JIM VALLEY
Songwriter, Educator and Friend...

Jim Valley’s work with children began in 1980 when he was invited by an administrator to create a friendship workshop in a troubled school and to write a song “that would help us learn to get along.” The song, Rainbow Planet, was born. The workshop was so successful that Jim was soon traveling to schools throughout Washington state where he wove children’s words and feelings into songs, helping them feel special about themselves. He now travels internationally presenting the Rainbow Planet Assemblies in the United States, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, South America and beyond.

Jim has become an international “Pied Piper” who promotes the nurturing of a child’s creativity from the heart, feelings and emotions. For Jim Valley, music and dance are the vehicle to a child’s center of self esteem and caring.

Jim has produced six highly acclaimed, Parent Choice Award winning recordings, a choir book and a musical play, Wishes Come True: Secrets of the Rainbow Planet. Jim has been a featured author with the Wright Group, which published six of Jim's songs into Big Books. In 2002, Jim produced an album for grown-ups titled, Rolling Sea.

Jim has been entertaining audiences most of his life. Indeed, the parents and grandparents of many of Jim's current young fans may have danced and sung along with his guitar riffs way back when. Nicknamed "Harpo", Jim was the lead guitarist for Paul Revere and the Raiders during the group's peak of popularity in the mid sixties. Click Here for more about Jim and Paul Revere and the Raiders.

Spreading a philosophy rich in imagination, friendship and environmental sensitivity, Jim is a true ambassador for our times.