OXFORD – Kick off Summer Reading Programs at the Oxford Memorial Library on Thursday, June 27 at 6:00 pm with a musical storytelling performance.

Green Golly and Her Golden Flute performed by Barbara Siesel and Keith Torgan is a one of a kind show which brings together the arts of storytelling and classical music. This is a show the whole family will enjoy.

You probably know Rapunzel couldn’t wait to get out of the tower! Green Golly – is so enthusiastic that everything that whizzes by her window inspires her to sing! Unfortunately, she has a terrible voice –so the witch gives her a golden flute hoping to stop the racket. Being that the girl is stuck in the tower all day long with nothing to do – she practices – until she becomes an  amazing  flutist!

Ultimately she escapes the tower and goes on tour – but not before practicing so much that she misses meeting the Prince, plays her first duet with the unbelievably old and incredibly wrinkled Vlotek the Gypsy, wrangles with the wackiest of witches and learns wisdom from Mousey Tongue – the tiny philosopher who lives in the walls of children’s rooms and comes out when all seems lost.

Barbara  Siesel  is a flutist, educator, producer and entrepreneur. Her artistic journey to flute mastery has been a spiritual one. On this journey she’s the co-founder of the Award Winning Green Golly, an organization established to introduce children to classical music through live  
interdisciplinary performances, curricula, books, sheet music, flutes and meaningful education. 

Keith Torgan  is a singer, songwriter, guitarist, actor, author, teacher, storyteller and  visual artist; a multi-talented artist with more than twenty years of experience in children’s music who has appeared at hundreds of theaters, cabarets, universities, museums, schools, and libraries throughout the United States and around the world. As composer Torgan created scores for The Tempest and Ring Round the Moon at the Williamstown Theater Festival, as a solo cabaret artist Torgan has performed in such noted New York venues as The Knitting Factory. Torgan was the founder and songwriter for “Morgan, Torgan & Teri;” guest performer and writer for BMG’s Early Ears” series, and composer and lyricist for the Simply Elementary flagship program, “There’s Always a Dragon to Slay”. He has written a multitude of songs and is the author of all the Green Golly stories including the Parents’ Choice Gold Award/Family Choice Award Winning Green Golly & Her Golden Flute. 

Kids and Adults will be able to sign up for our Summer Reading Programs beginning on June 27. Throughout the month of July kids can visit the library to have their reading logs check and win prizes! Adults can fill out tickets for each book they have read to be entered in weekly drawings for limited edition Oxford Memorial Library Tote Bags! There will be youth activities on Friday mornings at 10:30am July 5 through August 2 at the library.

- From the Oxford Library