Award-winning family performing artist Karen Rae Kraut is a storyteller, variety entertainer, comedienne, singer, teaching artist and workshop presenter.  Her storytelling/variety shows include adaptations of world folktales, music, songs, movement and her own special brand of audience participation. Since 1990 she has been performing her whimsical, high-energy solo shows in schools, libraries and community settings from California to East Tennessee. 

Karen Rae has toured California museums for the Smithsonian Institution and earned a masters degree in storytelling from East Tennessee State University.  Her CD Cooler Water Cora and Other Stories is the winner of a National Parenting Publications Honors Award and an iParenting Media Award for Audio Excellence. 

Catch “The Call of the Road:  Adventure, Danger and Mystery Away from Home”  in libraries this summer.  New costumes, new scenery, new stories!