Pedro has over the years created a number of story-telling and music CDs for children. These are available from Pedro directly. If you live in Cape Town, phone 021 6854704 or 084 2300683, otherwise order by email from musicman@iafrica.com
Pedro's Song and Dance
A collection of favourite songs from Kideo, the kids' magazine programme that featured Pedro the Music Man. It includes 13 infectious songs composed by Pedro, with lyrics by Lisa Jacobson. They're great for movement and dance, and are perfect for the pre-school classroom and for children at home, aged 2 to 7.
Seven Stories from The Little Library
These stories were developed by READ with some of South Africa's best children's writers, illustrators and teachers, in response to the need for high quality books for children reflecting their own local world. Pedro was involved throughout the project, and produced the audio versions, as well as composing all the music and songs. This cd includes 7 of our favourites. For children aged 2 to 7. The books can be ordered from us too.
1 Crocodile's Sore Tooth read by Moses Mphahlele
2 Yawning is Catching read by Gcina Mhlope
3 Mama Mabena's Magic ) read by
4 Thuli's Mattress ) Nomsa Nene
5 Baby Monkey's Bananas read by Soli Philander
6 Hic Hic Hiccups read ) read by
7 The Little Lost Goat ) Moses Mphahlele
Two Monster Stories
Vusirala the Giant and The Terrible Grakwa are two longer stories from The Little Library (see above.) Both these original African stories have the elements of classic fairy-tales, including a fierce monster, and a child hero/heroine whose bravery and clever plan saves the day. Again production and music are by Pedro. For children aged 3 to 7.
The Lekgodilo Flute
Pedro's signature instrument is the magical Lekgodilo, a flute with no holes, made with kelp, pawpaw leaves or plastic irrigation pipe. It's the most simple instrument to make, but it takes a long time and lots of practice to play it well, so Pedro has made this child-friendly version with PVC piping and an easy-to-play mouthpiece added (designed for the penny-whistle and imported from Ireland).
The flute above is made out of a length of piping with a mouthpiece attached to it.
See below how the traditional instrument is made out of a piece of dry kelp on a Cape Town beach.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN1OAXyjf9c
A full pack including flutes in several keys and a CD of flute examples and musical backing tracks in different styles is available.
