You Know, for Kids

When I first heard that Elena Moon Park, one of the regulars in Dan Zanes 's band for some years now, was coming out with an album of ...

As many public radio stations mentioned at the time, this past July 14 marked the hundredth anniversary of Woody Guthrie's birth . Amo...

The good news first: The fourth album from the Okee Dokee Brothers, the guys who helped bring bluegrass into the modern kindie-music mix,...

As I've mentioned before, it's always especially thrilling to get a great new children's CD from an artist I don't already k...

Back in the anxious days before the arrival of my first son, I remember a work colleague who was already a parent asking me if I had any Dan...

It's not every artist—even in the famously diverse kids'-music field—who can move genre to genre and sound good in every one of them...

As I've mentioned before, I don't feel confident that I'm seeing absolutely everything out there in kids' music, books, etc....

A good deal of the excellent kids’ music I hear these days is uptempo, upbeat, and just generally up. Sure, Recess Monkey will throw in a s...

The new wave of kids’ music has produced a number of fairly established artists by now, and parents can rely on a new album by almost any of...

The all-star-musician benefit concept goes back years, of course, to George Harrison's Bangladesh concert, and a bit later the "D...

There’s no question children’s music has improved leaps and bounds in the past several years, both in overall quality and in the number of a...