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 […]
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 […]
“Your ideal / your image / your definition of a friend” – The Afghan Whigs “What Jail Is Like” That lyric first rattled around inside these ears some 17 years ago. It prompted me to examine who I considered a friend and what, exactly, the idea of a friendship meant […]
Fans of Lunch Money are going to wanna bookmark this one. Molly Ledford, of the South Carolina trio, is blogging (or is it vlogging?) brand new tunes – some from the band’s forthcoming album “Original Friend”, some not, all sweet. “You and Me and a Bottle of Bubbles” has all […]
If Fids and Kamily were to add a best album artwork category to the year end awards poll (an addition I’d love to see), Lunch Money’s “Dizzy” would surely land in the top half of the top ten. Even if such an honor never materializes, it’s very likely “Dizzy” will […]
