Laura Sabini grew up in a musical family where parties became jam sessions. She has sung various types of music including gospel, classical, a cappella, but her heart lies in jazz. A graduate of Trinity College in Psychology, Laura focused on counseling children. While living in Italy Laura teamed up with Mirko Tani, a jazz pianist. Upon returning to USA, Laura and Mirko created Groovy Baby, combining their love of children with their passion for music. Using their original jazz and blues songs, they taught interactive music education throughout the Boston area. With the success of Groovy Baby Laura was eager to train with the Center for Music and Young Children and began teaching Music Together^® in 2000. When not performing for children, Laura and Mirko perform as a Jazz duo. Their lives are full of music, and kids too!
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PARENTS' PRAISE FOR LAURA & MIRKO

Sharon Simon, mother of two, knows first hand the benefit of incorporating music into children’s daily lives. Her children, Sophia, 7 years old, and Max, 5 years old, are happiest playing instruments and dancing around the house as Sharon plays piano, and her husband, Ira, plays bass. Her extensive music background in classical piano, flute, and voice, and her experience in dance and musical theater enriches each of her Music Together® classes. A versatile singer and gifted teacher, Sharon has sung gospel, blues, taught piano, and choreographed variety shows. You can currently catch Sharon performing alongside fellow GroovyBabyMusic teacher Vanessa TrienSharon sings & her husband Ira plays bass in Vanessa's band "The Jumpin' Monkeys" as they perform songs from Vanessa's acclaimed children's album, Hot Air Balloon. In the Music Together® classroom, her exuberant energy is contagious; it’s obvious to all that Sharon is a natural!
PARENTS' PRAISE FOR SHARON!

Vanessa Trien comes to the Music Together® family after 13 years of experience performing as a singer and songwriter and working in the field of music education. After earning her Masters from Harvard University, she taught music at Cambridge Montessori School. Recently, she has produced various arts festivals around the Boston area. Now a mother herself, of 5 year old Ellis, and baby Laila, Vanessa is excited to share her love of music with families in the community. Check out Vanessa's CD of her original music, entitled, "Wash Away," at vanessatrien.com Vanessa enrichens her classes with her original kids songs. Her fabulous CD's of children’s music has won numerous awards and praise from parents and children alike. Check out HOT AIR BALLOON Vanessa's second CD, "Carnival Day" has also gotten rave reviews!
PARENTS' PRAISE FOR VANESSA

Michael Glashow grew up with music and dance all around him. Between his mother, a dancer, his father, a drummer, and his two sisters who played piano, flute and saxophone, there was always someone singing, playing, or dancing. While at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Michael was the music director for the award winning a cappella group the Vocal Suspects. After earning his Bachelor of Arts in music, he taught music at the Academy of Public Service. Currently Michael can be seen around the Boston area playing his guitar and piano, or singing with his all male vocal group Inner D. Making music with his niece and nephew inspired Michael to explore teaching children. The combination of his calm manner, sweet vocals and guitar playing, and overal enthusiasm make him a wonderful addition to our team. He is very excited to share his love of music, and life with everyone in the Groovy Baby Music family. PARENTS' PRAISE FOR MICHAEL!

Julie Rama has spent most of her life surrounded by music. She grew up in a
family of musicians, and was staging renditions of "The Sound of Music" in
her livingroom by age 5. After college, she was on her way to becoming an
opera singer, when she realized that she wanted to use her musical talents
in other ways. She recorded a CD of original songs and began performing at
clubs around the Boston area. Meanwhile, she also took a teaching position
at Echo Falls Preschool in Newton, MA, realizing that she could use music to
inspire and educate her preschoolers. Over the next eight years, Julie
learned many different ways to talk about and involve the children in music.
Her funky and downright goofy style is contagious; it helps her to draw her
students in and allows them to express their own musical creativity.
Currently, Julie is the music specialist at Echo Falls, plays in a folk/funk
band called Smooch, and spends lots of time "rocking out" with her 3 year
old son, Elias, and new baby, Kai. PARENTS' PRAISE FOR JULIE!

Erin feels lucky to have found what she wanted to do with her life at a very young age. Coming from a family that made music a priority, she was always encouraged to take lessons, starting with piano, later the oboe and finally voice. She always felt that singing was the most fun and expressive and so she went onto the Ohio State University as a vocal performance and music education major. At OSU she was involved in musical theater and light opera performances, as well as traditional and gospel choirs. Since then she has taught all ages, both privately and in groups, focusing on piano and voice. A few years ago she moved to Boston to study contemporary singing and songwriting at the Berklee College of Music and has lived here since graduating in December 2006. She sings with a funk/R&B band called Beantown Project, continues to write original songs and also to teach music to all ages. She is very excited to start working with Groovy Baby Music and looks forward to helping kids become expressive and creative with music! PARENTS' PRAISE FOR ERIN!

Kelly Sabini, choreographer, is a former Teaching Associate in Movement at Boston University´s School for the Arts, Theatre Department from 1994 to 1999. A Fulbright Fellow in Dance Anthropology (1994 - 1996), she conducted research on cultural values and gender as revealed through the sacred dances of Candomblé in Bahia, Brazil. She holds an MFA in Dance & Choreography, from Smith College (1993); and a BA in Performance Arts - Theatre (with a concentration in Voice), from Barnard College, Columbia University (1987); with extensive and diverse additional studies in movement, theatre and voice.

A resident of Brasília since 1999, she dedicated herself exclusively for five years to raising her three infant daughters (two of whom are twins). Through movement and music experiences shared with her daughters, Kelly began developing a bilingual approach to the teaching of music and movement to infants and children, emphasizing play, improvisation rhythm and song. This resulted in the development of A Criança Creativa-The Creative Child Project, an educational project conceived and implemented to attend to children’s needs for self-discovery and expression, as well as to satisfy parents´ desire for their child’s early exposure to multiple languages and music. The project’s methodology maximizes a child’s learning potential by exposing them to music, movement, visual arts, and language.
Exposure through her work with A Criança Creativa-The Creative Child Project led her to be contracted by the School of the Nations, a bi-lingual, private school in Brasília, Brazil, to implement this multi-lingual, multi-disciplinary approach to early childhood education into their ECE Program, as well as teach in the classroom setting.
On leave from her teaching in Brazil, she is in Boston, with her children, and looks forward to joining her sister Laura’s dynamic team of teachers of GroovyBaby Music! Many of Laura's students know her already as the singer/songwriter who wrote "The Nappy Song" at the young age of 12, which we often use in our Music Together classes as a lullaby!
PARENTS' PRAISE FOR KELLY!

You could say KC Immler has been musical since the day she was born. After all, she shares a birthday with Mozart, and just like him, began studying piano at age four. Although that's where their similarities end, it seems she was destined for a career in music! KC has been immersed in the arts from a very young age in both music and dance, spending most of her free time in lessons and classes. KC was accepted on full scholarship to the University of North Carolina’s School of the Arts high school program to study piano for both her junior and senior years of high school. Upon graduation from the program at UNCSA she decided that she wanted to use her musical talent to help others, which led her to study at Queens University in Charlotte, NC where she received a B.M in Music Therapy and a minor in Psychology. It was through her studies there that she discovered her love for working with children with special needs. During her time at Queens, KC also expanded her musical knowledge by gaining proficiency in guitar and voice. KC completed her music therapy internship at an intensive seven month program in Atlanta, GA working as a Music Therapist in the Fulton County School System, where she taught a wide range of children aged preschool to 12th grade with disabilities including but not limited to, autism, orthopedic impairments, and emotional and behavioral disabilities. KC holds a board certification in Music Therapy, and is an active member of the American Music Therapy Association. Studying at the Center for Music and Young Children, she found that the Music Together program was the perfect complement to her love of music and working with children. She is very excited to be a new member of the Groovy Baby Music family and share her love for both music and children!

Eric Bloom is a 29-yr old trumpet player that hails from Bristol, RI. In 2001 Eric enrolled at the New England Conservatory of Music and while there, studied under Wynton Marsalis, Charles Schulter, Danilo Perez. After a couple of years of college, he was asked to do a 3-month contract to play aboard the famous Queen Mary 2, and has done 9 cruise ships since then.

After finishing cruise ships, Eric has performed at many of America’s most prestigious musical institutions such as the Blue note, Carnegie Hall, The Fillmore, and the Newport Jazz Festival. Along the way, Eric has also had the opportunity to perform for such luminaries as Larry David, Justin Timberlake, Bill Murray, The Rev. Al Sharpton, George Bush Sr., Joe Biden, the Gore family, and the Clinton family.

More recently, Eric has been a member of the Diane Birch band, a highly acclaimed singer-songwriter. With Diane, he has done tours in the US, Asia, and Europe and has been featured on national T.V. shows including the Today Show, David Letterman Show, Craig Ferguson Show, Carson Daly Show, Jimmy Kimmel Show, and the Conan O’Brian Show.

Since 2001, Eric has been a teaching piano and brass at many New England public and private schools. In addition, Eric and his wife travel to Australia twice a year, to visit her family and to work with the "Skat Kats", a children's musical group that was created to help raise money for the Sydney Children’s Hospital Randwick, which supports children with brain tumors. Eric is finishing a bachelor's degree in music education at Rhode Island College. He has plans to get a masters degree in elementary education.

Eric is excited to teach for GroovyBabyMusic and we are thrilled to have such a proficient
jazz musician on our team! http://ericbloommusic.com/

Barbara Brousal is a singer and songwriter who recorded and toured for seven years with the family folk band, Dan Zanes and Friends. Her original composition, “Queremos Bailar,” appears on their Grammy nominated album House Party. She has also released three CDs of original material, Breathing Down Your Neck (‘96), Pose While It Pops (‘00), and Just About Perfect (‘02). Barbara taught Spanish for 12 years in New York City before moving to Massachusetts. She now lives in Newton with her harmonica playing daughter, drum playing step-daughter and banjo learning husband. Check out Barbara's Music Here!