Vermont resident Peter Siegel is a once frequent, now occasional touring musician with the world band The Gaslight Tinkers. He's also a public school music teacher in Keene, New Hampshire. Peter developed his philosophy and understanding spending time around folk legend Pete Seeger and other traditionalists playing old time music, Afro-Caribbean, funk and soul, Peter’s music isn't easily definable but connection, rhythm and resonance are the overwhelming and consistent theme....and resonance is what will save the human race! He’s been privileged to have played festivals and venues across the US, Canada, Caribbean and Europe from Newport Folk to the Kennedy Center. He's shared the stage with folks like Seeger, Judy Collins, Dar Williams, Noel Paul Stookey and Utah Phillips. But, education and building connection is his passion. His School, Symonds School, a public institution in Keene, NH embraces a social curriculum that promotes learning, collaboration, peace, and justice. K-5 students and faculty alike promote a culture of respect, understanding and community. Peter is the music teacher for the 340 or so children that attend Symonds. It is his goal that each child come away from their experience with a sense of purpose, creativity, inner beat, and a sense of lifelong learning in music. They may not become a “musician” yet they will at least see the world as a place in which creative art forms are something in which they will not just spectate, but take part. Music is creative power. The sense of empowerment that a child or adult feels when participating in a dance, a group song, a drum circle, a band, and orchestra translates to empowerment in life. Power to the children!