from my Thursday choir (Rooted Voices).
Please note:
All adults must be accompanied by a child.
Bookings are intended to be for families: you can book a block and switch the adult who comes with the child each time (also fine for both parents/carers to attend with one child). You can also bring siblings free of charge.
If you share childcare with friends and want to bring children from more than one family along, that’s also OK, as long as you can responsibly and reliably look after all the children you bring with you.
Each child from a separate family should have a separate booking.
I recommend a ratio of 1 adult to 2 children if both are under 4.
To come along, please book a half term block.
LISTEN
Here are some albums I made especially for children. The first features songs in both English and Portuguese, from when I was living at a community and working in their home school in Portugal. There, the children have names for their different stages of development, rather than being separated in classes: from seeds, to flowers, to caterpillars, to butterflies, to dragons. They go from stage to stage in a special growing ritual, for which the teachers there asked me to write the songs. There's a song for each stage, plus one about a bee written for when they were studying bees and wanted a vegan song about bees that didn't involve honey, and another about lunchtime, because that's an important part of the day!
I’m working on getting these songs translated to Welsh.
The second album is a little EP that contains four of my favourite lullabies for children.
Both of these albums are free to download from Bandcamp.