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Kids Will Go Banana Go! For This Daddly Duo
Some things are so ridiculous that they can’t be taken seriously. Fortunately, that’s the whole point of the music produced by Go Banana Go!, the children’s music combo featuring two dads – an Emmy...
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Two Generations of Kids Music: The Figureheads and Zing Zangs
Time stands still for no child. In 10 years, kids go through sneakers, shirts, schools, and reading levels like nobody’s business. For children’s music, 10 years is therefore a lifetime. For recent 8...
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Return of the Story Pirates’ Stage Show and Podcast
Throughout the pandemic, and despite a shutdown of live performances, The Story Pirates have kept in contact with an enthralled audience through their award-winning podcast, which has been downloaded...
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Rymer Celebrates Spring; Beats Fire Imaginations
Brady Rymer and the Little Band That Could are known for (among other things) the positivity in their songs. Their new CD is coming in June from . But in the meantime, we’ve got the title track and its...
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Quick Hits: Grey Clouds and Star Wars Songs
While the entire planet underwent the turmoil from a global pandemic, Australian children’s artist Benny Time faced a tough diagnosis of the rare auto immune disease Primary Schlerosing Cholangitis...
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Quick Hits: Pronouns and Shimmies
I loved Looney Tunes when I was a kid. Who didn’t love Bug Bunny and Daffy Duck feuding, especially when Elmer Fudd was added to the mix. In fact, one of the funniest arguments they ever had revolved...
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Pirates, Pants, and Laurie Berkner’s 25th Anniversary
Aah, the era of piracy on the high seas. It’s hard to be sentimental about such disreputable scallywags, but Rich Manic has managed to create an entire children’s theatrical performance based around...
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Dan Noodle Loafs While Gina Wonders
The award-winning podcast “Noodle Loaf” celebrates the release of Echo Songs, Volume 2, featuring songs from the series, which is the creation of musician/educator Dan Saks. The tunes derive from his...
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Rock O’Clock Band Rejoices in Childhood
Alexei Wajchman began playing music for the band Blind Willies right out of high school in San Francisco. For more than 10 years, Alexei has taught music to kids in the Bay area. Now he has compiled...
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Never Enough Happiness for Jenn Cleary
My brother used to scream “Freebird” at every concert he attended. Not because he actually needed to hear the classic southern rock song. Most likely, he wanted to see how the performer or band would...
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Josh Lovelace Moonwalks With Young Folk
Josh Lovelace Josh Lovelace may rock out as part of the band NEEDTOBREATHE, but his children’s music sensibilities were crafted by Canada’s Sharon, Lois & Bram. Now branding himself as Young Folk...
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Friday Feels Right for Brady Rymer
Brady Rymer and The Little Band That Could are back to continue their effective practice of genially entertaining your children with deceptively simple songs, filled with harmonies and concepts that go...
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Weinkauf Wakes Up With Lullabies
The return of live music has come with some unintended circumstances. They Might Be Giants‘ bassist Danny Weinkauf looked forward to the resumption of the band’s delayed world tour, which finally got...
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No Place Like Space for Justin Roberts
Justin Roberts lives in my happy place. Which is to say, an undisclosed location where childhood is venerated (“Gimme a Fire Truck”), family fun is celebrated (“Dance Party”), and there’s boundless...
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Twinkle Time Gets Animated for PBS
For more than 10 years, children’s music recording artist Twinkle Time (aka Alitzah Weiner) has cultivated a larger-than-life persona. Now her peppy, upbeat character is entertaining kids as the...
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‘Super Wiggles’ Rocket Into Another Decade
Some day, somebody in Australia will write the definitive story about The Wiggles. The children’s music supergroup has juggled personnel over the years, undergone more than its fair share of turmoil...
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Claudia Sings Kids’ Songs by the Sea Shore
If Florence and the Machine recorded an album of songs about the ocean and conservation, it would probably sound like Claudia Robin Gunn’s new collection, Sing For the Sea. The New Zealand children’s...
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Nathalia Paints With Many Colors
There’s an international world of children’s music out there and Colombian-born artist Nathalia Palis is striving to explore all those colors and flavors with her fifth collection of original songs,...
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A Great Time to Be Louis and Dan
An homage occurs when an entertainer decides to pay tribute to artists that influenced his career, recording a piece of music with that recognizable persona or style. It’s more than simply covering an...
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No Kidding About Disabilities for Jumpin’ Jamie
One of the reasons that tweens tend to loathe “children’s music” is their overwhelming desire to “grow up” and abandon the trappings of little kid-dom, whether it’s naptime, obediently following rules,...
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