All themed programs can be adapted for any audience. Each program is 45-50 minutes in length, but can be extended to a two-hour program.

Please contact Debra Cowan for fees and availability.

Flanders Touring Concert Program (please see separate brochure)

Silly Songs and Funny Folk (Children's Program)

Guaranteed to put a smile on the faces of those participating. Debra takes you on a “Safari Up My Sister’s Nose”, a journey to “The Bottomless Lake”, and sings about the composers Beethovan and Johann Strauss. Simple refrains and choruses of both traditional and contemporary songs are taught so that singing is encouraged. The audience learns several entire songs such as "Wild About Horns on Automobiles" and "The Stars at Night" so that they can take them home teach them to others. The primary goal of this program is to encourage singing, but most of all, we want to have as much fun as possible.This program is primarily meant for children, but can be adapted for adult audiences.

Worker, Wife and Warrior

Songs that concentrate on a woman’s point of view are the focus in this program. Songs of fish-gutters, weavers and other occupations that were considered “Women’s Work” are presented along with ballads about home life and raising children. Ballads telling of women in traditional men’s roles are featured as well as the common songs in which women dress themselves in men’s clothing to search for a lost love or seek adventure

I’ll Go To Sea Once More

The seven seas and sailing ships have inspired many songs, both traditional and contemporary. Sea chanteys, the official work songs of sailing ships and songs describing life on board ocean going vessels are contained in this program that blends history and song. Many sea songs have sing-a-long choruses and refrains, and the audience is invited to participate.

The Workin’ Man

Contemporary and traditional songs are used to describe the hardships faced in the worker’s world through time. Songs describing various occupations as well as union songs and political songs are used to bring an awareness to the listener of the worker’s struggle for better conditions and wages in the workplace.

Debra Cowan is listed on the New England Foundation for the Arts

(NEFA) Touring Roster and is a proud member of AFM Local 1000