School-age songwriters
SUN PHOTO BY ANNE KLOCKENKEMPER, annek@sun-herald.com
Adam Ezra, lead singer of the Adam Ezra Group of Boston, Mass., speaks with Heron Creek Middle School sixth-grade language arts students Monday morning. Ezra and his band worked with the students to write a short song and encouraged the kids to think about writing in a different way.
SUN PHOTO BY ANNE KLOCKENKEMPER, annek@sun-herald.com
Heron Creek Middle School sixth-grade language arts students broke into groups to write four lines of a 16-line song, which the Adam Ezra Group then performed.
SUN PHOTO BY ANNE KLOCKENKEMPER, annek@sun-herald.com
Adam Ezra sings the song HCMS sixth-grade language arts students wrote. In the background, Adam Ezra Group member Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki plays the fiddle while Michael James, HCMS principal, and Steve Smith, HCMS assistant principal, look on and laugh.
NORTH PORT — Students at Heron Creek Middle School experienced the power of writing in a new way Monday, working with the Adam Ezra Group to put their language arts studies into an entirely new context.
The group was scheduled to work with three sets of students and perform a concert for the school Monday afternoon. Based in Boston, lead singer Ezra and his eponymous band have toured with Rusted Root, The Avett Brothers, Jason Mraz, The Goo Goo Dolls, Blues Traveler, Los Lobos, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Dwight Yoakam and more.
