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MELONBALL
Keyboard/Songwriting Duo

 

 

 Melonball is the husband & wife keyboard/songwriting duo of Steve & Stephanie Gold, the original artists on the Melonball label.
"Sesame Street meets Earth, Wind & Fire" N.J. Elementary Educator

 MELONBALL IS AVAILABLE TO SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES
AS ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE.

CALL (480) 759-6670

 

 

MELONBALL is the husband and wife songwriting/performing team of Steve and Stephanie Gold, who have successfully collaborated for over 25 years, touring throughout the country as performers and educators. As Artists-In-Residence in the schools, they teach the elements of popular songwriting with the focus on creating songs from real life experience. The Golds have written music for film, television and major recording artists ranging from Mickey Mouse to Sister Sledge to Sarah Vaughn. Melonball's first release in 1995, "Land of the Diamond Sun" was a collection of original songs for children and it received national acclaim from both educators and family-oriented publications. Songs from "Land of the Diamond Sun" are still being played on airline family-channel playlists all around the world.


STEVE GOLD has been a composer and performer all his life. He majored in arranging and composition at Berklee College in Boston, and then at Dick Grove School of Music in Los Angeles. STEPHANIE GOLD is a classically-trained pianist and composer. She studied with Marian Zarzeczna and David Sokoloff of the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia. She went to college at Indiana Univeristy in Bloomington, Indiana where she majored in piano performance with a minor in theater and composition.

Melonball has been on the Roster of the Arizona Commission on the Arts for over 10 years and has a strong history of successful and smooth-running residencies. In addition to being Roster Artists, the Golds have run a small record label and publishing company, and have managed their own diverse careers as recording and performing Artists for over 25 years.

 

 

 Melonball Discography

1997 Chickens, Oranges & Other Funny Stuff
1995 Land Of The Diamond Sun

 Other Music Written By Steve & Stephanie Gold: (partial list)

THEY DON'T SCARE ME - Sung by MICKEY MOUSE on Walt Disney Records
ALL OF MY LOVE - Sung by KATHY SLEDGE on EPIC RECORDS. Released as the SECOND SINGLE from the album. Rave reviews from BILLBOARD and went to number 57 on charts.
IF THE EARTH WERE THE SIZE OF A BASEBALL- Arizona Science Center Plantarium show
STREETWISE- Performed by jazz sax player GARY HERBIG on K-Tel Records.
TRUE LOVE- Sung by SISTER SLEDGE
SEESAW - Performed by DENISE LASALLE on MALACO RECORDS.
TEARS IN MY HEART - Sung by Japanese artist Hiromi Asai on Funhouse Records and performed by
SARAH VAUGHN - Performed in her final New York appearance at THE BLUE NOTE.
VOYAGER - Performed by DEXTER WANSEL on CBS Records.
CIRCUIT CITY SOUND MACHINE - Original music composed for CIRCUIT CITY's touring Soundmobile.
CAPTAIN HARLOCK & QUEEN OF 1000 YEARS - Harmony Gold syndicated cartoon show.
I SEE THE MOON - Score for the St. Louis Science Fair children's star show.
EYE ON HOLLYWOOD - Source music for syndicated entertainment show
INFINITE HOURGLASS - Background music for WDAS Radio in Philadelphia

 

 

 

NEWS
Melonball just completed a Residency at Cash Elementary School in the Laveen School District in South Phoenix, teaching the entire second grade how to write their own songs.
 MELONBALL just completed another sucessful Artist-in-Residency at Laguna Elementary School in Phoenix, Arizona, teaching 3rd graders how to write their own songs.
 


 

VENUES PERFORMED AT:
Arizona Western University
Mesa Arts Center
Elementary Schools throughout Arizona
Young Audiences of Santa Cruz County, Arizona
City of Tempe Performing Arts Series
Zany Brainy Children's Stores: Philadelphia, New York & New Jersey
Free Arts for Abused Children
Toho-Nochul Park, Tucson, AZ
Superstition Springs Family Concert Series
Scottsdale Arts Festival
West Valley Youth Arts Festival

 

 

 

 

A MELONBALL ARTIST- IN - RESIDENCY



Melonball works with one class of students (25-30) at a time, through a series of 7 workshops, teaching them songwriting. The Residency has a double culmination in that the last workshop is an actual recording session, where a studio is set up and the students record their compositions for a CD that will be made available. Also, on the last day of the Residency, all the students get up on stage and perform their original songs to the school and/or the public. A sample Residency might go as follows: 1: Introduction to the roots & styles of popular songwriting 2: Lyric Writing 3: Song Form 4: Rhythm & rhyming 5: Developing the melody. Over the weekend, we record the instrumental tracks for the students’ songs, which we bring in the following week. The remaining workshops are dedicated to recording the students, and working with them on stage presence, projecting, and other performance skills. Melonball Music also addresses a number of different ARIZONA ARTS STANDARDS in Grades 1-3: Foundations and Grades 4-8 Essentials.
A Melonball residency is most recommended for grades K-6

For Pricing and Availability, call: 480-759-6670

Additional information available from Arizona Commission on the Arts

"Interacting with the audience, they bring laughter, lessons in songwriting and imagination to young and not so young."
Eulene Watkins,The Observer