Hullabaloo: Blog

I just wrapped up the first episode of the Great Big Super Huge Hullabaloo Adventure Show and posted it for all the world to see. It's a little rough around the edges but I'm ok with that. This isn't meant to be a slick, major-network, high-budget sort of deal.  It's home-made, just like our music. 
With a little luck and a lot more work I believe that I can achieve my goal of creating a little show that is something like Mr.-Rodgers-meets-Bear-Grylls-in-an-episode-of-Flight-of-the-Concords. Yes, it's a lofty goal when you've got a $0 budget, a couple cameras and last year's version of iMovie but those are my favorite kinds of challenges. As Mark Twain said, "Why not go out on a limb. That's where all the fruit is!"
A hundred years ago, when we first started making music for kids, we took a look at what was out there and, with a small handful of exceptions, we were pretty saddened. Mostly, it was big corporations putting out a million variations of the same sugary-sweet, singing [...]

We just received a nice review from Jessica Allen at "And Then There Were Four." Thanks for the kind words Jessica!!
http://giveawaysandlife.blogspot.com/2010/07/hullabaloo-review-and-giveaway.html

A Big thanks to everyone that came out to the San Diego Botanical Gardens Family Fun Night Concert. It was a great crowd and you couldn't ask for a more beautiful setting on a hot summer night. The big surprise of the evening was RAIN!! We sang the Itsy Bitsy Spider and then down came the rain. We sang in the rain right up to the point where we started to worry about getting shocked. Aside from getting a little soaked, it was a great night. We're excited to return on August 26!! I posted some pictures here on the website and on our facebook page.

I got a couple of requests this week from parents that want to create their own family Hullabaloo sing-along. They requested the guitar chords for some of our songs. I typed up all the lyrics and chords for the Tall as a Tree album and posted them on the media section of our website. To get there just click the "media" button to the right and download the Word file.  Enjoy!!

I played at a great birthday party this weekend in Dana Point. The party was for a 6 year old boy and the theme was "Superheroes." My favorite part was the craft they had set up where each kid got to make their own superhero cape. They used colorful pieces of cloth for the cape and decorated it with stick-on stars and letters spelling their names. To top it off they also had paper masks they decorated in the same way. It made me especially glad that I had written Supersuit!