Rachel Sumner

Celebrate this year's theme with dinosaur fun and songs about reading, imagination, and adventure. We will sing, dance, stomp like dinosaurs, and roar along to the beat!  

Join Rachel for free summer reading concerts on: 
Thursday, June 18, 10:30 am…

It is time to prepare for summer! I'm booking events for parks, library summer reading programs, and summer camps now. 

Rachel Sumner is on the Tennessee Arts Commission's artist roster. This means you can apply for grants for your school or venue to hire Rachel for a concert, workshop, or residency in Tennessee. Check out their grants here! Every county…

Rachel Sumner's summer reading concerts are lively and full of opportunities for the audience to participate. She performs in Tennessee frequently but also travels. Call her for a quote for your library. 

Rachel Sumner will keep everyone hopping, dancing, doing the chicken dance, marching in a duck parade, and singing along during a fun spring and Easter concert for your venue or Easter Egg Hunt! Listen to The Bunny Book here! 

This summer you will find me performing in Nashville Libraries, Williamson County, White House Tennessee, East Tennessee, Centennial Park for Metro Parks in Nashville, and back at the Koch Family Children's Museum in Evansville, Indiana. Find my calendar on my…

Join Rachel Sumner as she performs interactive music for families at MetroParks. This hour-long family series starts at 6:00 pm. Tales at Twilight is a free family event on Fridays in July at the Centennial Park Bandshell (near 25th Ave…

I'm excited about my summer reading dance party at the East Branch Library! I will invite everyone to learn the cha-cha, a tap dance*, the twist, the monkey, the swim, and more.

*Since the East Branch Library has a hard…

Children love my Itsy Bitsy Spider puppet and spout. I bought a plastic spout from a home improvement store, mounted it with hot glue on a square piece of 2 x 4, and screwed on 4 plastic chair caps for…

I love homemade and found instruments. If you look around your kitchen, you will find it is filled with interesting musical instruments. I think Thanksgiving is a wonderful time to entertain guests with the instruments you find in your kitchen…

Fill your baster bulb with water by putting the open end under a slow running faucet until it reaches the top of the bulb or try to remove the bulb, fill it and replace it. You may have to experiment…

1. Comedy.  (Theater)

2. Surprise. (Theater)

3. Props/visual aids - including unusual props as attention grabbers. (Theater)

4. Movement (Movement/Dance)

5. Auditory elements - Music, singing and storytelling. (Music and Theater)

6. Appeal to the imagination! Include moments when students…