Grupo Bambulha: música para infância

Abstract

This article is an experience report of Grupo Bambulha, which is an extension project at UFMG related to the Integrated Music Center (CMI) and which aims to provide students of Music Degree with musical performance and creative, artistic and pedagogical practices in a authorial work dedicated to childhood, involving children and families. Thus, the purpose of this article is to report the actions that were carried out during the first year of the group's work, as well as exposing the creative processes of four songs that make up the authorial show “A Casa de Bambu”. Over the course of a year, the results achieved by Grupo Bambulha are notorious in several spheres, involving both the production and distribution of children's music and the training of musicians, artists, music teachers, and the relationship with community, with schools, families and children, thus fulfilling its extension role.