Music For Kids By Kids: Two Talented 8th Graders from MS 51

Two Brooklyn teens, Wolfe Edelman and Joanna Wagner, will play sets from their customized playlist for all of the public school kids who spend next Thursday’s day off at the New York Transit Museum.  

With Edelman on guitar and Wagner singing, the Museum’s lunch room will be transformed into a toe-tapping concert hall with “moving” songs about trains, boats and planes. 

Wolfe and Joanna are students at MS 51 in Park Slope. Wolfe is in the instrumental program and band and has been playing guitar since the age of 7.  Joanna is involved in the vocal curriculum and a member of the school’s show choir. Both young musicians will be attending the prestigious Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts next year, continuing to pursue their respective interests.

Together they created a transit-themed list of songs, including “Leaving on a Jet Plane,” “Crazy Train” and “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad.”  

With two sets scheduled, at 1:30 pm and 3:00 pm, these two 8th graders will be celebrating “Chancellor’s Day,” their day off from school, in style!

The New York Transit Museum is housed in a decommissioned 1936 subway station on the corner of Boerum Place and Schermerhorn Street in Brooklyn Heights. Hours are Tuesday through Friday, 10am to 4pm, and Saturday and Sunday, 11am to 5pm. Admission is $5/child and $7/adult.