The first song on Natalie Merchant's album Leave Your Sleep is Nursery Rhyme of Innocence and Experience , by Charles Causley, a title ...

Here is a video of "Maggie and Milly and Molly and May," performed by Natalie Merchant and based upon the poem by E.E. Cummings. I...

I have a stack of children’s music CDs to review. I’m chagrined to say that by now, none of them are new releases. Still, maybe I can do som...

I'm so pleased that musical storyteller Bill Harley is coming to this part of the country. On Saturday, February 20, Harley will play a...

I uploaded the Jack Frost song yesterday on A Storytelling of Crows . You might wonder why I don't simply post these songs on this blog...

Musician and early-childhood music educator Brian Vogan has a new video out for his song That's How a Pumpkin Grows from his debut alb...

Eric Herman , children's musician and blogger of Cool Tunes for Kids , made the front page of Boing Boing . Congratulations, Eric!

Eric Herman has a new video called "The Tale of the Sun and the Moon." It's a lullaby off of Herman's last album, "S...

I've had Charlotte Diamond's "Octopus" song (aka "Slippery Fish") going through my head the past few days. You c...

To my readers: I wrote this piece purely for your amusement. In no way is it meant to diminish the gravity of world events. Sometimes, when ...

Sometime after I interviewed librarian and performer Joel Caithamer for this blog, Joel kindly sent me a copy of his new album, The Biggest...

A band named Elbow wants to make an album of children's music . Here is a quote from the article: "We initially thought that it wou...

*This past week, I received emails from two different performers who are doing good work on the local level: "Miss Maggie" of Miss...

A recent email from Red Tricycle brought my attention to “Little Songs,” the first CD released by Seattle early childhood-music educator Br...

It's not too late to get your tickets to see Elizabeth Mitchell in concert in Seattle, Washington at Town Hall. There are two shows, a...

Head on over to Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast to read everyone's weekly kicks as they roll in. Here are mine, written on Sat...

The House of Glee attended Eric Herman's Cool Bug Tunes for Kids concert as part of King County Library System's summer reading pr...

Recess Monkey is going on a cross-country tour ! More good news: Elizabeth Mitchell is finally coming to the West Coast in August and Septe...

This is a pretty good interview with Dan Zanes on PlumTV , intersperced with recent concert footage: You'll note the part in the Dan Zan...

Today I'm sharing with you two videos taken from Nancy Stewart's concert at the Crossroads Shopping Center last night. The first one...