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Mike Rogers performs with harmonica and guitar
and is blind as a result of retinitis pigmentosa. He simultaneously draws
on thirty years of professional musicianship, fifteen years of teaching
secondary education and ten years of performing in schools from Maine to
Georgia and throughout the Bahamas. Mike is joined by his wife Beverly who
brings to the duo ten years of substitute teaching experience as well as
previous work as a children's storyteller for the public library system
in Peach County, Georgia.
Mike and Beverly offer harmonica workshops for special-needs students, as
well as the general population, age nine through adult. The students learn
a song, some techniques and they keep their own harmonicas. Most, if not
all, students come away with a feeling of accomplishment and self-worth.
Attitudes shift in each and every student, as they become absorbed with
the process of entering the world of music!
Mike and Beverly also perform motivational folk concerts for pre-school
through fifth grade as well as adult concerts, business and club banquets,
conferences and festivals. The audience participates through singing and
humor. Mike writes most of their music. The theme of the performance stresses
the recognition of us all as productive and happy human beings with feelings
and talents. Laced with humor and a powerful message this duo's original
songs will stay in your heart. They represented Very Special Arts/Maine
in the Arts and Soul Conference in Los Angeles, CA in May 1999. |
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