Dulcimer Preformance

by Renee Owen | Apr 26, 2010 | News

For the past month Rainbow Mountain students have been learning alongside Asheville artist preparing for Imagine! An Asheville Arts Extravaganza. Fine artist, performance artist, and musicians have been all over campus. Jon Cooley is a little of all three and he is working with fourteen fourth through sixth-graders. First he taught them how to make a dulcimer and now they are learning how to play it.

Yesterday the Rainbow Mountain Dulcimer Players put on a performance at Barnes & Noble in the Asheville Mall. They started with the first song they learned on the dulcimers, Mary Had a Little Lamb. They also entertained us with This Land is Our Land, and Ode to Joy as well as Groundhog and other songs.

It was a great show and we look forward to seeing them on stage May 20th at Imagine!

Kingsley Pugh – Parasols and Solar Panels

by Renee Owen | Apr 16, 2010 | News

The sun was out all week, a rarity for an Asheville spring, and Kingsley Pugh took full advantage of it. He invited any interested Rainbow students to paint, outside, on paper parasols. And although the kids thought it all great fun it was more than that. Kingsley will be selling the colorful parasols at this weekend’s earthday festival. Proceeds from the sale will fund four solar panels on Rainbow Mountain’s “new” building. Kingsley’s company Harvest The Sun  is donating the labor.