GET ON THE BUS FOR A FANTASTIC ‘FIELD TRIP’ with RECESS MONKEY - Giveaway

GET ON THE BUS FOR A FANTASTIC ‘FIELD TRIP’ with RECESS MONKEY - Giveaway

By   7:00:00 AM   8 comments:

Just in time for school Recess Monkey is releaseing a new album, "Field Trip"!

With tremendous exhilaration, independent children’s recording group Recess Monkey has set a June 9 release for their fifth studio CD, Field Trip (Monkey Mama, $15.00, run time 41 minutes). A companion piece to Recess Monkey’s 2008 release, Tabby Road, the CD includes material from Recess Monkey’s “Field Trip Recording Session” at which kids in the audience (the group’s most devoted “Monkey-heads”) were recorded singing live, during a Valentine’s Day 2008 Seattle show.

The three members of Recess Monkey are teachers who met while working at the same Seattle school. The trio’s genuine enthusiasm for a grad school project morphed into their 2005 debut release Welcome to Recess Monkey Town. This was followed by another popular (and zoologically correct) hit, Aminal House. The teachers (Jack Forman, Daron Henry, and Drew Holloway) made history with their next release, Wonderstuff, the first double CD children’s album produced from material generated at a kids’ summer camp workshop. Likewise, 2008’s Tabby Road and the newest Recess Monkey album, Field Trip, each came from real life children’s experiences.

Field Trip starts where Tabby Road left off, putting a wacky, fantastical edge on the "everyday lives of kids.” The world of Recess Monkey continues to expand in this album, with a whole new cast of characters: sack lunches that come to life while their owners explore new territory, a brigade of lice that invades a classroom (something the members of Recess Monkey have all encountered as teachers), and even an octopus with a penchant for "knock-knock” jokes.


Field Trip’s music leads off with “Fort,” an up-tempo celebration of the fact that a magical trip is never very far away. With that, the adventures, big and small, begin in earnest (no permission slip needed). There are misty marshmallow fields to explore, a chance to hide away on pirate ship, the adventure of getting lost at a bubble factory, and the long, winding road to the nurse’s refrigerator for an ice pack – made much easier when you're with a good friend. Field Trip is like a sack lunch when you're far from home. Open it up and be greeted with something familiar and comforting: another batch of expertly produced sing-alongs from those Beatles-lovin', shenanigan songsters, Recess Monkey. As Drew Holloway puts it, “There's a giant brownie of sugary pop inside but the whole thing is very new-tritious!”

Field Trip will be available for purchase and further exploration at recessmonkeytown.com, amazon.com, cdbaby.com, pokeypup.com, theAVCafe.com, bigkids.com, and The Land of Nod.
 
FIELD TRIP SONG LIST:
Fort, Marshmallow Farm, Sack Lunch, Knocktopus, New Shoes, Haven’t Got a Pet Yet, Hot Chocolate, Ice Pack, Tiny Telephone, Little Insects Crawling Everywhere (L.I.C.E.), Something Happens in the Teens, Secret Agent Watch, Bubble Factory, Centipede Pirate, Firefly Lullaby.

Tanya Peila and Recess Monkey are giving away a copy of the NEW Field Trip album.
Ways to enter to win:
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Winner will be chosen August 15, 2010. PLEASE make sure you leave an email address where I can get a hold of you! US entries only.

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New Tunes for Back To School

New Tunes for Back To School

By   7:46:00 AM   No comments:

Send your high school and college students back to school with the newest Christian Rock album "The Medicine" from John Mark McMillan .

With comparisons ranging from Springsteen to Yorn, singer/songwriter John Mark McMillan’s music has been described as "gutsy, poetic rock 'n' roll.” The native North Carolinian draws from his Southern, “preader’s kid” roots to create spiritually-minded indie rock that is connecting with mainstream and Gospel music fans.

McMillan describes this project The Medicine) as "portraits of resurrection”

“More than anything, I think The Medicine explores the implications of resurrection in our everyday lives, even the dead places of our lives that need resurrecting,” he continues. “To his own hurt, Jesus, chose to be a part of our world. Why would we pretend that we don’t bring all our love, loss, and insecurity with us into the conversations we call ‘worship’? After all, we don’t serve a God who is unacquainted with grief. He is not surprised by or even unfamiliar with the darkness that can plague a human heart. In fact, he specializes at dealing with that sort of thing.”



John can be found at:
http://www.thejohnmark.com/
http://twitter.com/johnmarkmc
http://www.youtube.com/johnmarkmcmillan
http://www.facebook.com/TheRuckusRoom
http://www.myspace.com/johnmarkmcmillan

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Monkey Music! - Giveaway

Monkey Music! - Giveaway

By   4:26:00 PM   4 comments:

Ashlee is at the age that we call her a monkey. Having to turn chairs on their sides because she likes to climb on them proceeding to the table next!

NYC-based singer/songwriter Meredith LeVande could truly be termed a “Renaissance woman of children’s music.” Meredith not only holds undergraduate degrees in Women’s Studies and English, she also has a master’s degree in music and a law degree! Drawing from all these disciplines for her multi-faceted work with children, Meredith heads up a project with the marvelously mischievous moniker Monkey Monkey Music, with a focus on “putting the child back into children’s music.”

Five years ago Meredith’s debut album, Monkey Monkey Music with Meredith LeVande, became an instant hit with families nationwide, was a Parenting magazine “Pick,” and was in rotation on Sirius Satellite Radio, earning a grassroots reputation as a classic children's recording. Meredith LeVande has, since 2005, devoted herself to performing for children in intimate settings, becoming a favorite among NYC area families and creating a repertoire that has grown organically due to her one-on-one interactions with children of virtually every culture imaginable.

With the new Monkey Monkey Music CD, What Are the Odds?, Meredith has created something remarkable, finding the middle road between baby songs and pop band songs where kids’ lyrics are simply added to music that would otherwise be played for adults. Meredith’s music is not only child-friendly, it’s truly child appropriate, developed with the healthy growth of the young child in mind.

Please visit Monkey Monkey Music with Meredith LeVande at http://monkeymonkeymusic.com/  

Tanya Peila and Meredith LeVande are giving away the NEW Monkey Monkey Music CD, "What Are the Odds?"

Ways to enter to win:
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Winner will be chosen August 1, 2010 (but will not be shipped until the 8/30 release date). PLEASE make sure you leave an email address where I can email your gift certificate to!

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New music!

New music!

By   12:21:00 PM   No comments:

So a couple weeks ago I added some new music to my side bar from this AMAZING artist Jenn Alexander! Have you checked it out yet? Well what are you waiting for! My two fav tracks from her newly released album Better Than Fiction are Eyelashes and Bagels! You can download the album for only $9.99 order order a CD for just $15!!! Be sure to visit her website and let her know what you think of her GREAT music!!!
Here is her website http://www.jennalexandermusic.com/ and her MySpace page as well www.myspace.com/jennalexandermusic

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