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Pam Donkin
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Pam with her Tamborine

Award-Winning Music
for Children & Families

Pam is an award-winning children's performer and children's recording artist on the acclaimed children's record label A Gentle Wind and has appeared nationally in concerts, schools, libraries, and on television and radio. Her music has been licensed to various projects including Scholastic, Inc, and video soundtracks and her video Music is Magic has been broadcast on The Learning Channel. She makes her home on the San Francisco Peninsula and is host of the children's television show, Kaleidoscope Kids, airing on Peninsula TV, on 17 cable channels. Adding to her two award-winning CD's for families, with Magical Music Express, "Music is Magic" and "Friendship Stew", she has a solo CD for babies, toddlers, Preschoolers and Kindergartners called "A Hop, Skip and a Jump" released January 2007, that has won 4 national awards including a Parents' Choice Award. In addition to offering interactive and educational school assembly programs, library programs, artist residencies & workshops for teachers, Pam directs "Pam Donkin's Children's Chorus", age 5-8, in Atherton CA, and is a registered Music Together® teacher, and licensed Director, working with caregivers on how to enhance and nurture their child's musical development. Pam is married with three grown children who are all accomplished musicians.

Pam's music has received 7 National Awards

Parents' Choice Approved Award - A Hop, Skip, and a Jump

Creative Child Magazine Seal of Excellence - A Hop, Skip, and a Jump

Children's Music Web Awards 2007, Best Recording for Babies and Toddlers - A Hop, Skip, and a Jump

Children's Music Web Awards 2007, Best Recording for Preschoolers - A Hop, Skip, and a Jump

Children's Music Web Awards 2004, Best Song for Younger Children -"EWOP" - Friendship Stew

Children's Music Web Awards 2004, Classic Recording for Preschoolers - Music is Magic

Film Advisory Board Award of Excellence - Friendship Stew

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November 2007 - CD, "A Hop, Skip, and a Jump" receives two Children's Music Web Awards! Best Recording for Babies & Toddlers and Best Recording for Preschoolers, and receives rave reviews for the CD, from American Library Association Booklist, School Library Journal, and Parents' Choice.

September/October 2007 - Pam is on tour in 4 states! NY, MA, ME and NH, attending the Children's Music Network National Conference, presenting a Family Concert for A Gentle Wind, Jewish Preschool Music shows and library programs.

June 2007 - CD "A Hop, Skip, and a Jump" receives the Creative Child Magazine Seal of Excellence.

May 2007 - Pam attends the Music Together Directors Weekend in Princeton, NJ. Pam also presents assembly programs and library shows in Long Island and Brooklyn, NY.

April 2007 - Pam is on tour in Columbus, Ohio presenting Friendship Stew with a Cup of Character and her Jewish Preschool Music Show.

April 2007 - CD "A Hop, Skip, and a Jump" receives a Parents' Choice Award.

January 2007 - CD "A Hop, Skip, and a Jump" released by A Gentle Wind on January 26, 2007.

January 2007 - Pam goes to New Orleans teams up with Johnette Downing, We Care New Orleans, to entertain children whose preschools were destroyed in Katrina but are now up and running. Please join us in sending art and music items to preschools in New Orleans. Email Pam for addresses.

December 2006 - "My Kiddie Video," by Family Favorite Entertainment, is released on DVD - This beautifully produced video inlcudes songs by Pam Donkin, most notably "EWOP," and others, and also includes songs by Magical Music Express. Each video shows includes fun-filled scenes of babies and kids at play!

February 2006 - The song, "Friendship Stew," is included in Scholastic's Circle Time "Sing-Along Flip Chart & CD" for elementary classrooms.

April 2005 - Pam opens Auburn Music Together, Auburn, CA

February 2005 - Pam filmed two more episodes of the SF Peninsula, cable-access, children's TV show, that she hosts, "Kaleidoscope Kids". Look for them on Peninsula TV and MCTV.

November 2004 - Pam wins 2 Childrens Music Web awards! Her song, "EWOP" (Everything Works Out Perfectly), from her recording, "Friendship Stew," is Children's Music Web Award winner of the 2004 Best Song for Younger Children and her CD, "Music is Magic," is CMW Award winner of the 2004 Classic Recording for Pre-School category. This is very special because these are the only national awards actually chosen by children!

October 2003 - Pam is elected to the board of the Children’s Music Network.

August 2002 - Pam tapes the pilot for her new children’s TV show, "Kaleidoscope Kids" on MCTV/PENTV public access San Francisco Peninsula. Look for it on your local public access station soon!

December 2001 - "Friendship Stew" CD is awarded the Award of Excellence by The Film Advisory Board.

June 2001 - Pam records a new Magical Music Express children's album, "Friendship Stew," on the "Gentle Wind" record label in Albany, NY. Now available. To hear sound clips and order, visit: www.gentlewind.com or order from www.cdbaby.com or call 1-800-BUYMYCD.

January 2001 - Pam has licensed her song, "EWOP," to Enchantment Entertainment, a children’s video company, who set many of her songs to video! Additionally, she wrote the theme song, "My Kiddie Video."

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Children's Music Network Children’s Music Network

Pam is proud to be on the Board of Directors and is a member of the Children’s Music Network, a national childrens music organization. CMN recognizes children’s music as a powerful means of encouraging cooperation, celebrating diversity, building self-esteem, promoting respect and responsibility for our environment, and cultivating an understanding of nonviolence and social justice. CMN membership includes full-time and part-time performers, professional and amateur songwriters, classroom teachers, music educators, record producers, distributors, broadcasters, parents, grandparents, and children. For more information go to www.cmnonline.org.