Cello Stories: Songs, music and stories from Beanstalk Arts

Beanstalk Arts
Cello Stories: Songs, music and stories from Beanstalk Arts

Join Becky and her cello and ukulele (and a little help from Boris the Bird) as we delve on a different musical storytelling adventure every episode. Bring your musical instruments, make sure you have some room to dance, jump and move, and let's go! If you're really enjoying our podcast, you can buy us a virtual coffee at https://ko-fi.com/beanstalkarts and this will go towards helping us find the time for season 2 in the autumn!

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  1. 22.07.2022 · БОНУСНЫЙ КОНТЕНТ

    Cello Stories Bedtime Special: Stone Soup, a sleepy story!

    Before we launch Season 2 of our Cello Stories podcast over summer '22, here's a very special bonus episode, made for bedtime, in what we're calling a 'Cello SNORE-ies' tale of Boris the Bird helping unite a village of grumpy animals by helping them cook a delicious meal of 'stone soup' together! It's full of cello tunes and ukulele songs, with me, Becky from Beanstalk Arts telling the tale. This bonus episode focusses more on the quieter songs, ending with some gentle lullabies and we really hope it'll help your little folk drift away to sleep. This was actually a special request from my youngest, Martha, as she often listens to our podcast at bedtime, so I wanted to make a special tale without all the energetic tunes!  If you're new to the podcast, why not check back to season 1 for a host of more energetic stories, and we're busy making season 2 at the moment, when I'll be joined by some special musical guests to introduce their instruments to tell the tales... We're keeping these podcasts free for everyone to access and free from adverts, BUT if you're enjoying them, and would like to help us find the time to make more episodes, we would be super grateful for your support! Please do review and share, and you can support this podcast by buying us a virtual coffee over at our 'ko-fi' page at https://ko-fi.com/beanstalkarts or head over to our website www.beanstalkarts.co.uk where you can book in for a real life class, or buy a copy of an album or an instrument or puppet from our online shop. In real life, we're based in SE London and run regular preschooler classes and weekend gigs and events, or you can often find me, Becky, popping up at various arts centres, schools and museums and libraries welding a cello and ukulele :) I'm available for hire for school visits and other collaborations, so do feel free to get in touch at becky@beanstalkarts.co.uk  Here is a little more info on the songs in today's podcast: - Hello and Welcome to Beanstalk Arts (our original song) - how we start all our sessions  - Boris the Bird - Sleepy version (our original song) ! Unlike our usual upbeat squawky song, today Boris the Bird is yawwwwwwning!  - Storytime Song (by Becky)  as featured in our first album 'Story Songs' - Row Your Boat (trad)- the instrument you can hear in this is the sansula, and this is the recording from our second album 'Kindness is Contagious' - Round and Round (by Becky) - excerpt - also from 'Kindness is Contagious' - 'Little Ripples' - we often use the lycra in our real life classes for this song, in today's recording I'm playing the amazing tongue drum I have borrowed from my friend Sharon  - Little Birds - another one from our album 'Kindness is Contagious' - we often like to dance with our scarves for this song - Lullaby - an original Beanstalk Arts tune from our first album - I See the Moon - a traditional song I often sing for my girls at bedtime. I've experimented with a 'low G' on the ukulele for today's recording to try and give a mellower sound. I really hope you enjoy today's podcast, I've loved making it for you, and I'll back very soon with our regular season 2 stories.

    32 мин.
  2. 27.08.2021

    Red Riding Hood: Beanstalk Arts Cello Stories

    This week we're adventuring again into the deep dark woods, this time with Red Riding Hood (and a little help from my cello, Boris the Bird and my ukulele!).  I'm super grateful this week to have borrowed (with permission) some songs from some fabulous fellow musicians! The wonderful 'Stomping in the Woods' is by Ruti Lachs of Active Music, and features in her album 'Stomping in the Woods' that me and my kids LOVE.  Ruti has made some lovely online workshops around these songs too - you can find the full album of songs at https://www.activemusic.ie/stomping-in-the-woods-cd.html (utterly well worth an addition to your family music collection) and find her videos on her YouTube channel, with 'Stomping in the Wood' explored here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glEooEY-IYI I've also again sung the 'Washing Machine' song by Steve Grocott - if you know me in real life, you'll know this is a firm favourite for a bit of a dance, and one we also learn in our after school ukulele classes. Find Steve's original version at bandcamp (and all of his albums are also GREAT for families, and car journey tonic) at https://stevegrocott.bandcamp.com.  I do hope you enjoy this weeks' podcast! If you're local to me in SE London, do remember you can join us in real life this Autumn, with a whole host of new classes starting in September with preschooler, after school and grown up ukulele classes. You can listen to our music on Spotify at 'Becky, Boris and the Beats' and find out more on the website at www.beanstalkarts.co.uk Please do share this with your friends and leave a review if you've enjoyed the podcast!

    29 мин.
  3. 28.07.2021

    The Frog Princess: Beanstalk Arts Cello Stories

    Reena the Princess just doesn't like being a princess, there's far too much sitting still, being quiet and keeping clean, and her mum and dad just can't understand why she'd prefer life as a frog, hopping around in the garden! It turns out, with a bit of magic help from her fairy God-Boris-the-Bird, she finds a way to try the amphibious life-style, and - boy - it's just as good as she thought!  But...will she find a way to live happily and happily ever after, and will her mum and dad find a way to accept that their daughter loves life as a frog? (Spoiler alert - YEP, phew!) This week's story is from Becky with some help from her cello and ukulele, recorded originally in my spare room in the winter lockdown for our wonderful Beanstalk Arts supporters on Patreon, it's now free for anyone to listen too. Songs include our 'little green frog' song, 'everyone is playing along with me', 'little birds' and 'dig in the garden', we have 30 minutes of music, dancing and song (and do remember to check out past episodes if you enjoyed this one!). Beanstalk Arts is a SE London based organisation, we have real life cello stories classes starting back from the 16th August 2021, plus lots of ukulele classes for grown ups and children alike, and you can find out more and book in at our website at www.beanstalkarts.co.uk You can stream our music on Spotify by searching for 'Becky, Boris and the Beats'. This is a free podcast for all, and there will be a new story landing every Wednesday over the summer holidays, but if you're really enjoying it, you can support us by buying Becky a virtual coffee at https://ko-fi.com/beanstalkarts or picking up a musical instrument bag in our online shop, and we hope to be launching season 2 in the Autumn!

    31 мин.

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Join Becky and her cello and ukulele (and a little help from Boris the Bird) as we delve on a different musical storytelling adventure every episode. Bring your musical instruments, make sure you have some room to dance, jump and move, and let's go! If you're really enjoying our podcast, you can buy us a virtual coffee at https://ko-fi.com/beanstalkarts and this will go towards helping us find the time for season 2 in the autumn!

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