Hello Everybody

A Few Words From Rachel: "I have been performing for children since I was twelve! I sang at kids' birthday parties with my guitar. At the time I was deeply involved in theater performance and felt this was a great way to earn money. How I went from theater and singing at birthdays to where I am now...it's a long story... However, one thing that has had a deep influence on my music was having children of my own. In this world of ever more commercialized and technical music, and art of all kinds, I hope that children will feel, from listening to my recordings and singing along with me, that they can make music, that music is theirs. They don't need music lessons or instruments, they don't need cool clothes or cool sets. They've got everything they need in their own hearts, bodies, and imaginations as long as they let out their song. A song is something that you can share; it's something that you can take with you anywhere because it doesn't weigh anything; a song doesn't break or wear out; and a song doesn't cost anything either! So SING! SING! SING!" ABOUT RACHEL: Rachel Buchman, nationally beloved recording artist, performer and teacher, was born in New York, studied at the Dalcroze School of Music in Manhattan, The Levin School of Music in Washington, DC., and graduated from Vassar College. She has appeared in Atlanta, Boston, Houston and throughout Texas, New York, and Washington, DC, and has taught music to children in England, Berlin and Israel. She has presented teacher workshops nationally, at conferences and at many educational institutions. Rachel's experiences living in Europe and Israel, and her extensive travels in the United States, have made her sensitive to the power music has to help children understand themselves and the world. She brings music, which is becoming ever more commercialized, technical, and over produced, back to the voices and dancing bodies of children. Through her performances with Young Artists, Rachel reaches thousands of school children. She lives in Houston with her husband, Harvey, her son Jacob, and her daughter Judith, and their menagerie.