Electric Earth Concerts will host a live chamber music event for the littlest residents of the Monadnock region on Saturday, March 8, at 11 a.m. at the Monadnock Center for History and Culture in Peterborough.

The concert is first of a new series, “Open Doors Musical Pathways,” aimed to fully engage young children in music through song, creative movement and collaboration. The event, designed for preschoolers and their parents, is free and open to the public.

“Musical Pathways” will feature Jazimina Creamer-MacNeil as director and vocalist, Marjorie Gere on violin, Dan Sedgewick on piano, Rohan Gregory on violin and additional musical guests. The program was developed by Creamer-MacNeil, a Monadnock region musician, actor, naturalist and preschool educator at the Harris Center for Conservation Education. The concert series, which is a collaboration between Electric Earth and the Harris Center, will also be presented at the First Friends preschools in Antrim, Peterborough, Hancock and Greenfield from March 6 to 8.

“The original idea was sparked by the plethora of music that exists about animals, but as I started crafting the program, I realized that what children respond to the strongest is participating in the singing,” said Creamer-MacNeil. “The program is designed so the children will not only sing along, they’ll get up and move to the music and engage with their whole bodies.”

Creamer-MacNeil took familiar songs about animals, including Emil Saint-Saëns’ “Carnival of the Animals” and Sergei Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf,” and reimagined them with Monadnock region animals.

“We’ll be using some taxidermied items from the Harris Center; we’ll have moose antlers and things like that. We’ll have a mini-lesson about each animal,” Creamer-MacNeil said.

“The ‘Carnival of Animals’ is about circus or zoo animals, so we’ll learn about the moose instead of the elephant, an eagle instead of a swan, a chipmunk instead of a kangaroo; then we’ll be moving like moose and bobcats and chipmunks.”

Creamer-MacNeil will also read a story about each of the animals with musical accompaniment.

The program will close with the children creating their own animal stories.

“There will just be a minimum of sitting and listening, then we’ll get up and move around,” she said.

“Kids love these animals and getting to move like these animals.”

The concert series is the first of several new creative collaborations coming from Electric Earth this year.

On May 3, Electric Earth will present “Crankie Bartok,” an interactive live event concert for children of all ages, at 1 p.m. at the Peterborough Town Library.

On Sunday, May 11, at 4 p.m. at The Park Theatre in Jaffrey, Electric Earth presents Fire Grace & Fanny. Violin and Celtic guitar tango player Edwin Huizinga and William Coulter will be joined by Fanny Ara.

The “Open Doors” concert program serves people who cannot easily attend public concerts, with free events in libraries, communities for people with disabilities, retirement communities and schools.

For a complete schedule of upcoming Electric Earth concerts, go to electricearthconcerts.org.