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KID-TESTED, PARENT-APPROVED, AND TEACHER RECOMMENDED !!!It’s been an interesting musical journey from being a song leader and camp counselor in the �"60’s” playing music for young children at summer camps, to the folk and rock music scene in the coffee houses and clubs along the Jersey Shore while attending Monmouth College in West Long Branch, to the West Coast clubs and the street music scene at Fisherman’s Wharf and Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco and graduating from San Francisco State University. It seems now as if it’s come full circle to do what Sam Massarsky has always enjoyed the most. Affectionately known as "Sam the Music Man" by hundreds of children and their parents, he's the pre-school �"Music Specialist” teaching classes at several Marin County pre-schools as well as a performer presenting children's music programs in the S.F. Bay area. When he observed the need and interest for more complex, challenging, and more �"sophisticated” songs in young children beyond �"Twinkle Twinkle” and the usual �"ABC” song, Sam knew it was time to create a program that challenged children in a manner that was fun and at the same time helped kids become more aware of their own musical capabilities. "One of the most important things we can do as teachers (and parents) is to help recognize and create interesting and challenging opportunities for our kids," Sam says, "My music sessions are not set up as just a classroom activity, but as an experience for the kids (and me) to grow and develop in. Within each music session that combines entertainment with an underlying lesson plan that actually includes music theory, harmony, rhythm and rhyme...is an opportunity for each child's creativity to emerge." In his classes, kids learn about manners, and playing, and friendships, and respect, and dinosaurs, and the ABC's, and other "kid essentials" ...

Dee first became interested in guitar while in elementary school. One of his classmates could listen to a song on the radio and play it back on his guitar. Watching his classmate play fascinated Dee and he wanted to emulate his classmate. Dee received his first guitar as a Christmas present from his Grandmother. Dee immediately started taking lessons with the hopes of one day being able to play like B.B. King.Dee continued to advance with his playing skills and while still in high school,he decided to form his own group named 'Foreplay'. The group played all over Detroit and attracted the attention of producer Quincy Jones who offered them a record deal. Dee declined to be a part of the deal due to a conflict with ...