The annual kid’s music awards were announced yesterday on Bill Childs’ weekly Spare the Rock Spoil the Child radio program. Not familiar with the Fids & Kamily Awards? Think of them as the Grammys, with clued-in voters. The Fids & Kamily top 10 is selected by a collection of media […]
OWTK was lucky enough to be in the audience for the live Brady Rymer and the Little Band That Could concert taping at XM Radio’s D.C. studio yesterday. The hour long set features many songs from “Love Me For Who I Am”, including “Picky Eater”, “Who Wants To Wear Shoes?”, […]
Brady Rymer “Love Me For Who I Am” This is the album Brady Rymer was destined to make. “Love Me For Who I Am” gives Rymer’s patented ear to ear grin, youthful exuberance and happy-go-lucky acoustic guitar rock charm a purpose higher than simply a nifty batch of songs on […]
The OWTKids enjoyed 8 bands, 4 author readings, 2 hotel swimming pools, 1 Bart’s cookie dough ice cream cone, a half dozen free Stonyfield yogurts, a bag of Gummi Bears, and 4 yards of Twizzlers. Yeah, it was a good trip. The 2011 Meltdown Family Book & Music Festival assembled […]
Months ago, I interviewed Brady Rymer re: his tune “Love Me For Who I Am” a song that was written especially for, and to benefit, kids with Autism. The song is now the title track to an entirely new album from the Grammy nominated Rymer. The disc (due in April) […]
The Midwest’s finest family music festival takes place each year in Kansas City, MO over Memorial Day Weekend. It’s called KC Jiggle Jam and it’s a sight to behold. The City of Fountain’s Crown Center is overrun with babies napping on brilliantly manicured green grass, toddlers going boing in moonbounces, […]
Tucked away in an idyllic New England town is one of the finest annual children’s music events in all the land. Meltdown: The River’s Family Music & Book Festival is an all-day immersion in some of the greatest all-ages music, literature and extra-curricular activities known to man. Oh, and it’s […]
BRETT BAND FOR KIDS Self-Titled CD You gotta love an album that opens with zero pretense. Eschewing any claim of hipness, Brett Band for Kids begins with the precious demand “Hug me / ’cause I love you”. Hipster parents may cringe. For everyone else: prepare to “open up your arms […]
