PDF Files

Read essays and lesson plans complete with full color illustrations! Click on the title to view the entire chapter. Requires Adobe Acrobat

Video - Just Plain Art

Watch a 10-minute video of 7 Colorado folk artists, dancers, musicians. Requires Apple Quick Time Player.

Just Plain Art (Small Video 9.1 MB)

Sound Tracks

A Warning! Be sure to prescreen all soundtracks before presenting them in the classroom. Some stories, songs or poems (particular some of those in Spanish) may not be suitable for children.

A Calling Card For Friendship Volume I

Side A

Campfires (Poem) track 1
Medley (Valse, La Pola Breva, Una Cuna) track 2
Wizard on the Hill track 3
S.A.V.E.D. track 4
Sue (Poem) track 5
Bonnie Mary of Argyle track 6
Medley (Pigeon on the Gate, The Tap Room) track 7
Flor De Las Flores track 8
I'm Sending My Timber Up To Heaven track 9
He Took My Sight track 10

Side B

El Caballo track 1
The Fall track 2
Nobody Home (Poem) track 3
Diablo (Poem) track 4
La Vasurita track 5
A Scottish Selection (Medley: My Home, King George V Army, Mrs. Mcloud of Raysay) track 6
Willie Moore track 7
No, Not Yet! (Poem) track 8
Que Recoue track 9
Moliendo Cafe track 10

A Calling Card For Friendship Volume II

Side A

A Calling Card for Friendship (Spoken) track 1
Blackhawk Waltz track 2
Old Grey Beard A-Shakin' track 3
Jesus Like a Bridge track 4
He is Worthy track 5
Chaesnava track 6
Dancin' Doll track 7
Letter from Home (Reading) track 8
Mot Potica track 9
El Senoloence track 10
El Corrido Del Valle de San Luis track 11
Bala Sinen track 12
Flag Song track13

Side B

Cotton Patch Rag track 1
Durango's Hornpipe track 2
Way Out West in Kansas track 3
Bag Balm (Poem) track 4
In the Shade of a Tree track 5
Routt County Song track 6
Windsor Special track 7
Porkchops (Some of What You're Sittin' On) track 8
El Cofrecito track 9
Do Not Pass Me By track 10
David track 11

Do Not Pass Me By: A Celebration of Colorado Folklife Volume I

Side A

Nyle Henderson of Hotchkiss, Colorado track 1
Bud Bartram of Stoneham, Colorado track 2
Baxter Black of Brighton, Colorado track 3
Ellis Skinner of Westminster, Colorado track 4
Ed Carpenter of Hayden, Colorado track 5
Ray and Ina Patterson of Woodland Park, Colorado track 6
H.L. Hayes of Pueblo, Colorado track 7

Side B

Jenny Baca Koontz and Skelly Garcia of Denver, Colorado track 1
Lillie and Sally Zadra of Leadville, Colorado track 2
John Fritzler and Band of Greely, Colorado track 3
Mary Casey and Pat Flanagan of Denver, Colorado track 4
The Don Curtis Family of Mesa, Colorado track 5
Roots and Branches and Gospel Renaissance of Denver, Colorado track 6

Do Not Pass Me By: A Celebration of Colorado Folklife Volume II

Side A

La Familia Manzanares of San Pablo, Colorado track 1
Jacklyn Sanchez of Alamosa, Colorado track 2
Angel Vigil of Denver, Colorado track 3
Jack Wharley of Denver, Colorado track 4
Lonnie Wilson of Elizabeth, Colorado track 5
Bill May of Steamboat Springs, Colorado track 6
Cynthia Kent of Denver, Colorado track 7

Side B

Dr. David Shander of Denver, Colorado track 8
Jim Boilers of Hudson, Colorado track 9
Nyle Henderson/Baxter Black of Hotchkiss and Brighton, Colorado track 10
The Spiritual-Aires of Denver, Colorado track 11
Elder George Boone of Denver, Colorado track 12
Gospel Renaissance of Denver, Colorado track 13