Kids Jam is supported by Arcadia Foundation, County of Northampton The Sylvia Perkin Perpetual Charitable Trust.

St Luke's Pediatrics.

Hi, welcome to Kids Jam.

I'm Kira Wily and I'm so happy you're here.

Kids Jam is all about making music and today we get to make music with our friend Sonia de los Santos, who will take us on a joyful musical journey through Latin America.

A little later, we'll head to the music room with some friends to learn all the different ways we can make our own music.

We can clap, We can stomp.

We can sing.

There are lots of ways.

Now we're ready to jam with Sonia de la Santos.

Hello, everybody.

Hi.

Thanks, Kira, for that beautiful introduction.

I'm here with my friend Elena Moon Park.

Say hola Elena.

Hola.

And we're going to share some songs with you.

And feel free to sing along.

Dance along.

Clap, stomp.

If you have a musical instrument.

Wherever you're watching, you can also bring it out and jam with us.

All right.

I'll give you some clues on on how to sing along and dance.

But let's start with the song.

This one's called Alegria, and Alegria is the Spanish word for joy.

Happiness?

Yes.

So to sing along to it, you only need to remember that one word, Alegria.

Please put your hands up like this and repeat after me.

Alegria.

Alegria Alegre.

Alegria.

Thank you.

Okay, that's good.

All right.

Are you ready?

One, two.

One, two, three.

He Hey thanks for singing along to that.

Thanks, Elena, for playing trumpet.

I love you, Sonia.

When you play the trumpet.

Okay.

We are making music here with our musical instruments.

I was playing earlier.

The what?

Guitar.

Right?

And Elena was playing trumpet.

But now we're going to switch our instruments, and I want to introduce this one here.

This is actually a mexican traditional guitar called Now Can you say Karina Try it hard, Anna.

Anna Muy bien.

And Mexico is also the country where I am from.

And when I was just a little girl, I remember going to my grandmother's house.

I would sit on her porch and watch this nest wood birds in the little corner of her house.

One day I went back there and the birds were gone.

So I asked about them.

I said, Where are the birds?

And my grandmother explained to me and she said, Sonia, don't worry, they'll come back.

They are golden.

Berenice said, Okay, what's a girl?

And Nina?

And she said, Well, they are migrant birds.

Have you heard about migrant birds?

You have Elena.

They fly long distances looking for better weather.

So inspired them.

That journey and my own journey migrating from the country of Mexico all the way to New York.

I wrote this next song called La Marina The Suelo.

Do you by any chance know the Spanish word for up?

Arriba Everybody say Aribba, Arriba and Down is.

Abajo Abajo.

Okay, everybody say.

Abajo.

Our arms in Spanish are called brazos.

So I'm going to ask everybody, please put your brazos arriba.

Arriba, abajo we do it fast enough, we're going to fly all the way to Mexico.

Ready?

Mm.

We're going to learn a rhythm called Cafe Con Pan.

Can you say Cafe Con Pan Cafe Con Pan over and over.

Cafe Con Pan, Cafe Con Pan, Cafe Con Pan, Perfect man Very good.

Now we're going to add some claps, Cafe Con Pan.

Cafe Con Pan, Cafe Con Pan.

And keep that going.

I actually want to do the same rhythm with my feet over this that ima that room in front of us.

So I'm going to try that.

Okay, Keep your claps going.

Yeah.

Hi and welcome to the music room.

We are all about making music here at Kids Jam.

And you at home can make music with us to Let's get ready by taking a few deep breaths in.

Take a long breath in.

Let it all the way out.

Do that again.

Take a long breath in.

Let it all the way out and stand on up right where you are.

You can stand up if you want to.

To.

And let's twist our bodies one way and twist our bodies the other way And give our bodies a little wiggle and a jiggle.

Yeah.

And then hold still and take a long breath in one more time and let it out.

We can sit back down.

You know, all music has rhythm.

Sometimes we call it the beat, and there are lots of different kinds of beats.

Let's see if we can find the beat When I play some rhythm on my what?

What is it called?

A guitar.

And sometimes I play it with this little tiny thing called it This is called a pick.

So let's play some rhythm and see if we can find the beat.

So stay sitting in your seats and you can to see if you can find the beat with your feet ready?

Yeah.

Can you find the beat with your When it gets a little faster?

All right.

I have a question for you.

Can you find the beat with your hands?

How would you do that?

Oh, your hand.

Very nice.

All right, one more thing.

Could you find the beat with your head?

No, no.

Oh.

Yeah.

Try.

What could you do?

Could you find the beat with your head?

What?

If you could tap on your head or nod your head or what?

Let's try.

Find the beat with your head.

There you go.

A little.

Faster.

Beautiful, my friends.

Well done.

Beautiful job finding the beat.

Thank you for making music with us at home.

Let's go back to the Kids Jam studio for some more music.

We'll see you next time in the Music Room.

Bye.

Yeah, our last album, it's called Esperanza, and Esperanza is the word in Spanish for Hope.

And we wrote some songs that talked about Hope.

This is the title title track of that album, and it's a song that talks about, you know, even in hard times, like we've been living, you know, lately in the last year, there's always there's always something, something good to look forward to.

And if you look around, you, you'll find heroes, people who are doing incredible work to get us through it students, teachers, health care workers, so many people in our communities that are truly heroes, parents, friends, just to mention a few.

But anyway, this song is talks about that the chorus goes like This.

And you can sing back.

To us.

Let's never, ever lose our hope.

Let's never, ever lose our hope.

Can you dance to this one?

I think you can.

Yeah, maybe.

Yeah.

Hopeful dance, whatever that means.

And some hand-clapping would be good, too, for this one.

All right.

Ready?

Yeah.

I hope we never lose our hope.

There is something called a fandango that happens in Mexico in other parts of the world, too.

But the first fandango I've ever been to is in.

It's in Mexico.

What's a fandango?

It's a community gathering.

It's a musical experience.

People come with their instruments.

Sometimes there's food, there's improvising, and we love that.

We love when communities come together and create something beautiful.

And we wrote a song about that called The Fandango.

So it has a little dance.

So get your hands out, get ready.

I want you to put your hands down here to your right and say fun, Ready, fun, good.

Switch sides and say, Done that and then up.

Go, go.

Let's try that all together.

Fandango one last time.

Fandango.

That's it.

When you hear that in the chorus, you'll know what to do.

Right.

Okay, let's start.

Fandango.

Fandango.

Fandango fandango fandango hmm Good.

Fun going to the fandango.

Thank you so much for watching.

We have one more song and we want to say thanks again.

Elena Moon Park for joining me today.

Sonia Thank you.

PBS's 39 Kids Jim and Kira Wily for inviting us.

We always love coming here to the studio and we are so happy to share our music with you today for this last song, we're going to do something called a Partner Dance.

Have you heard of a partner dance before?

Basically, go find yourself a partner or partners.

So wherever you're watching, there's someone you can safely do a partner dance with.

Tell them to come close and do a little dance.

If you don't have a partner, we can be your partner.

So when I say point to your partner, you can just point at the screen and we'll be your partners, all right?

And you'll mirror what we're doing.

There's some specific moves, so let's show them, Elena, how.

How it goes in the chorus.

You'll hear the words.

Te Tengo a Ti.

That that means I have you.

So when did you face your partner and point at them.

Te Tengo a Ti.

Or to screen.

I have you and you have me.

That's all we're saying.

Then most thought, Oh, we have everything.

So spread your arms wide like this.

What else can we ask for?

Just go like this.

We have time Point your imaginary watch.

To share, open your hands with gratitude and on the last line you're going to spin around in a circle.

Just like that.

All right, we're ready.

Yeah.

Okay.

Oh, and I have another instrument here.

Let's see if you can guess the name of it.

I'm ready.

Here we go.

It'll be so fine under the sun.

You and me, We're gonna shine.

Ready, one more time.

Thank you so much.

Can I see you next time, adios.

I hope you had fun making music with Sonia de la Santos today.

Remember?

We all have music inside us.

So keep singing your own song.

I'm Kira Willy and we'll jam again soon.

I'll see you next time on Kids Jam.

Kids Jam is supported by Arcadia Foundation, Northampton County and the Sylvia Perkin Perpetual Charitable Trust, Domino's, St Luke's Pediatrics, and special thanks to Nazareth Music Center.