California Road Show 2025
Mark your calendars—West Music is headed back to California this summer for more workshop and pop-up store opportunities! Whether it’s your first, fifth, or fifteenth year of teaching, come spend a day getting a jumpstart on fantastic active-music-making experiences for your students!
Join us for Drumming and More in the PreK and Elementary Music Room! at three locations:
Paul and Melissa will take participants on a hands-on journey to explore activities and extensions for use with PreK-5th grade students, including introductory information from the World Music Drumming Curriculum. Explore pedagogical concepts of the curriculum and experience ready-to-use lessons, including exploratory and foundation-building activities, ensembles with singing and movement, sound stories, skill-building games, and program ideas. Using drums, percussion, and other classroom instruments - such as Orff instruments, recorder, ukulele - and the curriculum key words of respect, listen, focus, teamwork, complement, and more, we will show how group drumming in the preK through elementary classroom helps students not only become stronger music students, but stronger students in all aspects of learning and better members of a cooperative classroom community.
Our pop-up store will be accompanied by Liz Hartley, a West Music Sales Consultant. She will help you discover how to best outfit your classroom. |
About Paul Corbiére
Paul Corbiére has taught Elementary General Music for 30 years in Florida and Iowa, where he is currently a 4th-5th grade Music Teacher at East Ridge Elementary in the Clear Creek Amana School District. Paul received his BFA in Music Education from Florida Atlantic University and his MM in Percussion Performance from The Ohio State University. He has been a member of the World Music Drumming Teaching Staff since 1999, and is the cofounder of the Beat For Peace program, combining World Music Drumming and Resiliency Research for students with multiple risk factors. Paul has been a featured clinician at a number of Music Education Association Conferences, AOSA Conferences, and for the European Council of International Schools. Paul is a consultant for the Just Play It! Classroom Harmonica Method, and is a contributor author to Use Your Ukes. He is the author of Skins, Sticks & Bars, Happy Jammin’, and From Bags to Riches, resources that feature instrumental ensembles for the elementary music classroom.
About Melissa Blum
Melissa Blum has over 35 years’ experience teaching music at the pre-K, elementary, middle school, and adult levels in both public school and private studio/group class settings. She is Executive Vice President of Operations at West Music where she first became involved with the World Music Drumming workshops in 2004 and has worked in various areas throughout West Music to help music educators experience the impact of the curriculum for themselves and their students. She has been a member of the World Music Drumming Faculty since 2009, creating the curriculum and teaching the Drumming Up the Fun! workshop, for teachers of children ages 3-8. Melissa has facilitated World Music Drumming ensembles as a team-building exercise at a variety of corporate and community events for children and adults, and is a frequent clinician for music education conferences, Orff chapter workshops, daycare/preschool providers, public school professional development events, and ECMM educators on the topic of incorporating developmentally appropriate music activities in the pre-k- grade 2 classroom setting.